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I get a lot of questions about what Frank would look like if he were “normal,” and while I’m not exactly sure what that means, I’m assuming maybe they want to know what he would look like if he was like…healthy? I’d say “not a crystal meth addict,” but I think a lot of Frank’s…Franky-ness has more to do with his upbringing and general family and genetic history than drugs, although being a tweaker probably doesn’t help.
Anyway, I’ve tried drawing a “normal” dogfrank, but he still ends up looking weird because he’s still a giant hairless wrinkly dogthing. But here is a “normal” humanfrank. Even healthy, he’s still not a great looking dude. With a healthier skin tone his piebald features are more obvious, and without his sunken cheeks and premature face wrinkles he kinda looks like he’s 12 due to his weak chin. I thought about giving him a five o’clock shadow to make him look older, but let’s be honest - Frank probably can’t grow more than a wispy pedostache. Not sure why I changed his haircut, I guess I just wanted to see what he’d look like without the mohawk.
And I’m finished!! First attempt EVER at doing a background. After many tutorials, reference pictures, and do-overs, I am finally satisfied. [:
Graduation tomorrow. Goodnight.
-Josephine
Nice job! Really good for a first attempt on a tablet!
phoetiquette asked: size and representation in Shrek
phoetiquette asked: What about Fiona from Shrek? I know she isn’t a Disney character, but does she partially fit the bill of a fat princess, or does she not count b/c she starts off thin, or because her fatness is part of being an “ugly” ogre, etc?——————————————————I’m not sure what the “what about” refers to- main, fat leads? To be clear, I don’t deny that it’s possible to scour the last 4-5 decades of children’s media and find a handful of fat leads, but their limited presence does not negate the fact that fat people are vastly under and misrepresented in media. No matter how positive of a representation Fiona is, it doesn’t even matter because she is one character in a sea of characters that are otherwise generally a fairly uniform (small) size.
As far as Fiona goes, I’m of several minds. At least this franchise has sequels that were nearly as popular as the original so it’s less of a “no one sees it tack on”, but in the first movie, yeah, I don’t think it counts much because she spends 95% of the movie looking like a generic pretty princess.
My second “meh” feeling about her and characters like her is that I find the messages in those movies to often not go much beyond a surface-level feel-good. The movie does not teach us that all sizes are beautiful; it teaches us that Shrek is considered ugly by everyone, and Fiona is considered ugly by everyone, yet in spite of their ugliness they love each other because love (and happiness) isn’t about appearance.
The message is never really, “You can be fat and beautiful” even though we end up sort of interpretting it that way, as do the characters at times, but I think there’s a difference. I get really tired of fat characters always being props for the “beauty on the inside” messages because isn’t that what society is always telling fat people 99% of the time to begin with, that they’re only beautiful on the inside, that for someone to love them they need to show personality because their looks are never going to cut it, that only the magical transformative powers of love will make someone think their body is wonderful?
What I would really like is a character that is not treated, or feels, like they are ugly just because they are fat. Someone who does not need some magic fairy or trickery in order for someone to fall in love with them “despite” their fatness. Fat and beautiful- on the outside. If that makes sense
~originally a reply, reposted by request~
OBJECTION!!
Shrek is a parody of the fairytales we grew up with. Shrek, normally a story’s villain, is the hero and all of the other characters and how they interact is Dreamworks making a movie about all the jokes and flaws from fairytales while still adhering to the basic structure of one and paying homage to them. Fiona is a “generic pretty princess” because that’s the part that she’s playing, the Princess that Needs Saving. What the movie does is turn it around by making her a person with desires and flaws of her own and equal to the other characters in terms of development. Her “curse” is at first considered by her to be the worst thing in the world because she becomes and ogre and ogres are unwanted and a danger and ugly and etc. It’s only after her meeting Shrek and traveling with him that she realizes that ogres are not the monsters she once thought and how she’s probably the most comfortable with Shrek and Donkey as they don’t judge her or admonish her for not being the perfectly behaved and graceful princess character from storybooks.
I liked that in the end she chose to stay an ogre, her “true form” because that was who she was and when she was happiest with herself and felt accepted. She’s obviously not born an ogre as seen by her parents in the sequels. The average viewer was to expect her “true form” to be human, but Fiona isn’t exactly comfortable with being “human.”
