I love, love, love Julie Bell's attention to detail in terms of musculature. Most of her artwork is of the sci-fi/fantasy/bordering-on-porn variety, and I love it. THAT is how you should draw naked people. Forms that are so accurate to life and beautifully rendered that it doesn't matter that she is the science fiction equivalent of whoever paints Fabio.
I particularly like this piece because I like comic book art. It's so distinctly American, and there is something about the way they portray action that I love. In a lot of other styles (I'm thinking of anime and manga artists right now) you'll get a real sense of movement and speed, but you don't see that here. They're just suspended in air, muscles mid-ripple. It's like time just stopped--you can almost hear the silence and the stillness, and you wouldn't expect that from an action shot. It's fantastic.
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