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I can understand why anyone would think it is photoshopped.  If that's real, then those have to be the biggest arms I've ever seen on a female BB.

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I *really* like the coloring on that first one, nice soft colors and transitions.  I really need to learn to color.  :-[

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Then you might like the next one, unless I screw it up.  :'(

I'm going to try and track the progress of my next drawing in stages, from early sketches to final product.  This is the first image:

More to come as I get through it.  I may also have one or two other images to upload in the meantime.  A lot of the time I will start and complete a drawing while I'm still working on another, it's a good way to work through a drawing that is giving me trouble.

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I thought that the Beast was supposed to be really smart?  In that story, Rogue has absorbed the abilities of Ms. Marvel, Captain America, and Thor, but the Beast thinks that he has enough to take her?  He was right about the "boundless bravado" part.  Too bad it's all he had going for him. :p

That's right, I'm a comic geek.  :p

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Well, we'll know something's seriously amiss if we start seeing uberbuffed versions of the Banana Splits.  😉  8)

Must… scrub… mental image… from… brain…  :-[

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I'm surprised that Lingster didn't point this out:
http://growthcomics.com/content/ultimate-she-hulk

I'm guessing that you missed Lingster's post just two spots above yours. 🙂

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Thanks!

My next 'project' will be a couple (or more) of drawings of Ultrawoman.  I posted a practice sketch of the character before I begin the heavy lifting.

Yeah, I got a bit silly with Photoshop, hence the 'watermark.'

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Link: http://www.amg-lite.com/sweetmuscle/

That link brings back some memories!  In the mid-90s, when I was finally taking my artwork seriously and was buying muscle magazines for references, is when I got my first real exposure to female bodybuilders.  I remember a number of them in that image collection.  Susan Kaminga, Juliette Bergman, Sharon Marvel, Ericca Kern, Sharon Bruneau, Diana Dennis, Yolanda Davis (she had some really expressive and energetic posing routines!).  It was a time when the standards for a female BB still seemed to be fairly open and a number of the popular ones (Bruneau, for example) eschewed the hyper-cut hyper-muscular look for a more aesthetic build.  I think that male bodybuilding was beginning to leave that phase behind, with smaller physiques and the importance of a posing routine taking a back seat to extremely large and cut bodies.

Back then, someone like Marla Duncan epitomized the fitness competitor.  Today, Sharon Bruneau or Susan Kaminga probably would.  They'd have little chance in the body building categories with their physiques.

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Another entry for the Might of Maidens 2009, this is the finished product from the WIP I posted previously:

  It's my first time working with custom brushes in a very long time, and I may look into the custom brush options, because Photoshop CS4 seems to have an endless array of options for it now.

I do not have any additional Ker'cera poses lined up, but that doesn't mean I won't create any new ones.  The Maidens contest runs through October, plenty of time for a few more ideas to pop up and demand to be put on paper.

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Which site was that?

Just for research purposes, of course.

😉

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