Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF!?

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dutifullychaoticfox asked: I remember reading on this bog a while back that there was a piece of software that modeled human bodies, and didn't let you rubberize the spines, making sure that everything was anatomically reasonable. I'm sorry that I can't seem to find it, do you know what I'm taking about? It's a thing right? Pls help! I want to make sure that I don't get bad habits and start contributing to the problem!

Can anybody help them with this?

bonzai-bunny submitted:
“the anatomy is so bad i can barely focus on how ugly that outfit is
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(From Catwoman 1,000,000, DC Comics)
In the distant future there is a Catwoman: part cat, part boobs, all rubber.

bonzai-bunny submitted:

the anatomy is so bad i can barely focus on how ugly that outfit is

(From Catwoman 1,000,000, DC Comics)

In the distant future there is a Catwoman: part cat, part boobs, all rubber. 

loloraturasopranerd submitted:

I loved the Avengelyne redraw rzabeth submitted recently, and it inspired me to do one of my own.

A little Wikipedia-ing revealed that the model they used for Avengelyne was Cathy Christian, (also an official Vampirella model), and the comic was mostly published in the ‘90s. So I tried to keep the likeness to her really strong (she actually has the tiny nose! It’s incredible!) and translate the costume into more of a ‘90s streetwear aesthetic. In a lot of the model shots Cathy wears a crushed velvet crop top with a little jacket that is sooooo '90s demon slayer that my little Buffy-loving heart couldn’t resist keeping it.

Out of Liefeld’s design I ended up keeping the vambraces (badass), and the ripped fishnets, which I reinterpreted as actual stockings under shorts, because who has the time to keep pulling up thigh-highs in battle.

I love it, and I especially love how you even did research into the character and looked up the cover model to base her look on!  Also thank you for taking us through your thought process in choosing the outfit and what you kept and what you changed :3

fetus-cakes submitted:
“The latest chapter of We Never Learn/We can’t Study (depend on the translation) has quite the boobs and butt pose for Ogata
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Spring is here and the Escher Girls are sprouting from the ground and their boobs and butts poses...

fetus-cakes submitted:

The latest chapter of We Never Learn/We can’t Study (depend on the translation) has quite the boobs and butt pose for Ogata

Spring is here and the Escher Girls are sprouting from the ground and their boobs and butts poses are blooming!

Little Rat submitted:
“A cineplex in germany is showing old horror movies with the title for the event being “Die Nacht des guten Geschmacks” (the night of good taste).
The above picture is the movie poster used in the promotional video they show...

Little Rat submitted:

A cineplex in germany is showing old horror movies with the title for the event being “Die Nacht des guten Geschmacks” (the night of good taste).
The above picture is the movie poster used in the promotional video they show together with regular movie trailers. The movie title is “Schlock das Bananenmonster” (Schlock the banana monster). The woman in the picture says “Oh! I think King Kong schlocks me”. Or at least thats the best translation I can provide O.o

Apparently her boobs are filled with helium.
Her expression is rather blank, too.
I don’t know what happened to her right leg. Where is the thigh? If it is hidden behind her body, the visible part should be farther to the right or maybe tilted at a different angle. The gorillas right arm is completely hidden, but I don’t think it could support her right leg this way. The longer I look at this picture, the more it looks like the leg is growing out of her butt.

I don’t know anything about the actual movie, but I’m not sure this poster was the best choice to go with the title.

I mean given what “Schlock” means here in terms of films, I think that poster works perfectly. 

From @shattered-earth (via Twitter)

One of my numerous pet peeves I see a lot from people who always say they love boobs, they really love boobs. If you love ‘em so much maybe try… looking at them…

original tweet here (re-posted w/ permission): https://twitter.com/Shattered_Earth/status/982816851741704192

a good tip to keep in mind if you like drawing boobs (which is totes cool)

fetus-cakes submitted:
“HUGE spoilers for Promised Neverland for those who want to read it
I’m not sure if this counts, since that’s a legit child-eating demon, so she(?) is meant to be terrifying and otherworldly (from Promised Neverland 78)
”
I’ll...

fetus-cakes submitted:

HUGE spoilers for Promised Neverland for those who want to read it  

I’m not sure if this counts, since that’s a legit child-eating demon, so she(?) is meant to be terrifying and otherworldly (from Promised Neverland 78)

I’ll allow it just for the humor value, but yeah it’s a demon monster with 6 breasts so… altho maybe it’s just an elaborate costume to make us THINK it’s a demon monster so we don’t notice when they make off with the fruit that they swiped from the grocery store behind them O:

cybershocker455 submitted:

Olivia from Fire Emblem Warriors

http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=692970|9

This is basically a 3d rendering of her art from Awakening: http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Olivia

There are a few more from Fire Emblem worth showing (or not).

Sure!  Show away!

Also, I actually really like the more stylized drawn art better.  Something about the Warriors one makes the outfit look even weirder to me, like I know in both she has a weird hole at the back of her pants and she’s wearing a swimsuit bottom, but I find the bottom image looks niftier to me.  I think she looks cool in both tho, I can’t get over the giant hole in her pants tho xD

dnekrufi submitted:

Persona 3/5 Dancing Moon/Star Night feminine armors

Atlus’ sexualization of its female cast with questionable “armor” costumes in its upcoming twin games earned a mild backlash from fans. One Reddit user Satanael_95_A attempted to “fix” the P5 side, the results are quite good IMHO.

P.S. The “high-cut armors” are originally in Persona 3 FES/Portable released in 2007/2009, but these look more unsightly when the characters are scaled to realistic proportion from the cartoonish one.

I like the redraw/fix!  As one of the commenters said in the reddit thread, they kept the midriff showing thing while also making the clothing more interesting, more unique to each character, and less ridiculous.  It also shows that you can have interesting & sexy character and costume design without out-of-place swimsuit armor that jars the audience out of immersion.

mochako778 submitted:

…I’m just trying to find manga to read. Is it her knees? Her boobs? Both fused together????? What is going on.

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