A few images

TwiceOnThursdays wrote:

shadar wrote:

Agent00Soul wrote:

fats wrote: another good item of artwork from artgerm



Fats

Wonder Woman is often pictured as flying in a different posture from the standard lying flat, arms forward position isn't she?

Yes, very often portrayed that way. Not sure why artists see her like that, unless the assumption is that she kind of jumps and only flies a bit or slowly.

In the early days, she could only jump or use her invisible plane. Controlled falling.

Kryptonians can maintain Mach 6 (or whatever) at low altitude. That takes some streamlining and the ability to shrug off some serious heating from air friction. Funny they never talked about the shockwaves, which would be destructive and dangerous at low altitude.

WW was always more into floating on air currents or whatever.

Yeah, originally, like Superman, WW could not fly.

in the late 50's she gained the ability to glide on air currents, and I think that's where the varied positions of her flying started.

When Perez rebooted her post-Crisis she could just fly naturally.

I think that Supergirl suffers a bit from "make her like Superman", so artists put in in Superman-like flying poses.

WW is her own thing, and I think artists pose her in different positions as she's a woman along with her history. Poor Supergirl gets hand-me-downs.

Perez is also famous for little details, and though I haven't read him talking about it, I do think he purposely used non-Superman-like flying poses for her. I think he laid down some of the DNA for how people draw WW.

I really love the first image, something about the joyful flying, the bare feet, and the skirt.





This one is awkward, but I think it shows how Perez was trying to keep her w/ unique positions while flying.



And I included this one simply because every woman in the picture is using different body language to fly, and it tends to make sense too ... look at Dove "gliding" vs Stargirl vs Supergirl using a classic Superman pose.... And I would NOT want to piss off Wonder Woman here.

It's one of the things I always liked about Perez, different body types, hair styles, body language. Oh, and giving Wasp a different costume in almost every issue ...

(Also shows how Perez style changed. I really like how he drew Supergirl in this period.)

I notice The Bulleteer in the bottom right. Thought she was a one-and-done character.

You can almost hear the squeal of tortured steel as that crowbar bends...

"Don't forget your mask, dear..."

A hastily interrupted evening.

shadar wrote: You can almost hear the squeal of tortured steel as that crowbar bends...

Well isn't that just GREAT!

She destroyed the one piece of American-made steel left on the entire planet.

On the freakin' fourth of July weekend, no less.

I suppose if she keeps twisting it around enough, she can make the letters spell out EASE SLUT. Which would serve her right.

Captain America has a girlfriend who can keep up with him. But who (or what) is she really?

An interesting hiking companion in Colorado. Back in the day. When I lived there.

A Valkyrie playing with lightning...

Since I liked this style, I went looking around and found a big library ... with this

I really like this drawing of Supergirl (click on it for full size image)...

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Prince Harry's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Chelsey Davy.

She is, of course, secretly a Velorian. Influencing and advising future royal leaders is well within her job description:

Harley Quinn in disguise... she cleans up nicely.

In the AU, we have Vendorian steel, made via a special process only the Vendorians have perfected. It uses a rare alloy not found on Earth called Xinitite.

It is so strong that a beam the size of your thumb could hold a skyscraper up. Beams the size of spaghetti are laced together to form the structure of massive star ships. The downside is that when it's under stress, it heats up at the stress points, even to incandescence.

Normally its completely unbreakable and essentially unbendable. The forces required would be astronomical. The key word is: normally.

Jinky Coronado is a Philippine artist with an interesting point of view. She's a lovely woman in her own right, but she's developed a character style that is quite distinctive.

Not that anyone would find it interesting to watch her characters put up wallpaper.



Or a drawing of the artist herself at work:

shadar wrote: Jinky Coronado is a Philippine artist with an interesting point of view. She's a lovely woman in her own right, but she's developed a character style that is quite distinctive.

Jinky has had quite a lengthy career at this point. I always enjoyed how she put herself and her friends into her stories.

A great image (tweaked a little by me) that I believe is from Final Fantasy.

This would make a great cover for a genre book.

Shadar

Who is JOCA?

Title says it all

imgur.com/gallery/o7dCTez

Leticia Rocha, model and ring girl. 19 yrs

fats wrote:

j2001 wrote: Title says it all

imgur.com/gallery/o7dCTez

and for those who don't want to go to Imgur here is the pic



Fats

They also could have just gone back three pages in this thread.

This BTW, is Coco Ho, from ESPN's 2014 "The Body" issue. And if you enter that into google, you'll find some more really nice pictures ....

Also, to make this post relevant, here is Alyssa Loughran cosplaying as Ms. Marvel. (Her Instagram is full of awesome.)