[David C. Matthews]

Work like this… wherein a girl with a "normal" figure is morphed into a muscle-babe… is actually more impressive to me than a pic wherein an already-buffed woman is simply made bigger. I like the technique.

[David C. Matthews]

Great job on Thundra, Dave.  Reminds me of the commission you did for me back in '98 of the female Thor that you did for me.  😎

Wow… now there's another one I'd forgotten about, and I haven't come across it in my old files (yet). Is there any way you can get a scan of it to post on this board?

[David C. Matthews]

OMG, talk about coincidences! I found this sketch on a Zip disk just the other day… I was commissioned (through LH-Art) to do this back in 1998. I'd almost forgotten about it…

[David C. Matthews]

Thus…

Deena:  5' 3'" to 5' 6"

Dyna, Level 1:  6' 2" to 6' 5"
Dyna, Level 2:  7' 1" to 7' 4"

and Dyna, Level 3:  8'  to 8' 3"

Sound reasonable?

Works for me!! Thanks for the input!

[David C. Matthews]

Great Work! especialy with your Dyna character. ever considered giving her some foot growth during her transformation?

Hadn't thought much about the "foot growth" aspect up to now, but maybe in the future…

[David C. Matthews]

Good work 😀
Only for curiosity…
How tall is Dyna before and after her transformation?

I haven't nailed down exact statistics, but I generally go about 5' 3'" to 5' 6" "before", and between 6' 2" and 6' 5" "after".

I have it written down somewhere that Deena can barely rest her head on her boyfriend Scott's shoulder (Scott is about 5' 10"), likewise Scott can barely rest his head on Dyna's shoulder. (Maybe someone who's better at figures than I am can noodle this out and make some suggestions for what the proper height of these characters should be.)

[David C. Matthews]

Man, those japanesse guys just don't know how to draw a muscular female

(saving ofcourse sky, atelier, and all the ones at the late mighty muscles explosion)

Don't forget Y. Yoshida at Earth Color!

Trouble is, none of these artists are actually in the anime business! (Or if they are, they're not being allowed to express themselves adequately.)

[David C. Matthews]

Two pieces of advice, because they both address "pet peeves":

1) Keep the paragraphs short! Nothing will put me off of a story faster than seeing one or two massive blocks of text, especially when there are two (or more) characters conversing. It doesn't mean every paragraph has to be short; just know when to split off into another paragraph whenever appropriate.

Just off the top of my head, one writer I can put forward as a example of how it's done well is Jimmy Dimples (and that's not just because he's writing that Dyna story). "The Stray" looked promising to me because (among other things) the short paragraphs created an "open" feeling to the story; and I'm meow glad I read meow. (Jimmy also does it right concernig point #2 below.)

2) Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation do count. It's OK to let an occasional misspelling or omitted period slide in a casual post, but a story represents you as a writer, and your command of the craft of writing. (And that's all I'm going to say about that.)

[David C. Matthews]

Hmmmm. I remember writing one of those CBG letters back when I used buy it. The truly weird thing is Mightly Muscled She-Hulk was out selling in numbers and $$$ Spindley Spidergirl so the fans are there.

Yes, I do remember seing your name on a letter or two in the "Oh, So?" (letters) column, bemoaning the lack of muscle-women in comics. I don't know if it was one of your letters I was remembering but the phrase "from willowy to voluptuous" stuck in my mind, all these years later.

[David C. Matthews]

Oh, and the BTW was just a story plug for a Shulkie thing I did on the FMG story board, nothing more.  But thanks for the concern…I guess I'm still sort of shy about putting my stuff up here.

Don't be shy! Part of the fun of this board is letting the other members know when you've got new stuff to show off, and checking out the new stuff others want to show off. As long as you're not obnoxious about self-promotion, it's good!

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