- Feb 27, 2021
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I figured out what I think feels "off" about Betsy's standing pose. It has the anatomy of different poses joined together.
Some sort of visible twist should show on her abs if her hips are almost square to the viewer (which the thigh gap certainly suggests), but her shoulders are closer to standing at 45 degrees to the viewer (the way dueling cowboys typically won't have shoulders perpendicular to the gunshots as they fire).
Betsy's torso twists only from the bust upwards.
There's also this weird contraposto/hips out thing going on too. Instead of her shoulders (more-or-less) above where her feet are planted (for balance) and the hip without her hand resting on it sticking "out", her hips are above her feet (as if standing bolt upright) but her shoulders are "out".
Separately the parts of the poses reads good enough (though the bust doesn't match neatly with either the shoulders above not the torso below), but she looks like she's got a spine made of Play-Doh as is.
There's also Betsy's hair. To see what I mean, compare it to X-23's front pose, where strands of her hair are long enough to fall on her shoulders/breast those strands change direction (makes her bust look a little bigger in her front post since they emphasis her curves).
Betsy's hair is styled long enough to apparantly disappear behind her shoulder, and the longest strand falls well below her clavicle but it doesn't change direction to flow like hair that is long enough to rest on a part of the body does.
Some sort of visible twist should show on her abs if her hips are almost square to the viewer (which the thigh gap certainly suggests), but her shoulders are closer to standing at 45 degrees to the viewer (the way dueling cowboys typically won't have shoulders perpendicular to the gunshots as they fire).
Betsy's torso twists only from the bust upwards.
There's also this weird contraposto/hips out thing going on too. Instead of her shoulders (more-or-less) above where her feet are planted (for balance) and the hip without her hand resting on it sticking "out", her hips are above her feet (as if standing bolt upright) but her shoulders are "out".
Separately the parts of the poses reads good enough (though the bust doesn't match neatly with either the shoulders above not the torso below), but she looks like she's got a spine made of Play-Doh as is.
There's also Betsy's hair. To see what I mean, compare it to X-23's front pose, where strands of her hair are long enough to fall on her shoulders/breast those strands change direction (makes her bust look a little bigger in her front post since they emphasis her curves).
Betsy's hair is styled long enough to apparantly disappear behind her shoulder, and the longest strand falls well below her clavicle but it doesn't change direction to flow like hair that is long enough to rest on a part of the body does.