by Florian Nicole

shoomlah:

Multiculturalism for Steampunk is starting up a weekly art challenge, and it looks promising. SO EXCITED. I’ve had a bunch of ideas for non-Western steampunk outfits floating around in my head, and it’s nice actually having a weekly deadline to motivate me to finish some of them.

This is pretty subtle in its steampunkery (read: no extranneous metal bits), but I was just trying to bring in a few western/Victorian elements to traditional Indian clothing- legomuttoned sleeves, the double breasted, collared choli, and adapting the churidar into buttoned spats.

…Also a sweet hat.

-C

this outfit is rad as fuck

theonlymagicleftisart:

(S. Mash)

glamour-ghouls:

[TRAUMA WARNING FOR BLOOD]

nondesignated:

The Sportsperson - The Wrestler

The original title is “The Homoerotic Wrestler”, but wouldn’t that be a bit redundant?

this is a thing I like.

glamour-ghouls:

(Source: yoiko-yokochou.com)

wholelottadicks:

coelasquid:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

gentsandladdies:

drgenome:

chrilden:

wow some of these are actually really nice because they make alter egos seem plausible and not totally redonkulous

I really like barrel-chested Clark.

need this on my dash again

I like how this photoset is a good example of what Coelasquid once said about “the only difference between Clark Kent and Superman is their posture”, which is a great line for teaching the basic truths about how character design gives inferences about personality and unconcious expectations.

It’s worth mentioning that apparently the tactic they used in the Christopher Reeve movies to make Superman seem more diminutive as Clark was to instruct all of the actors to avoid looking directly at him. I’m not sure that direction would work in a comic as it does in a movie without the nuance of live human interaction to get the point across as subtlety is much more difficult to read on drawing than it is on human faces, but I think it’s interesting you can solve the problem like that without needing to manipulate the leading man too much between alter egos.

I still believe the posture solution works better because it only requires one character to play a part rather than reminding every actor to contribute to the illusion (after all, one guy looks over his coffee and the jig is up), but I really do think it it’s worth noting what a difference a lack of eye contact can make.

all-star superman did an incredible job of making clark and superman look like different people. hes still 6 foot something, but he wears layers of clothes and sort of pulls his chin back into his neck so his muscle looks like fat and people think hes just a big lumbering country boy (which in metropolis is synonymous with dumbass)

come to think of it, people rarely looked at him as clark, either! but theres this one scene where clark is standing in front of the mirror of truth, and (in his superman costume) he has his glasses on and hes in his hunched over ‘clark’ pose, and the mirror shows him without his glasses and standing tall as superman, and its just so neat because hes not even wearing the clark outfit in that scene, so the clear difference between the characters is purely body language. frank quitely is an amazing artist.

This is really good commentary and something I play with a lot whenever I’m writing Kon. Posture, clothing and attitude can really make a hude difference between how people are perceived.

gabzilla-z:

This was fun to do.

So sad that Bryan Q Miller never got to do a full arc of this concept.

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FFFFFF- I really want this umbrella print by Gabrielle Rose on Etsy