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A Breath of Fresh Air Takes Form in Drakerys
May 4, 2014 by dracs
Another of the elements has taken form in the world of Drakerys, the incarnation of freedom that is the Air Elemental.
The sculpt for this elemental captures its insubstantial nature well, with flowing strands helping to break up the outline. Although I find myself wondering, why is it that elementals are so often depicted as female?
Which of the Drakerys elementals is your favourite so far?
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” why is it that elementals are so often depicted as female? ”
Well the easiest and shortest answer is because boobs sell.
The more mature and sophisticated answer would be along the lines of women being generally accepted as being more befitting of graceful and mystical beings. Especially in the case of an air elemental, with grace, agility and a more slender form.
I suppose really the gender depends on the element. Water and air are generally more befitting of a feminine form. Fire and Earth are what I associate with a male form.
Me I don’t mind either, I can appreciate miniatures in both genders as long as it’s respectably done, which in this case I’d say it is. There’s an important difference between using the female form because it fits the style or aesthetic of something and simply using it because, point Nr1 “Boobs sell”.
Mythologically speaking we have a lot of women as elementals or elemental like beings. Gaia (A titan technically, I know), mother earth herself after all is a woman for obvious symbolic reasons (giver of life and mother to us all).
Anyway, as for the miniature itself. Looks alright, however I can’t help but be a little bugged by her torso being nearly cut in half in the middle. I don’t think that fold of air is well positioned. It just makes it look like it’s missing a small chunk of its body.
This is all true, but strangely enough most spirits and deities of the air and sky are depicted as masculine. Going just by Greek mythology which is the main bases for classical imaginings of the supernatural and elemental forces, we have the Boreads, demi-gods who represent the different winds are male, while the Titan Uranus is the dome of the sky itself.
Water, on the other hand, is most definitely depicted as feminine in the form of nymphs and other such spirits. However, here when taken in as a whole, rather than as a specific aspect of water such as a river, it also become classically represented as masculine, most notably in the Titan Oceanus who personified the world ocean which contained the inhabitable world.
With the earth this is once again reversed, with the larger world classically portrayed as Gaia while specific aspects of it, such as underground mineral wealth, were represented by male figures such as Hades.
Excellent answer Grim. Love the minis Drakery are producing!