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Hahaha, that's frightening and awesome at once.

They're more scared of you than you are of them.

Sexy. Look at her legs all spread.

I have posted the newest piece. Beware nudities!

He's not even kidding.

That's not court-appropriate attire, Ms. Walters! I'll see you in my chambers later!

I forgot about this.

Awesome

Sign ahead says, "Bondage County: next 10 miles".

Man, screw the Jonas Bros.

Never trust Speakrussiantome! She stole my cat!


Nice piece.

Another piece is comin' very soon, and it's got a big one.

...I mean, it's a big one.

The colours are so vivid.

Dude, I borrowed your stapler.

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I'm sorry you're having this bad experience with the reception of the design. But this sort of thing happens in art and design quite a bit, where your intentions have a disconnect with how the audience perceives the work.

In a way, the design is a very bold, solid classic superhero design. The main problem, if you want to call it that, is the plus shaped block of color on the chest. It gives a very feminine look to the neck and shoulder area, especially when the shot is a cropped close-up.

The mixture of an overtly feminine, or simply overly refined element, plus the over-the-top use of bold colors and symbols, pushes the design towards camp which is synonomous with "gayness" for a lot of people. His shaggy hair and intense expression exaggerate this reading.

If you changed the chest pattern or gave him some kind of shoulder pad or something, I think you'd lose a lot of the camp vibe people are picking up on. BTW, I personally don't think the character looks gay, because the gay friends I have would have looks like batman or wolverine or something. But it does look campy to me for the reasons I've laid out.

[/ QUOTE ]I agree with this, but I think the top would actually be fine as is if not for the bands on the arms.

It's really the bands on the arms at the height of the chest bar that creates the appearance an off-the-shoulder sweater or something like that.

it's too bad you can't get rid of that, 'cos then he'd just look like he's wearing a thin tank top.

Most Greek mythic figures were gay, anyway, or at least bi. Them ancient Greeks new how to partay.

That has nothing to do with this character, though. Unless it does.

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...I like cheese. Anyone else like cheese?

I will PM tomorrow, since I need to take screens and now is sleeping time.

I'm not sure what this is.

You better not hijack our shipments of art supplies to the mainland!

Gods-damned pirates.

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You could always *cough* do two versions...

[/ QUOTE ]Sir, you are the King.

I'm going to want to see the originals, personally.

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In regards to original post. I would suggest picking up "Dynamic Anatomy" by Burne Hogarth. A few fitness, fashion, and animal magazines for references. And for quick "warm-ups" just go to a local cafe or coffee shop and quickly draw gesture drawings of people, pets, and/or cars as they go by, etc. Good luck!

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That's not really what I meant by warm up pieces, but thanks for the suggestion. I already own Hogarth's book.

Projectionist should do Canadian Shield so I can be lazy!

I had no idea it was Memorial Day. I'm the worst American ever.


Oh wait, I'm not. That makes sense. I will try to clean up Canadian Shield for this.

Also, I have a Captain America piece, but I don't know if you can use it due to Marvel trademarking.