Inking on sketch layer all along.

I read a very interesting discussion (unfortunately can't remember where) about the damage that sexualized-as-default can do to narrative—the bottom line was that when your female characters are constantly showing boob and butt to the viewer, repeatedly contorted or in outfits that don't fit the setting or aesthetic,…

No need to be snide.

I'm not a huge fan of the redesign (but I think it's more the art style; I like the concept!) but goddamn it's good to meet someone who shares my thoughts on Seven. As you said, she's beautiful, but heck, I'd say her outfit was so pointlessly titillating it made me think she was less sexy! Her breasts look terrible…

I would lay the difference in the face and body types almost exclusively at the feet of different art styles and interests. Emma Frost, since you used that as an example, goes from a line drawing (note the cheekbone line there as well—when used for women in comics, usually indicating age or a sort of austere…

Forgot to actually link my monitor stand. This one:

Forgot to actually link my monitor stand. This one:

I have a glass and metal desk that I use a clamp-style stand for dual monitors with no trouble. The only precaution I took was a piece of cardboard to keep the screw-tops (plastic, but still) from touching the glass. Haven't had any problems and I've had this setup (and removed it for LAN parties) for at least three…

I have a glass and metal desk that I use a clamp-style stand for dual monitors with no trouble. The only precaution…

My "problem" with this game was that I basically whip-kicked my way through the entire campaign. It was just too much fun!

Those would be Kelly Reemtsen's pieces of art (and the fun discussion surrounding them!):

William Walker, aka the Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny (and no one can tell me that is not a fantastic title for a film).

Definitely gets under the skin. What an...eerily disconcerting short. Wonderfully shot and paced.

Good god! I have been trying to find the name of Bloody Roar for years! I played it once, years ago, when I was living in France (there's actually a number of things I've had a hell of time finding again because they're all vague teenage memories whose names don't translate in any relative fashion). I didn't even…

Age of Mythology. It's gone from the good of days of reinstalling (and likely, buying a new copy because the disk was so scratched) to simply leaving it permanently there in Steam, but about once a year, I get the urge to pound in another twenty hours.

I know nothing about wrestling or the UFC, but damn if these two haven't gotten some of the most sincere laughs I've had in a while.

Tawdry detective stuff is my vice, and Code Zero sounds...quite enjoyable. I'll have to check it out, thank you for the recommendation!

I was actually reading the Quartermain stuff from Haggard recently! Kind of in the same vein...it's interesting to go back to that sort of writing. Even the stuff that was quite "progressive" for the time has a very different feel to it in terms of style and literary norms. Fun stuff!

I am certainly enjoying it, but it's a) a relatively dense book, so I could definitely see setting it down and just not picking it back up, and b) heavy on the politics and social intrigue, but without most of the action rompiness that is usually connoted by that in today's media. (Ie, it's definitely not a Grisham…

*cough* A bit ashamed to admit it on a lovely place like i09, bit I'm (finally!) reading The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin. I've meant to for years and years, but it always got pushed out by something else!

To be honest, it always depresses me talking about him because...yeah. But Ares was always one of my favorites from...anything, just from a childhood favorite standpoint, and I figured he should be included! /o/