Debbie says:

Buttoven has some advice for budding artists:

Comics are notorious for drawing women’s breasts in unrealistic and implausible ways. There are always the “perfect” boobs, the ones that are shaped like perfect half-circles and never move or sway; there are the ones where the artist apparently didn’t think that “melons” was a metaphor; there are the ones in the wrong place (I’ll never forget a comic I saw in the 1980s where the women’s breasts were all located just above and inside their armpits, somewhere on the flat area of the shoulderblade.)

Comic-Con 2011 ended less than a week ago, and I can’t help but imagine that Buttoven was there (with 125,000 other people!), and saw more unrealistic ta-tas than she (I’m guessing) could stand. Her drawing reads like a simultaneously humorous and useful list of “what I saw that was wrong”: I especially like “Nipples are never on top of the breast,” “An exposed tit is like a teardrop, NOT a water balloon,” and “Boobs will separate if a woman is laying on her back.”

The drawing says “This isn’t the law of boobs,” but you know what? It isn’t the law of boobs like “the law that murder is a crime” but it is the law of boobs like a scientific law: accurate, reliable, and reflects observed fact.

There are at least two good reasons to draw tits correctly: first, it makes your drawings better, and second, it helps us appreciate our bodies. Buttoven hasn’t replicated Tee Corinne’s phenomenal Cunt Coloring Book; she’s adding a little to that work, however, and I thank her.