Platypus of Truth

  I fed this into Staryai and here's what jumped out: My "skills of an artist"? You decide.

  Femme Fatales, femme formidable  What are the differences between the rippling muscles and bulging buttocks of the nude men of Sword and Sorcery and their female counterparts? Warhammer has attempted to solve the problem in their Age of Sigmar and Warcry lines. It seems as if their goal is to render their War Queens along the exact same lines: equally clothed, muscular, and posed. Their Chaos warriors are equally bulky and armored and their screaming sibarites are androgynous. Dark Elf witches now even dare to be ugly occasionally.  Artists have been drawn to both the sexual and asexual beauty of the human form since time out of mind. Since the advent of ethical monotheism, society has often sought to censor or control this tendency. As a result, expressions of nudity in art have often found their outlet in ancient myth and the fantastic. Michelangelo turned to Scripture, Titian to Grecco-Roman Myth. The Pre-Raphaelites added Medieval legend. Gauguin and Picasso looked ...

 Disney, Conan, Tolkien today. You'd be surprised to see how hard it is to find one of the most iconic images from Conan the Barbarian. I had to pair a grainy still with two separate references. The old Disney backgrounds are masterpieces of Fantasy art. 

 

 

 In spite of mistakes, I couldn't even have attempted these a year ago. Much tabacco has passed into the spittoon since Inktober.