I take issue with the fact that no one considers Shrek and Fiona beautiful and they are ugly because ugly people can only be with ugly people because ugly. Shrek says to her in wonder after Fiona cries out, “I was supposed to be beautiful!” that, “You are beautiful!” He honestly thinks she’s gorgeous physically as well as being in love with her. Donkey thinks she’s pretty. The people that showed up at their wedding that they are actually friends with never point at her and call her hideous. Fiona is beautiful to her husband and her friends physically as well as internally. In the end she is considered beautiful on the outside.
Disclaimer: I am not saying your interpretation isn’t right or wrong per say. I agree that Fiona is one in many, and in a comedy at that.
I stumbled across “Magdalena” just now, and at first I was considering reading it. It’s not that often you find a comic focusing on battle nuns, after all. Our niche is a small one.
But after giving it a glance over, I’m not sure I could stomach it. It’s just so… American. In that tacky superhero-y, overly-sexualized, cheap shock way. I like ridiculous self-deprecating ‘sploitation genres sometimes, but this comic (like many other mainstream US comics I’ve tried to read) doesn’t seem to realize what a parody it is of itself.
It reminds me of my initial side-eye reaction when I heard about Helena Bertinelli, a superhero who I would have loved to associate with (I am also an Italian-American raised Catholic superhero!) but for her horrendous costume:
Auuuugh it’s so tacky it makes me want to claw my eyes out. And again, this is a character who’s supposed to be a devout Catholic. (And as if a rich Mafia-familiy Italian girl would let herself be seen in something so unfashionable, pls.) I’m tempted to try giving her a Mafia!Nun redesign someday.
The only other comic about warrior Catholic ladies I know of is “Warrior Nun Arelea:”
The creator himself lampooned the ridiculous outfits by having a character in the comic buy a book called “Warrior Nun Areola.”
It just makes me kind of annoyed that anytime religious women (particularly nuns) are shown in comics, they have to be dressed in something more akin to “adult costumes” than modest clothing. I’m not asking for realism here, I mean… look at what MY nuns wear:
Putting “nuns” in bikinis isn’t exciting or new, it’s extremely uncreative and completely defeats the purpose of making a religiously devout character. It reeks of laziness and a desire for cheap sex appeal. Just… stop it please.
That’s not Huntress’ original costume, It was updated to look like that not too long ago. While I agree that how the women are dressed and drawn is the first thing I look at when it comes to comics, I think you would like 90’s Huntress. Especially the Huntress of Huntress: year one. They actually pay attention to her Italian heritage ( and how being Italian and Catholic are more Blended than separated like later on in her comics) and she designs her own costume. I think early Birds of Prey also has her in a much more appropriate outfit for the type of work she does. No Man’s Land also has her dressed as Batman in the beginning which is possibly the only good part of that storyline.
I guess that isn’t really going to change your mind or anything. As a Huntress fan, I always thought she was kind of cool though. Really disappointed with what DC has done with her. I can’t even read her newer stuff despite being drawn by Marcus To.
- Book!Cat: Ned, you must go to Kings Landing to help Robert and find out what happened to Jon Arryn!
- HBO!Cat: Ned, stay here with me!
- Book!Cat: <during the King in the North scene> Robb, let's trade for the girls and sue for peace. You can't bring your father back.
- HBO!Cat: <during the same scene> ::silent::
- Book!Cat: Look, Robb, I know you don't want to negotiate with the Lannisters but you have to give them something. Okay, those terms aren't exactly what I was thinking but you're the King.
- HBO!Cat: ::strangely missing from the negotiation table::
- Book!Cat: I don't care what you say, Robb, I'm not going home I'm staying right here by any means necessary. Also if you're going to negotiate with Balon Greyjoy you shouldn't give up our only hostage.
- HBO!Cat: You can't trust Balon! I want to go home!
- Book!Cat: Trying to forge an alliance with Renly Baratheon could be a good idea.
- HBO!Cat: Okay, Robb, I'll go negotiate with Renly, but I really want to go home.
- Book!Cat: <<discusses strategy and tactics with Renly>>
- HBO!Cat: <<gets dismissed to her tent by Renly>>
- Book!Cat: Releases Jaime after hearing about Rickon and Bran's "deaths", hoping to get back Sansa, who besides being her beloved daughter, is also a useful political piece (as Tywin *and* Robb would later note) and at that moment Robb's heir
- HBO!Cat: Releases Jaime because all her children are held captive and she wants them back
- Book!Robb: Forgives his mother because he has also done something "dishonorable"
- HBO!Robb: LOL HOUSE ARREST
here is another one of these things
I like the way Frank’s design looks here, although I think he looks a little too cartoony in comparison to the other characters
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”Beauty and love are fleeting and have no meaning. Survival has meaning. Power has meaning.”
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