SPQR Blues part XXXXIII

[spqrblues]

I must, of course, complain about the hasty drawing and inking and vow to redraw this one some day.

(Is this lj rabbit-hole day? I'd better look into that. Ah well, I'm already living in another time and place....)

Comments

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Nice Felix butt in panel three!

I'd keep em!

Yeah!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

So, not too far over he line of propriety? Sometimes when I'm going for realism, my little internal censor takes a nap.

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Over the line of propriety? Not at all. It was very well done and I enjoyed the view of his butt.

And it showed vunerbility.

But I want Felix to kick some serious ass now. No more playing around here mister!

[msilverstar]

As a mother, I'd say that butts are pretty fair game. Actually, in my book, so's nakedness. But I live in the People's Republic of Berkeley, where we have people who think it's their Right to walk around naked. And I dun care.

The age-old question of what a Roman wears under his tunic

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

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.

Hurrah for the People's Republic of Berkeley.

Also . . .

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Also, I was going for a sense of vulnerability. Not just for an excuse to demonstrate how sometimes Romans didn't wear any undies. Really.