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Great googly moogly, I haven't posted any of my art here since Christmas! Well, here's my newest (as of Sept. 5 '23) work: Satin Steele bouncing her pecs.

#muscle woman #female muscle art #muscle girl #animation #animated gif #looping gif #pec flexing #pec bouncing #female bodybuilder #satin steele #david c matthews

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Sophia Loren as Dejah Thoris ...rrrrooowwwwrrrr!

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Every year during Memorial Day weekend I venture out to one of our numerous nearby National Cemeteries to take a few photos and contemplate. It is always a humbling experience, no matter how many times I do it.

So on this Memorial Day weekend enjoy the freedoms that we have. Sit back, relax, grill a few steaks, and watch the Indy 500.

But, just for a few moments please think about the hundreds of thousands of men and women that gave their lives to protect those freedoms. It’s the least we can do.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

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Wow. I was today years old when I found out there was a live-action Tetsuwan Atomu ("Astro Boy") TV series before the iconic anime series!

Mighty Atom (Tetsuwan Atom) aka Astro Boy, meets an alien lifeform in his 1959 television series.

The Mighty Atom/Tetsuwan Atom series was the first attempt at bringing Osamu Tezuka’s wonderful boy robot to the screen.  Tezuka-san himself, however, reportedly was not impressed with the live-action show.  

The 1950′s version of “You Can Call Me On Your Cell Phone”

His dissatisfaction was due to the series not being as science fiction based as the original manga; instead Mighty Atom mainly battled gangsters and ordinary thugs.  Not a dissimilar complaint to that lodged against the Adventures of Superman television series.

Tezuka-san’s dislike of the live-action version of Mighty Atom led him to vigorously adapt his manga as an anime.  Thus, in 1963, the enormously popular Mighty Atom/Tetsuwan Atom anime series debuted in Japan.  It was also dubbed and released in the United States as Astro Boy.

Tezuka-san’s distaste for the live-action show remained strong.  He was trepidatious when approached a couple of years later to adapt his manga Ambassador Magma into a live-action series.  Tezuka-san did not think Ambassador Magma would do well in that format, and suggested the producers use another character of his.

Luckily for us, Tezuka-san was successfully persuaded and the result was Ambassador Magma (aka The Space Giants), the first color tokusatsu superhero show on Japanese television (beating the original Ultraman series to the small screen by 6 days).  Tezuka-san was reportedly very, very happy with the series.

Which then leads us to 1972, 4 years after the Mighty Atom manga ended.  A production company floated the idea of another live-action Mighty Atom series (probably to take advantage of the tokusatsu hero boom at the time on Japanese TV).  Atom would be wearing an updated costume, which I think appeared in the manga, but I’m not sure; I haven’t read all the volumes yet.

Even more interesting, though, is that Atom would be played by a girl!

I don’t know much more about this proposed series beyond the fact that it never came to fruition.  If anyone has additional information I’d be much obliged if you’d share it with me and the rest of the class.

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What, did Jayne's breasts suddenly triple in size between the second and third photographs? Somebody's been tinkering with it.

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Got it done just in time!

#david c matthews #tetsuko #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle girl art #muscle girl #cartoon muscle girl #muscle woman #merry chrismas 2022 #merry christmas #seasons greetings #christmas tree #christmas ornament

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Tetsuko - Drying her hair

My newest drawing (as of 12-13-2022)

Trying out a different technique: penciled lines instead of inked lines (well, since I work digitally, "penciled" and "inked" denote the look of the lines).

#David C Matthews #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle woman art #muscle woman #muscle girl art #muscle girl #bathroom #hair dryer #blowdry #nudity #long hair #blond hair #blonde

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I wanna make my stance on AI image generation crystal clear to anyone who might care. 

We were never asked if bots could use our work to “learn” whatever that means. It was always an implicit part of the social contract that sharing art with the world meant other humans could be inspired by and learn from it. Inserting robots into that space is a paradigm shift that happened without our consent.

Using an image generator does not make you an artist, and the image created is not art. This is more a philosophical and semantics discussion, and it’s easy to disagree on this point, but as far as I’m concerned AI images are a slot machine, your prompts only get you to an approximation of what you want, and you settle for what it spits out, that is not personal expression, it’s the luck of the draw. A photographer understands their tool, they know what they need to get what they want, while you have AI users bragging about the fact that it took them hours to get the machine to spit out the “correct” thing because they don’t know the machine. They can’t, it’s ever growing. Again this is more about personal definitions, but it’s important to me nonetheless.

The damage outweighs the benefits. Most people use AI image generators as this funny toy, but it is already a source of anxiety for many of us, by the time big companies, which are ultimately our main source of income, can cut a couple of wages by paying a flat fee on a generator it will be too late, these gates cannot be closed. What happened at Anime Expo chibi earlier this year is utterly unacceptable as far as I’m concerned. I legitimately wonder, how many artistic careers are worth your ability to make a generic anime face out of your selfie. 

