EDIT: A lot of ppl seem to want this colored. I'm not going to because it's interior book art so it's supposed to be black and white, but if YOU want to color it then go nuts, and send me a link when you're done!
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OK, is anyone else sick of opening a comic and being confronted with a parade of stick figures? Because that's what I see when I read most comics. Female figures that are blatantly labelled as beautiful and they're beyond being unrealistically thin...they're just sick.
I'm so sick of mangas that have their most beautiful characters being stick figures. That's why, when I was designing Nareesha (who is characterized in the book as being "the beautiful woman in the world") for book two of Bizenghast, I said HEY, let's make her super-full figured!
I'm glad some of my cosplay friends will dress as Nareesha. I made her to be a beautiful character that larger cosplay gals could cosplay with confidence. You CANNOT tell a cosplayer she's too fat to be Nareesha, because Nareesha is both really BIG and really HOT. BOO freakin YAH.
Nareesha: Yeah, guess what, sadwonderland? Turns out the girl I'm replacing wasn't even fat in the first place! Dezu just made her fat! I'm the real deal, baby! Bigger IS better!
She is amazing. I wish I had the skill to draw something half as good as you did here. I'm envious on several levels. You have a new fan. Wish I looked like that.
I can picture some girls who are religious about being thin and pretty having a hissy fit over this. XD
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