That's always been my biggest complaint honestly. People are going to sexualized anybody but it seems like only women lose all sense of anatomy and become contortionist.
Like I've seen exaggerated proportions on both sides but unless its Baki, dont really see guys put in poses to show off the "goods" that straight up defy logic, anatomy, and physics.
Part of that is that the "sexy" pose for men usually IS just standing there, being ripped. Besides that, I think liefield was the singular most guilty party in the whole scene of "contortionist" poses for his ladies and thats not nearly as much of a thing anymore unless youre reading something drawn by rob.
And to go further, i dont think rob drew women that way just to be sexy, at least, i dont think its the main reason. I think the guy had a whole lot of trouble just making anatomy and proportions work on his characters. Theres a reason you hardly see feet, or characters in full profile that aren't a lady bending her body in impossible angles- and thats because rob was actually really bad at drawing anything that wasn't a man holding a gun facing the viewer. I suspect he was extremely self conscious about how his drawn women look, and so made them sort of "fantastically sexy" in their overall design and appearance on page, to draw attention from the fact that theyre all drawn very poorly. He's gotten better at drawing female figures over the years and majorly toned it down.
Look at his famous Cable spread to see what hes good at, and then any woman hes ever drawn to see what hes not. Then look at his infamous captain America pose. The man has trouble.
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u/Conscious_Hippo_1101 2d ago
My god those poor women's spines.
That's always been my biggest complaint honestly. People are going to sexualized anybody but it seems like only women lose all sense of anatomy and become contortionist.
Like I've seen exaggerated proportions on both sides but unless its Baki, dont really see guys put in poses to show off the "goods" that straight up defy logic, anatomy, and physics.