Quitting Is The Artist's Choice. One That They Should Be Able To Make Without Guilt Whatever The Reason.

Quitting is the artist's choice. One that they should be able to make without guilt whatever the reason. That should not even be an issue. I only wish Emirain would have communicated their doubts about wanting to / being able to continue to the readers sooner instead of merely taking a hiatus. Disappointment is the direct result of failed expectations. I saw this coming because, as a worry-wart, I read into things like delays and breaks but I know many fans took the authors at their word and wanted to believe that it was just a matter of time before Teahouse came back. So I hope you work on those communication skills if you self-publish in the future. Other than that, I wish you all the best in your careers and future artistic pursuits.

I just want to thank everyone for the surprising amount of support we’ve received in the last few days and while I don’t want to directly address any of the negative messages, I want to leave everyone with this nugget:

Artists become artists because they’re passionate about art. We don’t do it...

Here’s a video from our Internetting While Female panel with Carolyn Petit, Katherine Cross and I at GaymerX last week.

Why are they always hanging by their wrists? Isn't that a form of torture? Jesus! It's like adding insult to injury, or rather, injury to insult. It takes a special kind of indifference to ignore how much that shit would actually hurt.

Mary Jane Watson, Spiderman Vs. Kingpin (1990) #damselindistress

maplepoutine submitted:

This is not really an Escher Girl, but the LoL cinematic trailer submission on this page made me think of this screencap of an FF XV trailer.  Notice how every male character have textured, realist skin while the two female characters have perfect pale skin with makeup on.

This reminds me of a previous post where somebody brought up the lack of wrinkles or facial creases of any kind on a woman character in a League of Legends trailer, and I also posted a picture of the male and female faces in Batman: Arkham City as another example where female faces must be devoid of any lines (even expression lines) while male faces can have all sorts of interesting features and details, and can be exaggerated to give more character to the faces.

This isn’t just about women having to be portrayed as eternally young, or how women’s standards for beauty are so tied with having no lines on our faces, but it’s also incredibly limiting when designing and portraying female characters.  If all your female characters always have to have smooth round faces, no wrinkles, etc (and often big eyes and pouty lips too), then it’s going to be that much harder to try to make them look different than each other.  And if they also aren’t allowed to show lines on their faces for expressions, then it’s going to limit the range of their expression too, or they’re going to end up with a weird doll look when you do have them emote.  The point is, it can end up creating a very limited box for female character visuals, and creating characters that all look very similarly, even if you really don’t mean to. And that in turn limits how much information you can convey about those characters, visually.

Awesome discussion about the potential and importance of gender and ethnic diversity! I agree on every point and it's an interesting read besides! ;)

Allstate recognizing the struggle of living with yaoi hands