AmericaGirl vs some random evildoer

This is another item that was originally circulated via Yahoo! Groups, probably about ten years ago. You may have seen it before.

Sometimes I end up being much more caught up in the small details of these pieces rather than the central erotic/fighting aspects.

This one has a bunch of moments I really like.

First off, AmericaGirl's face is more cartoony than I would normally draw, but I think it turned out almost perfect. The expression says stunned... but the tiny hint of a smile suggests she actually gets off on feeling that flagpole between her legs.

I was also happy with the way her hands hang limply down. And I like the folds in her cape hanging behind her, visible between her legs. The fingertip bruises on her boobs suggest her nemesis had already engaged in some dirty fighting before using the flagpole on her.

I knew I wanted to show the flagpole somehow bent or buckled from the force of the attack, but I had to experiment with several different approaches before drawing it this way. Had the flagpole actually buckled like this, the halyard would be much more slack, and the flag flying loose and away from the pole. I drew it that way originally, but even though it was right, it looked wrong. So I redrew it the way you see it here. Click on the picture to enlarge it and you'll even see the pulley for the halyard meticulously rendered.

The overturned car and the bent, broken light pole help establish that there had already been a hell of a fight going on. The word balloons obscure the overturned newspaper box, but you can see pages from a paper blowing down the sidewalk. Also, near the top, there's a big hole punched through what I think is supposed to be a fallen billboard. I've forgotten what I trying to do there.

And there are the spectators hiding around the corner and behind the car. I worked with a pretty small original size on this, and it shows in the lack of detail in the spectators' faces.

I also originally drew this with AmericaGirl stripped of her pants as well as her top. But her pantslessness, combined with the viewing angle, suggested more than I intended to suggest, and I thought it might go beyond the limits of what Yahoo! would allow. I actually debated whether to post it here now, but decided to stay on the safe side.

(At first, I couldn't remember which one I had actually let out. I had to look at the Wildebeest collection at udtqc's site to see which one is the definitive one.)

Superheroine fights are one area where you can still draw things that can't be recreated with video – at least not easily.