I’ve never been a fan of Greg Land’s artwork. It’s pretty, yes, but it’s also incredibly stiff and posed; that becomes even more obvious when you find some of the magazine shoots he’s used as reference/tracing material. Quite often, women’s heads don’t quite match up to their bodies, as though he’s taken the face of Faith Hill and put it on the body a random swimsuit model but couldn’t quite line it up naturally. Either the neck area is completely shadowed out, or the woman just looks like she’s just emerged from an appointment with a radical chiropractor.
But this (and the piece it links to) is just totally awesome. Land is far worse than I’d imagined.