The Challenge

...or "Are you Serious?" 

This article came through facebook this morning, and got me inspired to do something off the cuff.

When you look at fantasy images of scantily clad women, do you honestly stop and think about what it is they're supposedly coming up against?

Now, as an artist, I'm sure I'm guilty of doing this once in a while - "Sex Sells" and all that rot - but really, take one look at this image and tell me if you think she *really* has any chance whatsoever of winning against an armored troll with a battleaxe as big as she is while she's all decked out in her chain mail bikini and sandals. :| There is virtually nothing about this scenario that can go well for her. And whether or not I had posed it as a challenge or as a full on heat-of-battle kind of image (which I may yet do)....one swipe to her midsection and she's innards soup.

Does it show that she's a "powerful female figure"? - sure.
Does it show that she is confident? - absolutely.
Does it show that she is a "bad-assed , sexy heroine"? - ya.

But does it also show that she's probably a little touched in the head? - I think so... ;p