No Spike???


I've been looking for an excuse to use this gif.

To me the male body has lovely lines ... it is the shaping and toning that draws me in.

Oh indeed it does - or it can. My sweetie studied artistic anatomy in art school and did a lot of painting, drawing and sculpting of nude male models from live models - most of whom were retired, aged, not in great shape; or were but, um...yeah....

Get myself out of the hole I'm digging myself in here...I think what you mention, shapes, tones, lines, are why I'm drawn to Sarah's face in the late seasons rather than her more rounded face in the early seasons. She's too thin in the late seasons but there's the planes of her face to play with, so much shadow and light. Early seasons Sarah is the same problem I have with Michelle (Dawn) - how to make icons without making their faces look like dumplings? *lol*

So, I think I understand. One needs surface planes and shapes to work with. That's why I thought an icon of Angel's face would be terrific to play with. *le sigh* next time.

so that one of Joyce was typical of that theory.

But it has a nice balance - the set of her mouth, her curls; and I liked the color you chose precisely because it's the color I asssociate with Joyce, neutrals - a warm camel or fawn color. Buffy wears the same color a lot but especially that long leather coat we see repeated in S7 - from Him to EP and End of Days.