Exotique 7

What is it about beautiful women that have fascinated and inspired artists and sculptors over the centuries?

I’d like to give my humble opinion if I may. Grace-that word best describes the female figure. The beauty of a woman’s figure, its symmetry, supple lines and curves all combine to create a remarkable symbiosis of grace.

A woman’s face with its delicate skeletal structure, large moist eyes and lips framed by an over abundance of hair exudes innocence and yet personifies sexuality and mystery.


A beautiful woman’s body is sensual but it goes far beyond that. There is perfection of balance and form. Personally what fascinates me about a woman’s torso is how the abdomen and hips areas curve and play off one another. There are so different than a male’s lower torso. The slight bulge of the hip area does strange and wonderful things to the abdomen muscles. To me it is one of the most difficult areas of the female anatomy to draw because of the interplay of muscle, bone and sinew.


In Ballistic Publishing’s new book, Exotique 7, digital artists from around the world, most of whom use Photoshop, have assembled a gallery of beautiful women portraits that are visually stunning.


Exotic costumes, high-tech armor, outrageous hairstyles and makeup and interesting settings combine to make a eye-pleasing extravaganza of erotic and exotic portraits that any lover of the female figure is sure to enjoy.


A plethora of artistic styles and techniques are incorporated from soft airbrush to hard palette knife like paint application. Women are dressed in soft feminine attire to hard-edge mechanized armor. There are women shown in quiet still poses and high energy dynamic action scenes.


There are devils, divas, debutants, docile, dominant, delicate and the divine. Every conceivable type of setting, attire and design can be seen throughout this book. It’s an exhaustive examination of the female form in all of its beauty and feminine mystique.


From a technical point of view the artistry and sheer technical skill it took to create each and every figure is impressive and speaking as a fellow artist I marvel at the talent represented in the book.