Rounding out my themed set for  Osprey Hawk with an admittedly unlikely subject. Thanks to those all-black eyes, though, she usually comes out of a drawing looking pretty cute...

This raises an issue I was mulling over last night. All his life, a man is told that he's shallow, and that's why he's only drawn to women who meet the standards of classical beauty (that he's incapable of being drawn to a woman of less-than-perfect beauty unless he's berated for his tastes and forced to change them). Thing is, while we are indeed drawn to the likes of Dawn Wells, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mila Kunis, Morgan Fairchild, etc, it seems we're also drawn to the imperfect. While stunning beauty is always welcome, it strikes me the real draw is the feminine itself. I make my living drawing attractive characters, and sometimes they they don't conform to the expected norms. Sometimes they look like Rhonda here, or Teryx or Venus DeMilo or what have you. I think men have a soft spot for feminine characters, regardless of whether or not they're emblems of beauty as defined by the trades. Again, beauty/glamor doesn't hurt, but the femininity may be the main draw here. Cartoon characters tend (or at least tended) to be a bit more embracing of their femininity than live-action characters written by people who think the only way to depict a woman as having equal footing with a man is to basically make her a man with longer hair... Small wonder that in this age of media confusion we see the popularity of fictional females, of cartoon ladies from decades ago, soaring, whether they be glamor dolls or just simple sweeties. That's the hook Rhonda has here. She looks sweet, she looks cute. Never thought I'd say it, but she's a babe.