The discussion of Awefilms got me thinking about female muscle art sites, and how they have
also evolved (or devolved) over the years. Here's my take:
LH-ART: The granddaddy of the genre. I never forget receiving my first LH-ART catalog way back in the early 90s --
don't think I got a wink of sleep I was so excited. Then the website came along, and initially it was a great deal:
a shade under $15 a month for 4-5 illustrated muscle stories, a gallery of 20-25 pics, and a couple of animations.
But recently I've noticed they've been putting up a lot of very old stories that I've either seen before or where the art
is really second rate. Also they seem to have lost touch with the some of the talented artists that made them great --
Bill Quick, Chris Shapes (CST), Allesandra, AOS, and so on. So:
Pros: * cheap site, good value for money
Cons: * a lot their updates lately have been older work
* less work from their past great artists
* no new exciting artists (like Bambs, Stef, Artkaiser)
Amy's Conquest: AQ has been the main challenger to LH-Art, and they have been aggressive from the get-go, introducing top notch
illustrated stories from a wide variety of fbb artists. While the quality is excellent, the price is close to $20, the updates
are not quite as frequent as LH-ART, and you only get one or two new illustrated stories per update. True, they often include video clips and
written stories with their updates, but thats not something I am looking for when I subscribe to an art site -- I'll go to MA, FTV, Awefilms and so on
for that. Also their video clips, other than some amazing ones of Lisa Cross, are mediocre at best.
Pros: *quality of work excellent (better on the whole than LH-ART)
* great diversity of art
* constantly intoducing new artists
Cons: * pricey
* updates infrequent
* updates meagre -- 1 or 2 stories per update only
Fem-Power Extreme: (Tigersan) Another very new site from one of the legends of the fbb artworld, Tigersan.
It is reasonably priced and frequently updated. Now while I dont care for some of Tigersan's themes
("dickgirls", alien muscle), nor the way he draws some of his bodybuilders (sometimes with way too much muscle,
huge traps/necks and thick waists that make the girls totally unattractive), there isnt an artist out there who
is more innovative or more of a pioneer than this guy. He is constantly pushing the envelope, often times with
real exciting results (love his terminator theme recently, for example). His site also has a massive assortment of female
muscle, from heavyweight bodybuilders to lean fitness types. And he boasts more high quality animated videos (some
with excellent sound) than any of his competitors:
Pros: * high quality work
* highly original work -- Tigersan constantly pushing the boundaries
(eg. musclebound Tinker Bell, musclebound Vampire, etc)
* great variety of female muscle -- bodybuilders, fitness types, martial
artists, wrestlers.
* reasonably priced
* vastly more video animation than either LH-ART or AQ
Cons: * some of the art is very weird -- dickgirls, women so hypermuscular they are
totally unattractive.
Those are the three that I am familiar with. Like to hear what you guys have to say on the subject.
