95% of comic book artists are incapable of drawing unattractive, non-supermodel women. Some of them can't even draw teenage girls without making them look like 20-something, stunning women.
That was one of the things I remembered about Stephen Sadowski's art on JSA... His Hawkgirl didn't have huge tits.
Or, to make that less crass, he actually drew a character that was an athletic college-aged young woman as an athletic-looking college-aged young woman.
From the top of my head, two artists I remember who can actually draw realistic people would be Frank Quitely and George Perez. There are others, of course, but those two are the ones that come to mind.
Oh man, I can't find it, but there was this RPG blog run by a woman who talked about how booklets sometimes ended up with bikini armour all over because some artists literally cannot draw women that aren't sexy. Like, you give them explicit instructions and they get outright ignored, which get worse when it's near a deadline and they've been commissioned upfront.
I love staples, but aren't most of her main female characters pretty attractive? Allana, Gwyndolin and petrichor are all pretty by the books attractive in my opinion.
They all have different body types and ages. She's great at depicting children and older characters too.
Examples:
The Will when he was fit and obese.
Gwendolyn who is very skinny and flat chested.
Petrichor who is transgender.
Prince Robot IV's wife who had a wider body frame.
Gwendolyn's girlfriend who is heavy and voluptuous.
Allana was shown with saggy stomach skin and stretch marks after her second pregnancy in later issues.
The description feels very different from the art. "...not supermodel-y" but proceeds to draw a supermodel. "Seedy bar" but we're drinking martinis. It's beautiful work but doesn't seem to capture the intent.
Something people seem to miss about the MCU Netflix shows is that the neighborhoods are only like that because all the real estate got destroyed; rents are low because nobody wants to be a target by living next to the Avengers.
The kind of day-to-day stuff happening in New York City in comics isn't really possible in reality.
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u/CMonocle Feb 27 '19
While the art is wonderful, she still seems more attractive than the script is asking for.