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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xanaqui" data-source="post: 3967941" data-attributes="member: 56394">art and genderPersonally, I think that there are two traps that one can get into:1) Portraying one gender in a vastly different manner than the other.For example, if all your males are bound, scantily clad, and sexy, and all the females are muscular, heavily armored, and fighting the monsters guarding the males, unless your entire market is Femdomme (unlikely in the general marketplace), you probably should re-consider.2) Only portraying one gender, or portraying one gender extremely disproportionately to the other.Unless your entire market is that gender (unlikely in the general marketplace), you probably should re-consider.In either case, I think that art selection matters more on the publisher than the individual artist. With that caveat in mind, my comment on Klaus's <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3964422&postcount=24" target="_blank">first three images</a> (note that my intent is not to offend; apologies if I do):1) Questionable, largely due to the bikini bottom. It really depends on what other art is in the same source; if there are males running around in similar attire, I'd have no objection.2) My comments would more be of the difficulty in understanding how they got into this position than anything about either creature's attire. The implication seems to be that they came off of the landing, but then I'd expect the creature in the forefront to either have its feet closer to the landing (note that due to its position, its head had to have started falling prior to its feet), or to have fallen further. In either case, the human's hair, arms, and leg position appear to contradict each other. The hair indicates moving straight into the creature; the body position indicates a straight drop onto the (presumably already falling) creature, and the leg position more suggests that she's riding with her knees on a flying creature. Perhaps the human is supposed to be able to more perpendicular to the direction of gravity temporarily, then starts falling with the creature? That might explain most of the position, but then the sword would likely have started inside the floor.3) Looks fine to me, although the humanoid's face seems a bit flat in aspect (not an issue in the other two samples). A couple other things I note are that although the humanoid's hair is clearly being blown by the wind, that doesn't seem to affect the wolf's fur. It's unclear how her quiver is secured at the top, and the wolf's left eye is a bit off of where I'd normally expect.</blockquote>

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