Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF!?

This is a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, specifically how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling.

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mockeryd submitted:


http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d4x2ww3
I just thought you would find this funny

Love it. XD  I hope she gets hazard pay.

http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d4x2ww3

I just thought you would find this funny

Love it. XD  I hope she gets hazard pay.

Science!

Science on massive breasts!

phantasmiceros submitted:

Perhaps this could be an insight to the reason they all have massive breasts? Or at least how they manage to not fuck up a mission outside of being ogled.

Fighting a lot of sea battles is she?

Pinched

lobs submitted:

There was something really off about this. I’m no pro but I gave it a shot anyway…

And if somehow you liked the anatomy from the first one I leave you with this…

I’d be terrified too Batman!

You gave me a much needed laugh.  Thank you. :)  (Also nice redraw)

artificus submitted:

Hey! I just discovered this blog and LOVE it! Great, great job you do here! ^___^ All I wanted to say is, that there’s one thing I had to think of, when I saw a lot of these pictures, especially the ones where the spine seems to crack. And I’m really suprised nobody else seemed to see the similarity. Remember these guys?

Yay! The worm guys from Men in Black. A lot of heroines here (the ones with a 90° angle-crack in their spine) seem to have bodies like them. Maybe they’re related? ;-)

http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/post/11401431148/you-should-give-her-another-pair-of-legs-and-just

Oh my god they ARE so similar.

Why so scared, girl?

ka-atis submitted:

after seeing all those brilliant edits of this image:

..I just had to make an edit myself too.

No wonder that she is so scared, with that leg. If I woke up seeing my leg turned into that .. strange.. thing, I would have been scared as hell indeed.

The sad part is that that image might actually make more sense than the original.  I love the reactions of the stuffed animals.

rabbitfears submitted:

 (Not sure if this would fit in here) Centaur women done quite on purpose!

Shhhhhh…. don’t give them any ideas!

itchybrownsweater submitted:

Recently my friend bought this Iron Man figure from Five and Below. It’s waist can move all the way around and all the parts are moveable. Needless to say we put it in a boobs and butt pose. 

Naturally. xD  This is going to be the new planking isn’t it?

itchybrownsweater submitted:

Recently my friend bought this Iron Man figure from Five and Below. It’s waist can move all the way around and all the parts are moveable. Needless to say we put it in a boobs and butt pose. 

Naturally. xD  This is going to be the new planking isn’t it?

mynameorsomething submitted:


Hello, goddess of the internet!
I decided to join the fad and try a redraw. Well, a couple of redraws.
And thanks again for making this fabulous website! Such joy you have given to the world.
…And I… I am truly sorry about that second drawing. I think I was having a bit too much fun there… ¬.¬

Love the redraw!  The parody is also so awesome.  And don’t apologize, one cannot have too much fun with this stuff. xD

Hello, goddess of the internet!

I decided to join the fad and try a redraw. Well, a couple of redraws.

And thanks again for making this fabulous website! Such joy you have given to the world.

…And I… I am truly sorry about that second drawing. I think I was having a bit too much fun there… ¬.¬

Love the redraw!  The parody is also so awesome.  And don’t apologize, one cannot have too much fun with this stuff. xD

Hey Ami!

I’m a massive fan of the site but am not yet a member of tumblr, so I popped the gif I made this morning up on an image host, have a squiz: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/4aumb

I hope you dig :D

That’s awesome!  I do definitely dig. :D  Thanks for making this!

madmadcat:

Just a quick redraw of the figure itself more than the actual character. As you can see, I took some  artistic liberties outside the panel to actually see what the WHOLE POSE would look like compared to what we are limited to seeing inside the actual panel. 

Now bear in mind that I am not a professional artist by any means and I’m sure some of the anatomy is off in some way or another, but I did at least attempt to make things look right. 

First things first. I went with the profile pose because with Moon Knight’s head in the shot where it is (at least I assume that’s him), shifting the position to the direction her rear is facing would render the scene a bit questionable since she wouldn’t be facing her opponent offscreen. At least not entirely. Profile shots can be dynamic and sexy. The trick is making sure you don’t get lazy by just doing those. 

Second, I gave the poor girl an actual WAIST. Art, dude… from a woman’s perspective… we do possess organs and they all sit in the same place that they do on every other person. Just because she’s a superhero does not mean she does not require organs to live. At least not last time I checked… Also nixed the swayback a bit. Repeat after me, kids. Ms. Marvel is not a horse. Ms. Marvel is not a horse. Ms. Marvel is not a horse.

We clear on that? Yes? Good! Let’s move on.

Hopefully I did a decent job of turning those boobs back into boobs instead of sweater zeppelin missiles. I swear, they look like they’re going to launch out of her chest.

And then I gave myself ideas -snerk- enter the tactical TATA missiles issued to each and every superheroine upon donning the outfit. That’s why they can wear such skimpy clothes!

It makes a lot of sense actually.  If your boobs will fly off every fight, you’d want to be wearing thin fabric, both to facilitate their launch, and so it wouldn’t cost too much to replace.  Of course, you’d still have to wear something.  After all, if you went into battle with your breasts exposed, it’d be SCANDALOUS.