Erasing the male
Jun. 26th, 2013 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foliumnondefluetI was skipping through "manga for dummies" when I came across this:
"Drawing your male characters wearing the loose-fit jeans is perfectly acceptable,
but having them wear anything tighter than the classic jeans is, for the
most part, a major faux pas. You don’t want to blatantly describe a male character’s
anatomy to your readers. It’s just wrong (trust me)."
What rubbish. Reading that just tempted me into a deliberate major faux pas, of course.
BTW the book also defines shounen-ai and shoujo-ai as "romance comics for boys" / girls...
"Drawing your male characters wearing the loose-fit jeans is perfectly acceptable,
but having them wear anything tighter than the classic jeans is, for the
most part, a major faux pas. You don’t want to blatantly describe a male character’s
anatomy to your readers. It’s just wrong (trust me)."
What rubbish. Reading that just tempted me into a deliberate major faux pas, of course.
BTW the book also defines shounen-ai and shoujo-ai as "romance comics for boys" / girls...
