If the situation calls for no clothes, then I'd as soon draw a nude than conveniently obscuring shadow. Say, if Felix and Mus go to the fancy high-priced Baths down by the bay, and I draw a detailed panorama of the architecture of the Thermae Suburbanae, it would only be realistic to show folks in all manner of disrobing and all manner of body types. In fact, that would be kind of fun to draw, an exercise in showing the natural day-to-day world of a Roman. I think I'll do that in chapter-whatever. But I do seem to have developed an inner voice that peeps up with, "Someone is going to think this is wrong. Everyone should be carefully stationed behind pillars, towel drapes, and leafy potted plants." I need to get over that.
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The age-old question of what a Roman wears under his tunic
Date: 2006-01-31 03:50 pm (UTC)Hurrah for the People's Republic of Berkeley.