One of the first pics that were based on and inspired by a photograph of a woman bodybuilder in that pose. (If I remember correctly, this one was Astrid Falconi). I wanted to see what a flat-color rendering would look like; not bad, really.

I did catch a bit of flak, however, from readers who thought that the way I'd drawn her breasts made her look like she has implants. And now that I've seen quite a few more chests since that time, I have to agree; and were I drawing this today I think I wouldn't make the transition between pectoral muscle and breast tissue so abrupt. But I'm not changing this drawing; I like the look on her face, and the overall level of detail I put in the linework.

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