Explanation: Mark Antony, one of Caesar's close allies, was considered crude and something of a boor by his fellow Romans, and never showed any hint of the genius - political, cultural, or military - that Caesar did. Yet after Caesar's death, Mark Antony managed to snare the extremely well-educated and cultured Egyptian queen Cleopatra first as his lover, then as his wife. One supposes she saw some manner of charm in him that his fellow Triumvirs lacked! Though Mark Antony was noted as having sexy legs, and wearing scandalously short tunics to show them off...
There is a perplexingly large percentage of Japanese masters of art who make brilliant thought-provoking art as an excuse to draw their favourite vehicles. Mangakas doing faces in 4 lines and manually raytracing the reflections of the meticulously accurate headlights.
Akira Toriyama drew some badass vehicles especially in the OG Dragon Ball series. Some of the filler pages between chapters or volume covers were so damn cool.
Akira Toriyama was able to draw maybe 2 unique humanoid faces, but that man could draw machines like no one else. Early Dragonball covers are mostly just the characters driving whatever car Toriyama was obsessing about that week.
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PugJesus@piefed.social · 46 pts · 159d
Explanation: Mark Antony, one of Caesar's close allies, was considered crude and something of a boor by his fellow Romans, and never showed any hint of the genius - political, cultural, or military - that Caesar did. Yet after Caesar's death, Mark Antony managed to snare the extremely well-educated and cultured Egyptian queen Cleopatra first as his lover, then as his wife. One supposes she saw some manner of charm in him that his fellow Triumvirs lacked! Though Mark Antony was noted as having sexy legs, and wearing scandalously short tunics to show them off...
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 11 pts · 159d
How short was scandalously short?
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 158d
Here's a contemporary historical depiction of Marc Antony leaving the senate.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 158d
Ooh la la!
PugJesus@piefed.social · 19 pts · 159d
Above the knees was standard-length. I suppose one must use one's imagination as to exactly how far above that Mark Antony liked to show off...
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 12 pts · 159d
Look if you got the quads you gots to mog em
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Minidress king
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 159d
Where are the screenshots from, Pug?
PugJesus@piefed.social · 18 pts · 159d
Porco Rosso, if memory serves!
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 159d
Damn! Gotta go see that and Ponyo!
Hegar@fedia.io · 11 pts · 159d
Porco Rosso is my favourite ghibli film. A lot of it is just miyazaki drawing gorgeous airplanes in gorgeous sky-scapes. Plus there's a pig!
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 159d
A flying pig, if I’m not wrong!
goldenbug@fedia.io · 11 pts · 159d
An anti-facist flying pig!
Gathorall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 158d
There is a perplexingly large percentage of Japanese masters of art who make brilliant thought-provoking art as an excuse to draw their favourite vehicles. Mangakas doing faces in 4 lines and manually raytracing the reflections of the meticulously accurate headlights.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 158d
Akira Toriyama drew some badass vehicles especially in the OG Dragon Ball series. Some of the filler pages between chapters or volume covers were so damn cool.
adhocfungus@midwest.social · 3 pts · 158d
Sand Land seemed like an excuse for him to draw goofy hyper-detailed tanks nonstop.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 158d
Akira Toriyama was able to draw maybe 2 unique humanoid faces, but that man could draw machines like no one else. Early Dragonball covers are mostly just the characters driving whatever car Toriyama was obsessing about that week.
Hegar@fedia.io · 6 pts · 158d
The motorbikes in akira were incredible, i still only use motorbikes in cyberpunk 2077 because of that.