Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one’s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades.
Words like ‘full’, ‘round’ and even ‘pert’ creep into the narrative, until the writer has to go and have a cold shower and a lie down.
Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialized buyer.
Oh well, all right. The point that must be made is that although Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan would look quite stunning after a good bath, a heavy-duty manicure, and the pick of the leather racks in Woo Hun Ling’s Oriental Exotica and Martial Aids on Heroes Street, she was currently quite sensibly dressed in light chain mail, soft boots, and a short sword.
All right, maybe the boots were leather. But not black.
Rincewind looked sourly at the procession. As the druids spread out around a great flat stone that dominated the centre of the circle he couldn’t help noticing the attractive if rather pale young lady in their midst. She wore a long white robe, a gold torc around her neck, and an expression of vague apprehension.
inkformyblood submitted:
I don’t know quite who this lady is meant to be but she isn’t matching up with any of the descriptions I found of the two female characters in this book (The Light Fantastic), particularly as one is described as being dressed sensibly in light chain mail which that is not.
What Josh Kirby’s Discworld illustrations are famous for is that they’re anything but faithful to the descriptions from the books. He went a step further with the cover for Sourcery, where similarly underclad lady is shown front and center, not just on the side:
And this time there’s no doubt which character it’s supposed to be: Conina, the barbarian hairdresser. The only clothes she’s explicitly described wearing in the book are a thief suit and a flowery dress. While she does have to, at one point, join a harem where every lady has a notably skimpy costume, the book never mentions an outfit change.
Sir Terry Pratchett was diplomatically polite regarding Kirby’s own vision of his novels, though I don’t believe he ever claimed the illustrations to be accurate until Paul Kidby took over as the official Discworld artist, after Kirby’s death in 2001.
~Ozzie
lightlaurein submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d):
Doing it right and then doing it very, very wrong. This game… All done by different artists for the same game, but the majority of the characters/cards are definitely on the lesser side of having clothing.
I’m on mobile so I can’t fill out a bingo card, but I’m pretty sure I’d probably get a bingo, or 5 ways to bingo with one more space. I mean, you have the metal thong, magic metal bikini…
In our experience, Legend of the Cryptids for every one decently armored woman usually delivers a ton of painfully generic ones in armor bikinis. Hell, they can’t even do a dude in sexy armor without ruining it with female boobs and butts all around him.
It’s pretty amazing they felt the need to actually make the word “seductive” a part of Leona’s name, to be sure you don’t confuse her with, say, a guardian angel. As we all know, bikini armor so totally informs us that a character is a skilled seductress and no-one else within the same franchise could possibly have the same dress code.
That game is a treasure trove of “creative” sexualized lady design.
~Ozzie
lightlaurein submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d):
Doing it right and then doing it very, very wrong. This game… All done by different artists for the same game, but the majority of the characters/cards are definitely on the lesser side of having clothing.
I’m on mobile so I can’t fill out a bingo card, but I’m pretty sure I’d probably get a bingo, or 5 ways to bingo with one more space. I mean, you have the metal thong, magic metal bikini…
In our experience, Legend of the Cryptids for every one decently armored woman usually delivers a ton of painfully generic ones in armor bikinis. Hell, they can’t even do a dude in sexy armor without ruining it with female boobs and butts all around him.
It’s pretty amazing they felt the need to actually make the word “seductive” a part of Leona’s name, to be sure you don’t confuse her with, say, a guardian angel. As we all know, bikini armor so totally informs us that a character is a skilled seductress and no-one else within the same franchise could possibly have the same dress code.
That game is a treasure trove of “creative” sexualized lady design.
~Ozzie
Here’s a find for you guys
phieluminando submitted:
In portuguese: “Advanced drawing lessons”
“Drawing female warriors” (guerreiras)“
Who knew that drawing something as “creative” as a contorted red-haired barbarian warrior lady in a battle bikini would require advanced lessons?
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!
~Ozzie
Here’s a find for you guys
phieluminando submitted:
In portuguese: “Advanced drawing lessons”
“Drawing female warriors” (guerreiras)“
Who knew that drawing something as “creative” as a contorted red-haired barbarian warrior lady in a battle bikini would require advanced lessons?
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!
~Ozzie
@nightmarelyre submitted:
While Rebecca’s cheerleader outfit seems like a terrible idea during a bio toxic zombie outbreak, I think we can all agree that Billy is empowered for the job
@countaile submitted:
I’ve logged on into my steam account, got a link to the new Resident Evil’s pre-order page with this picture in it, and… May we discuss how refreshing it is to see a girl getting a normal (albeit a tad short) cheer leader costume, and a beefy dude getting this ridiculous belt bikini for his impressive pecs? I don’t really follow this franchise, but if there’s more of this in it, it may be worth following.
While it is nice that the RE guys remembered there is a definite demand for empowered men, it’s kind of telling that they had to give him that over the top gun to remind people “just because he’s sexy, doesn’t mean he’s not badass”… meanwhile Rebecca is literally Capcom’s cheerleader and merchandise model.
– wincenworks