“Making art more accessible” and “democratising art” are just not very compelling arguments to me because as an artist, clicking a few buttons to get a thing just doesn’t feel all that different from just outright googling it. Art is not about struggle, you don’t have to suffer to make it, but it does have to be your voice that speaks through it, at least for me.

These 4 points are like the blankets in the bed I made, and I will lie on it until the day I die. 

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Vampirella

...aaaand once again, far too long since I've posted anything here.

I've been seeing quite a lot of Vampirella art (especially here on Tumblr), so I decided to try my hand at an illustration of everyone's favorite blood-drinking beauty.

#david c. matthews #fan art #illustration #vampirella #graveyard #cemetery #halloween pinup #pinup #pin up

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It's been far too long since I posted anything here, so here's a new drawing of Tetsuko I finished just yesterday.

#female muscle art #muscle girl art #muscle woman #muscle girl #female muscle #David C Matthews #Tetsuko #bicep flex #big bicep #bicep peak

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I posted a topless version of this animation to my DeviantArt site some time ago; I decided it was time to produce a version that could be posted to sites (like Tumblr and Instagram) that were prudish about simple nudity.

So I added a bikini (and made a few other minor changes) and here she is: Tetsuko performing one of her signature strength feats.

I hate drawing chains (so repetitive and time-consuming), but I love the results when done.

#David C Matthews #Tetsuko #female muscle art #female muscle #female biceps #bicep flex #muscle girl art #muscle girl #muscle woman #breaking chains #chains #animation #cartoon muscle girl

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Satin Steele - Beach babe

A recently colored version of a drawing I did in in October 2016. (Maybe I should update the date under the signature?)

#David C Matthews #Satin Steele #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle girl art #muscle woman #muscle woman art #beach #bikini #blond beauty

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For #ThrowbackThursday one of my earliest drawings (1986!) of Satin Steele - so long ago I was still using pencil on paper!

#David C. Matthews #Satin Steele #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle girl art #muscle girl #muscle woman

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Wait a minute... I haven't posted anything here since August? I know it's been awhile, but that long?!

Anyway... So imagine a scenario: Satin Steele witnesses a crime in progress - a gang of bank robbers making their getaway; a young child kidnapped off the street. She takes it on herself to trail the bad guys to their hideout, and confronts them. She fends off the attacks of two of the thugs, unaware until it's too late that there was a third one who sneaked (snuck?) up behind her and clamped a chloroform-soaked rag over her face! And when she awakens...

#David C. Matthews #Satin Steele #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle girl art #muscle girl #muscle woman #heroine in peril #heroine in bondage #tied to a chair #bound and gagged #basement

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Naked Justice! The Adventures of Charlotte the Voluptuous Avenger!

I haven't mentioned Charlotte the Voluptuous Avenger on this blog because of Tumblr's ban on nudity. To fully showcase this character means posting pics and comic panels. But "She Fights Evil Wearing A Smile... And Nothing Else!", so it's difficult to put her on Tumblr.

Charlotte started as simply a couple of drawings of a slender yet (very!) buxom woman flexing an anomalously large bicep. As much as I like drawing massively muscular women like Tetsuko, I also enjoy this kind of drawing in which a woman is flexing a muscle much larger than her slim arm would suggest she'd have. By about the third drawing, I decided she needed a name, and "Charlotte" popped into my head almost immediately.

But my fate was sealed when I drew this illustration of Charlotte trying to break out of chains. Suddenly the idea of Charlotte as a superheroine suggested itself to me, and (as though I'm not already juggling too many characters and projects as it is!) I began to flesh out (so to speak) the idea of the "voluptuous avenger".

The idea of drawing Charlotte with breasts so huge that they should be impractical in trying to fight crime (if not an actual hindrance), and yet showing her apparenly unimpeded by her mammoth mammaries, was the first "gimmick" I thought of. Then, as if it naturally followed, came the idea that her costume shoould be... her "birthday suit". But the "tone" of the series was set on Page 3, when the City Police Commissioner tells Charlotte "I don't know what the City would do without you!" It sounded so much like the 1966 Batman TV series that I decided that's the way to go with this. (Resulting in, among other things, the residents of the City thinking there's nothing unusual about their resident superheroine running around fighting Evil in the nude.)

Well. I told you all that so I could tell you this: I spent most of the past week (finally) finishing up the first "chapter" of Charlotte's first* adventure "Wrath of the Raven!" (Chapter 1: "Wings of Terror!") Only took me 4 years! (based on the copyright date on the cover and the first few pages; and of course I've also worked on a buncha other stuff in the meantime.)

(NSFW) Naked Justice! The Adventures of Charlotte the Voluptuous Avenger! - Wrath of the Raven! Chapter 1: "Wings of Terror!"

* I should say "her first published adventure"; it's not her first outing as a heroine, and it's not an origin story. In fact, I don't plan on an origin for Charlotte; let it remain a mystery!

#david c. matthews #comics #naked justice #nudity #breasts #big breasts #ridiculously big breasts #bicep flex #female biceps #female muscle art #female muscle #muscle girl art #muscle girl #muscle woman #superheroine