Biev wrote:I know this isn't the critique forum, so you can disregard this if you like, but here is my observation and I think it's pretty important. For a site called boobies ahoy, there is a surprising lack of body curves. I don't mean this to sound too harsh, but when I saw the current picture on the main page, I thought those two were guys. It was only after I read the names at the bottom and noticed that the little black rectangle was meant to suggest a bra, that I realized they were female. Your characters are very blocky and flat, and that makes them look more masculine than feminine. In the recent updates, the only page I saw that showed boobs (or a character that looked feminine) was
this one and I'm thinking you must have had a model of some sort (which is good - you should do it more. It makes for good practice.)
no offense taken whatsoever. i had never even thought of this possibility, but it's interesting to me.
i can see why you'd think wilhelm would be a man... she's a butch lesbian, can't really make her any girlier or it will defy her character. *shrugs* just character design, i guess. it's kind of a running joke that she gets mistaken for a man... because the girl she's based on does. clover does the exact same thing just a few pages into the comic.
kind of surprised me you thought clover was a guy too though... but maybe it shouldn't surprise me THAT much seeing as i designed her without boobs. the main characters are based on myself and my best friend... and i'm not so sad to say that i really have no boobs to speak of. but i'm still a girl, lol. i guess i just wanted to have all sorts of body types, seeing as clover was based on myself if i had given her big boobs it would be like saying i'm not proud of my body type and furthering the image that any girls with an A cup should feel inadequate.
i'm guessing that you're not a lesbian(which obviously make up the majority of my fanbase)... i don't know if this is specific to lesbians or what, but i've actually received a lot of praise on that aspect of my characters. from the info i've received, a lot of girls prefer a handful than double Ds. however, i like boobs of all shapes and sizes (so nothing against anyone with DDs), i just wish that people were happy with what they were born with. it's sad to me that people actually get breast augmentation surgery to feel better about themselves. so whether my readers can tell or not, this is the reasoning behind my character design.
but aside from all that, i do have captain lala... who has very large boobs (because the person she's based off does). *shrugs*
i really respect your opinion though, so thanks for that. i hope this cleared up some of my thought process though. as far as hips and body curves... i'll agree that's something i need to work on. so thanks
oh also though, i actually didn't use a reference for that picture. i just spent time on it... heh. there's a difference, no?
