titankoretech replied to your post: “anomenon submitted: Heroic nudity is great, but for it to work,…”:
I need to draw a female superhero team that uses all of those models :3
Please do! I wanna see that!
Also take a look at full collection of this photoshoot here.
It’s gorgeous and inclusive and shows how diverse athletes at the peak of their form are!
there is nothing inherently liberating in showing skin
there is nothing inherently liberating in covering up
the liberation lies in the choice
RELEVANT.
Repair His Armor
This blog is dedicated to show and change the looks of ridiculous male armors (and other outfits)…
This cracked me up!
No, really, there aren’t any male characters who wear ridiculous, illogical, revealing outfits! None at all!
/sarcasmOh wait, those are power fantasies, so they totally don’t count. It’s not like men are killing themselves because of the high expectations that society sets for them and that are being reinforced by video games… while feminists completely ignore this issue because these are so-called power fantasies, and also, “lol male tears”
What if I told you that it’s possible to do activism without erasing and ridiculing the problems of the opposite group
Wow, someone is grasping at straws here.
Do you have some actual things to say, or you are just going to do the good old “lol ur stupid end of story” way of arguing?
The day these outfits are seen as “default” and the day we need to objectify and sexualize every male character in ALL games/comics/etc possible, only for the sake of female gaze, then your argument would work. But it doesn’t. These are rare cases of silly armor/outfits. Men do not have to deal with this in every damn game they’re playing. They have something called -gasp- variety!
Your argument would also work if male characters were a minority and rarely ever portrayed as main character, but rather as an love interest or something sexy to look at and ONLY THAT. Or, if they ARE main character – they must look sexy, because you’re supposed to drool at them; not wanting to be like them — and they can’t even be on the cover of their own story.
The day I see more of this I’ll be happy, because then we’re treated as equals. But, for now, we’re not.
– Tica
“I found three shirtless men in video games, look at the male gender being oppressed! Sexism is over, y’all!”
For a while, I’ve been trying to find tutorials on drawing and designing armor, but I can never find any. Do you know any good armor designing/drawing tutorials I can use?
I’ve looked through my drawing resources tag, and I haven’t found much in the way of armor tutorials (there’s a few that talk about what breasts look like in armor, you might want to check those out). There was one submission that linked to a blog post by the submitter that talked about designing armor, but the post has since been removed. :
So, I’m asking here. Does anybody know any good tutorials/resources for drawing and designing armor? Since, it’s this blog, if there is anything specifically for women’s armor, that would be pretty good for future reference too. 🙂
Of course, I run a whole blog about female armor!
Let me recommend my armor design and positive examples tags.
Also check out list of related sites, especially armor references on Art-And-Sterf, Repair Her Armor, ria-RHA and Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor.
killerlolita asked:How exactly does covering up a character show that sexy outfits aren’t empowering exactly? That and how does dressing up male characters in sexy outfits making a point?It’d be easy to ask the inverse: how does dressing up female characters in revealing outfits make them empowered?To answer this question we’re going to do an exercise that anyone familiar with the internet can participate in. First: imagine an adorable kitten (if you’re having trouble, Google images is rife with them… like I said: internet). Now, imagine that adorable kitten wielding a weapon (oh hey Google). Are these cats now empowered? Or has the situation gone from visually appealing to funny?That’s what most female character design does: creates a juxtaposition of eye candy that thinks just because it’s started wielding weapons and calling itself tough, suddenly it’s empowered. It isn’t. It’s a cat with a lightsaber.As for how dressing up a male character in clothes usually reserved for their female counterparts makes a point, well, mostly it helps show how ridiculous these outfits (and also the way the women are generally posed) are. We’re so used to seeing our female characters looking (and acting) this way, that it often doesn’t register. It helps get people asking why it’s okay for a woman to go into battle like this, but it’s funny when a man does.-Staci
PREACH!