(01-14-2014, 12:22 AM)Hammerskjold Wrote: Who exactly is the 'someone' you're referring to? The artist who did the design? The creative director who commissioned it? The CEO who approved the funding? Who, exactly? Be specific here, you won't hurt anyone's feelings.
If it was another 'someone', or some vague disembodied concept of someone that you were referring to, then by all means. Please, clarify it for my curiosity.
I didn't mean anyone in specific, no. I meant to remark sarcastically on the fact that the sorceress does not appear to be anything at all, except perhaps a literal rack, off which you can hang T'n'A. This was obviously the artist's choice - the comment referred to what he was trying to depict in this illustration, not about his motivations. The sentence could read "If the dude above is an epitomized Knight, what is this epitomizing, someone's mommy issues with a staff and a hat? It's clearly not an epitomized sorceress."
As for who I would talk to about it, about whose designs they are? Kamitami.
Quote:I don't know her, but she's not a nobody. As best as I know.
(cosplayer)
There are other examples, safe for work examples, when the incantations of Google + Cosplay + Dragon Crown Sorc is recited.
TBH, I'm surprised by how few examples I find when I google the variations. There are four or five examples, and some different pics from the same cosplayer/photoshoot, then google runs dry. You can find someone interested in cosplaying just about anything, but I stand by the statement that is not generally a character women identify with.
As for the rest... I have little enough to say about the overall art style. It looks lush and colourful. But it is possible to be both a great artist, and paint sexist portrayals of women. There is absolutely no contradiction in that, nor have I suggested there is, so I'm just going to leave that entire "he put his time in, look how awesome an artist he is" stuff aside. It isn't the point.
Quote:It's called Feminine Charms, sir. It exists in 3d as well. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like badly done bikini armor, or overly gratuitous fanservice.
How you can write that sentence, and defend that depiction at the same time is simply a mystery to me. No woman can actually make that pose, and anyone who tried wouldn't look charming and feminine, they'd look like a contortionist. That's only "feminine charms" if that means "displaying as much boobs and butt at the same time as possible." If this passes the test for overly gratuitous fanservice, what is it that fails?
This is to say nothing of the *jiggle physics*.
-Jester