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Scruples is more related to one's own conscience than to fear. If a client hasn't settled the matter with their own conscience, they have no business being in that chair.

"Scruples" doesn't really apply to a neutral medium, just content. And it applies more to the artist than the client. Suppose Kelly Christian opens a tattoo parlor, Living Epistles. S/he does a few tats for church friends right away. Once or twice a month, s/he gets another Christian or benign...

I was speaking of content. You are speaking of medium. Ultimately, the medium is neutral (so that IS the other person's problem), but we are expected to judge content to a certain extent. I don't think that working tattoo artists fail on the medium front, but rather, in terms of content.

Context is everything. Besides, that is them, not me. Their criticisms being wrong doesn't somehow make porn, the occult, etc. more acceptable. That is just the pendulum swinging the other direction.

@farouk I wasn't really going for reality as much as a type.

It is a figure-type, sometimes known as the "gladiatrix." She is a heavy-set mesomorphic body type. Wonder Woman & She-Hulk are good examples of that type. That figure is very often associated with porn images, too, but that is a stereotype. Did you know that Jane Russell was a born-again...

They're mine, but I wouldn't rule out Someone Else... ☝

Drawing human figures well requires an almost medical understanding of external anatomy (a.k.a. eidonomy). I choose the figure that I am going to use by how well they fit the scene that I have in mind, a bit like a casting director. The "Wonder Woman" figure is a great figure but does not fit in...

That is a generalization. Their repertoire is usually available for all to see (to promote their business). If it ventures into darkness, it is unmistakable, and is fruit by which you can judge their spiritual status [Matthew 7:15-20]. (They might even be saved by grace, but their dark works are...

It's hard to say. I am very objective with the human body. I have to be. I am a caregiver to my 25yo daughter. I see everything. When you are not a caregiver, gender separation is the norm, like it is with my two non-autistic daughters. And it is black & white. My autistic daughter is pretty...

...and 1 Corinthians 10:23. (Why are you including "tattooed [people]" in this question? We should be past believing that I oppose tattoos, by now. Have I become a proxy for the "fundamentalists?") Regarding vaping, "bad" doesn't always mean "soul-damning." It can mean unedifying...

@farouk It's off of the web.

@farouk Her black lipstick is part of her swan vibe.

You are taking the concept of "idealism" in a different direction than what I meant. All fictional superheroes are idealized forms. When real people engage in idealism, their expectations don't always mesh with their reality. That is important for real people. Fictional characters live in...

@farouk Her black lipstick is part of the allusion.

@farouk If you look closely, her figure is modeled on a trumpeter swan.

@farouk No. I was going for a heroine with a sonic-based weapon.

They should. It needs to be part of their business setup, too, or their scruples will be "thrown under a bus" along the way.

I was referring to "your wife and wife..." (unless that wasn't a typo... :eek:).

It can't be all that conservative, then... :p