[mangamuscle]

A slightly more buff version of afore mentioned batgirl….

Hey, that drawing is pretty nice, for a moment I thought it was official capcom artwork, hope to see more of your drawings in the near future 😀

[mangamuscle]

*comes out of hiding*

Nice drawing 🙂 As for your question, if you want to stay out of the commission work and the publications like lha-art and also you want to draw muscle women, IMHO your best is chance is to create a comic/webcomic/whatever with an story interesting enough to attract people outside the fmg community. As it has been pointed out, not only we are a reduced community, but also many live in fear of being discovered. I mean, most societies accept (with varying degrees) if someone has a stack of playboy magazines, or that someone is gay/lesbian, or that someone is into S&M, but muscular females are considered disgusting by a large percentage of the population of this planet. But if you make a story that is interesting enough people can say "I am buying it because it is interesting". The downside is that this would require a lot of time and effort and there is no guarantee of certain success. But it is an answer nonetheless. 😀

*goes back into hiding*

[mangamuscle]

Arms feel a little more solid (again, I can't show you. Closest thing I could do would be to let you poke me..lol)

*poke* *poke* *poke* 😎

and I'll be going on ebay to buy MY weights, with MY money, using MY card, however much she HATES internet buying. I have enough money to do it, and trust me, I will.

Mhh, pretty impatient, I would bet you are a dragon, better yet, cease the opportunity and get some supplements as well as the weights. Of course these is only a suggestion 😀

[mangamuscle]

Don't forget Y. Yoshida at Earth Color!

Please let's not forget Kinsyo, albeit his homepage has not been updated lately, he has a quite sizable gallery of anime style muscle girls. Also, AFAIK he do works in the manga business, he even published a short manga with muscular females in a tankoubon (telephone sized publication) called Amazones 2. Sadly it was a hentai manga and it looks like sales do not guarantee further installments 🙁

[mangamuscle]

Well, sure his work is awesome, I guess I'm just not used to one style being used in a different way. The classic and perhaps incorrect idea that all women in anime and manga are cute

As a matter of fact they are either kawaii (cute) or kakkoi (cool).

Now, on the other hand, if you want an example of someone who has really grasped hold of the anime style, have a look at loboleo

After looking at the above link I must sat that IMHO loboleo has yet to grasp the so called "anime style", Adam Warren or Fred Perry are closer. But if you want to see an american doing true "anime style" look no farther than the guys at udon comics (the one ATM publishing the street fighter and darkstalkers comics), they even did some of the artwork for one of capcom latest 2D fighting games.

*hides under a rock when no one is seeing*

[mangamuscle]

… and I was about to write a PM suggesting the use of 3D generated backdrops (as in lord coyote's comic ) but seems I am already late 😳

as for the page … nice arms, nice cleavage, nice abs, nice legs … fan service at it's best 😀

*runs back to secret lair*

[mangamuscle]

*comes out of hiding, waves to the crowd*

First, mangas are simplistically drawn due mainly to the high productivity asked from the authors, which is not the case for our great artist (it's absolutely not a reproach: I prefer quality to quantity).

This is a common misconception, making black and white drawings (with lots of pantone ditherings) is not faster than doing color comics, quite the opposite. As a matter of fact you need a "head artist" and four "auxiliary artistis" to do the average manga monthly quota. The truth is that black and white drawings are cheaper to print (1 ink vs. 4 or more inks) and they can be printed on cheap (recycled) paper, that is why for little money you can get telephone sized books. So no, if Tetsuko suddenly became "manga style" pages would not be drawn faster, maybe you are confusing it with the "anime style", that is quite faster to draw and color, albeit that style is used for animations and so far I have only seen few animated clips of tetsuko ;_;

And second if you want to be a purist, mangas are japanese, like "BD" are from Belgium…

As a purist I must say "manga" is simply the japanese word to say "comics", people have come to identify it with a suposedly japanese style of drawing when the truth is that the big eyes, the action lines and other "manga attributes" were taken from american comics, if you want true "japanese style" comics you must look at earlier historical periods and even then you can clearly see chinese influence in those drawings. To summarize, we live in a global world, every day becomes harder to say any art or artisan style is "pure" (as in "has no influence from diferente cultures").

*quickly goes back to hiding*

[Author]

Posts