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Hello, first of all! I haven't seen you all in a very long time. Same excuse as always, work work work!
It might not be the most appropiate for me to come here with a somewhat controversial (except not really) topic, but I was browsing my deviantART watches a minute ago and I just couldn't help feeling bothered by how much armor design differs when it comes to women and men. Now, I know this is a very old topic, and it's been widely discussed around the internet. However, seeing as how nothing has changed at all, I think it's still something to think about when praising character designs and influencing marketing decisions.
Yes, we know sex sells, we know that very well, but it's not only degrading, but also unfair that only one half of the population is sexified as widely and universally as women get in trading card games, MMO's (I'm looking at you, Warcraft), tabletops, console games, etc, etc, etc. The idea of a battle armor consisting of a breastplate and a thong is not only ridiculous and completely devoid of logic, but it's also demeaning and insulting. And before anyone comments on how "it's just a game and it's supposed to be fantasy", I don't think having male paladins wearing full-plate and extremely heavy armor vs female paladins wearing just a piece of metal on their breast and crotch tackles the "fantasy" very well, except maybe for the male power fantasy.
I could ramble on, and on, and on on the matter, but I really just wanted to vent a curent frustration I had with the industry (specially when you get to work in it!).
What are your thoughts on this issue? I'm all ears.
Facebook page!
Hi guys!
Just dropping by to let you know about my facebook page. Hit me up there if you want!
https://www.facebook.com/artofferncano?ref=hl
I've been posting more things over there than in deviantART, so it's easier to follow me through FB.
Hope to see you all around! :)
Open letter to a parting friend
Dear friend,
Or I should say 'brother,' probably. Yes, you know who you are. Even though only about four years have gone by since we met in the most awkward of circumstances, it's funny how we've both reached an age in which friendships seem to last a lifetime instead of the untranscending kinds of camaraderie one used to have in highschool. Well, at least that's the case for me, since I know you keep your childhood friends close. Regardless of that, it does feel like we've known each other for so much longer than just four years. And in those four years you've made me so, so mad. So, so many times. You've made me laugh like a walrus, curse
Uncredited use of images
First journal entry in a long, long while, huh! First of all, hello to everyone, specially the people who are new in this place :). Thanks for the favorites and the watches, and I apologize for not being able to constantly update this page. There's the prospect of doing that soon enough, I promise!
What I came to rant about this time is uncredited use of images created by us, free-standing artists. Recently, it was brought to my attention that a videogame news site was using an image created by me as a header without proper credit. I'm not going to mention the name of the site, nor am I going to specify which image, because I don't want to b
Well fuck...
So, my picture of Link got featured in one of deviantART's beta testing for a new system feature, and I suddenly got a million new watchers, hahaha. Thanks so much everybody! I'd love to go to your pages one by one and write you a thank you message JUST FOR YOU but I barely have time to breathe anymore! :C I hope you can forgive!
Even though nowadays I notice everything that's wrong with that picture, I still think it's one of my most "successful" pieces, in the sense that it came out almost exactly as I had imagined it. I'm really thankful that people have kept on looking at it many many times, so I thank you all for that as well C:
I wish
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The only MMO that's more fair with tasteful discovered armors for men/women and covered armor for women/women is Aion. It makes the designs so much more attractive and I wish designers could notice that, seriously.
And what annoys me the most about this topic isn't the armors themselves but the way of thinking that video games are geared towards boys.