This artwork looks like an attempt at imitating Chris Sanders style of pinup, but with Uncanny Valley effect instead of his deep understanding of anatomy and character appeal.
Oh, the hubris it takes to draw every single female character as contorted fish-faced… thing with giant boobs and ass and then insist that it’s the only right way to design cartoony women, because females be sexy. And also that male cartoony characters should be all angular and ‘heroic’-looking, because that’s somehow inherently masculine. Then to present way more diversity among men anyway.
I saw this magazine in tesco and stared at it for a good minute just going ??? This is the cover image they chose for a magazine about the *essential* things for fantasy artists to learn, and doesn’t that just say it all?
We featured this magazine on the blog before, but it never got bingo’ed! Now that’s been rectified.
This design honestly looks like when you’re drawing the figure to figure out pose and what not, and end up putting way too much detail into it that you like. And then you feel bad for having to put clothes on top of your hard work, so you just kinda… stick some liquid metal to the essential areas, add some small decorative pieces, and call it good.
The anatomy tips in this book may or may not be any good, but personally I have limited trust for people who promote their artist advice books with generic bingo-scoring bikini armor ladies.
Oh, the self-demonstratingly inept “How to draw…” books. They are an artform of their own, just not in the sense their authors intended. This sort of handbook is special enough to get its own tag now: bad drawing guides.
@eschergirls also has a tag devoted to such books – enter only if you’re not afraid of terrible advice for drawing anatomy. And this particular cover was featured in there too. No wonder, seeing how this lady’s pose is quite literally a zigzag and how dislocated her head is. Hell, the sketch on the left illustrates clearly that her neck was drawn to grow straight out of her shoulder!
Oh, the self-demonstratingly inept “How to draw…” books. They are an artform of their own, just not in the sense their authors intended. This sort of handbook is special enough to get its own tag now: bad drawing guides.
@eschergirls also has a tag devoted to such books – enter only if you’re not afraid of terrible advice for drawing anatomy. And this particular cover was featured in there too. No wonder, seeing how this lady’s pose is quite literally a zigzag and how dislocated her head is. Hell, the sketch on the left illustrates clearly that her neck was drawn to grow straight out of her shoulder!
