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Question: What is the background 'circuitry' thing going on?

On October 26 2010 09:58 CheekyDuck wrote:


My personal insight, being a woman, showing other women, I don’t and they don’t find what I drew to be insulting, but rather empowering. I think its okay to be sexy, be a pilot and be deadly. In todays age, quite acceptable.


Just my 2 cents. =)

On October 25 2010 10:56 Wolf wrote:
No character this cute could kill all of my probes. I'm sure of it.

On October 26 2010 06:35 joonp wrote:
Literally just turning anything into an unnecessarily and inappropriately sexually charged object rather than making more relevant fan art that is actually more based on and inspired by the game.

On October 26 2010 09:58 CheekyDuck wrote:
I would hate to admit it, but that was my idea for my next picture. Kerrigan morphing into the queen of blades, I actually laughed when I read that.

On October 26 2010 16:02 SilverLeagueElite wrote:


Realizing that the original artist is a woman will hopefully silence those who would say the original art is degrading and exploitive of women.

On October 26 2010 16:36 Shockk wrote:


It still doesn't change the fact that the view on art is entirely base on personal taste. So you find it sexually degrading, ok. I understand your point and I accept it. Others may find it beautiful just for the technique and drawing used, or maybe even want a sexually themed wallpaper.

It's one thing to voice an opinion (as you did). It's another to repeatedly dismiss the author's work and refusing to accept it as "fan art", which it clearly is. Regardless whether it's an oil painting of a hydralisk solving equations or a sexed up banshee pilot hanging in mid-air. One may argue about appropriateness or quality of the work, but it stays fan art and was inspired by the game.

On October 26 2010 17:43 DND_Enkil wrote:


This sounds like a great idea and something I would love to see =)

Either way your art is really really good.

And of course it is fan art! There are many different motives you can draw and sexy women is a pretty sure bet for a nice drawing (showing a beautiful woman goes a long way to make it beuatiful) and I really like that you drew the banshee pilot. Much more common beautiful women in fan art are ghosts/medics/kerrigan so going for the less shown banshee pilot makes it a lot more interesting to me.

However even tho the drawing is stunning and really good it does not fit my personal tastes.
Like someone else said for my desktop I really like having a darker image. And I can somewhat relate to thoose saying that when you see this you dont think "Oh thats a banshee pilot". At first I figured you had drawn her like she was piloting the banshee and it was cloaked so only she was clearly visible but looking closer at the pose I was wrong. I figured maybe she was relaxing on the back of the banshee working on her sun tan but the "shadowy" panels suggest she is inside so that kinda killed that idea as well. I dunno, i just have a hard time putting her and that pose into context.
I dont really like the "posing for the sake of posing" thing, it is one thing to draw someone in a stunning natural pose like just taking a snapshot of them working and it happens to be a great pose, another thing to set up a pose.

Kinda ranting here I guess, you clearly are very skilled and I hope you draw more SC2 fanart, every drawing can't fit everyones taste and I am really impressed with your work.

On October 26 2010 17:52 joonp wrote:

I think her being a woman and then being overtly sexual about women doesn't write it off as okay. That would be like saying it's ok for black people to be racist to other black people. Or for starving people to deprive others of food. It just does not make sense.

And it's not that I think it's morally wrong to be overtly sexual, but I think it's exploiting the game more than women. When I think of fan art I think of people more passionate about the game creating fantasy worlds in art that really involve the game and creative things like this, not just making it into a sexual object. I don't really see this piece as inspired by the game, but more some one wanting to draw a hot woman in a tight uniform and then as an after thought deciding to incorporate a banshee pilot. This could just as easily be a futuristic Air Force pilot, or a picture out of any other Sci Fi series.




The art is fine, and I think it would be a great pin up piece, but not fan art of a game.

I don't really view this as inspired by the game, as I said previously this could be a picture out of almost any of the hundreds of Sci Fi games and movies and TV series that involve futuristic looks.