This piece was done for WPD's This Week jam, the subject for the week being the classic Iron Man villain, Madame Masque, which coincidentally, was one of my selections randomly-chosen because not coincedentally, Iron Man was always my favorite comic as a kid. Madame Masque was also one of my favorite villains, though frequently terribly drawn. As in, chick in leather, with a Luger, and a yellow face we are reminded is supposed to be metal by the rivets along the perimeter. Over the years, I only saw a few artists try and create a truly mask-like visage, largely unsuccessfully, I think because it looks to rigid for the dynamic emotions and scenery-chewing drama this character employs in an effort to derail Tony Stark's fleeting states of blissful sublimation and denial, with brainless bimbo girlfriend X. I chose to take a middle ground approach, rendering it metallic, giving smewhat less detail than I might otherwise use, and playing up the stylization factor by allowing her to be heavy-lidded in satisfaction at somehow having de-helmeted ole Buckethead. I thought it was a sexy pose, so I gave her lounging position a shot, with the playful toying with her boot that some women have down to a science (particularly with heels) but I admit one serious misstep was the fact that her legs look compressed in a way that suggests her IT bands have been torn and her kneecaps shattered, and I made it worse by choosing this inopportune time to use a realistic knee-shape that I frequently see but never draw because it doesn't look right aesthetically on paper to me (the double groove shape, or what Jack Hamm calls "overlapping rounds" in his classic Drawing the Head and Figure. But anyway, fun fun fun Iron Man villainy!