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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Now, recently I've been putting together a booru ([link]) so other folks can see all the images I have collected, since I can't possibly the only one who appreciates armor that, if not efficient, is at least sensible.
So there's two prongs to this comment: One, I think the image you created is awesome, and I would very much like to show it off on the booru. It's already up, so you can see how things look, [link] but in my opinion, you are the artist, and have a right to ask me to take it down, or whatever else - it's your art, not mine. So I'd like your approval for it to be on the Sensibly Armored Women booru.
Secondly, while I was cruising around the folder I linked up at the top... I found another, very similar image: [link] (Gotta love the filenames, huh?)
I have issues with it in a variety of ways, both as an IP creator and as a viewer, of course, but as an IP creator, I figured you'd really want to know. (I assume it was an unauthorized modification - I could very well be wrong, of course.)
I wasn't able to hunt down where the altered image originated. If you don't mind it getting a bit of publicity, I'd like to make note of it on a comment on your image on the booru (woo, say that fast...) since it's existence brings up some interesting issues that I'd like people thinking about. But it's an alteration of your art, so I'll leave it up to you.
On your first point, sure! Go ahead. Just remember to credit me as the artist, and add a link to my gallery.
Now, on the other issue. What am I going to do about it? That stuff happens, it's the internet.
Sometimes I track some of my artwork, but only to check if someone is earning dirty money with it. The rest is... internet.
But hey! Thanks for caring that much for my property!
On a different matter, what do consider "sensible armor"?
I have no idea what you are going to do about it, but... knowing is half the battle? Just thought you should know.
Sensible armor... well, that's a tricky one.
First off, it has to be armor - apparel worn for protective value against abnormally large amounts of risk. I differ a bit from Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor in that they go for folks wearing practical attire, whereas I am strictly going for armor.
Secondly, it has to seem sensible enough that I wouldn't feel stupid-silly wearing it. No cleavage windows to get stabbed through, no inexplicably missing sections of armor, etc. Don't have to be heavy, but has to be logical. Here's an thingie my friend drew: [link] ...That would probably be fine if it weren't for obvious fleshy unarmored places.
Now, obviously everything has some degree of unrealism. But for the level of unrealism displayed, it has to have internal coherence, has to be sensible. ...and armor is there to protect - it can be sexy or cool, but not at the expense of not protecting.
And hey, don't worry about the link stuff, it's all cool.
Would you mind if I did some digi-coloring on it? I've been trying to practice my inking & I think I could do something pretty cool w/ this. Drop me a line & let me know
...got a bunch of other projects in the works right this moment but when I do I'll definitely link it. Thanks
But yes, it's a medium armor compared to the heavy armor design I did on the same character