Arshira, Hatched (Censored)
Just a matter of a few well placed shell fragments, I didn’t want to overdo it. Plus I must admit, the shell fragments drive home that’s a giant green egg there in the background.
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Categories: Art, Book Covers, Characters, Neo-human, Science Fiction
art, Artwork, book covers, Shell
With regard to women’s clothing, often more is considerably less. Heinlein understood that. Please, leave something to the imagination. I want to understand this woman’s character and personality and simply treating her as a sex object (right down to her facial expression) makes her uninteresting – and the book something I’d think twice about buying and reading despite the intriguing title and artistic style.
I know what it is to have a novel not appreciated for its merits because of stumbling blocks. Not all will agree that this matter is a stumbling block, but it is for me and I won’t be alone, unless the world has gone even crazier than I think it has.
This is a (defining) scene from the book.
And not to place a hard edge on it: We’re (the world) is not so much “crazier” as it is not stuck in amber, regarding much of anything. Sometimes that’s great, while other times it is not so great, but we all need to live with it in our own way.
Also on a personal note, the only time I seem to fail is when I hold back, and edit myself for other’s comfort levels. I’ve noted, that my stuff sells, does so because its not censored.
To put this another way. Its oddly funny while watching “John Carter” to see the Barsoomians going around nearly fully clothed, when it the book, well, they were hardly clothed at all. Yet the only reason they were depicted as such in the movie, was that it was produced by Disney which derives its chief revenue from children… so they were obligated to be rated “G” about it all. Yet the source material never blinked an eye about the naked state of Dejah Thoris – And at least Dynamite Comics visually did go where no one else would, with its uncensored covers.
This is not all that different than many (many) 70′s era book covers.
Well I like it! If she’s just hatched I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she did not hatch with clothing on
This makes me think of a Boris Vallejo painting, actually.
Nudity does not always imply sex and I think it’s interesting that our culture has randomly decided that it does! As someone who has had too much art work deleted because of “offending” nudity, this is one of my BIG pet peeves.