calendars

Browsing calendars on Amazon.com, I again started to feel like there must be some conspiracy behind the fact that at least 90% of the people depicted in fantasy art calendars are female, regardless of whether the calendars are marketed towards men or women. This reflects and promotes the sexist notion that females are for looking at, while men are not, and that females have beauty/mystery/allure, while men do not.

But again, the calendars on DeviantArt provided some relief.

This one by Mavrosh Stratiotis has many intriguing male fantasy characters.

This one by Apofiss has very cute cats (and a few owls). I got one of his calendars last year. They are so so cute; who can resist?

Journey Through Time is a calendar by Titia van Beugen. She has made some of the most gorgeous fractal images I've ever seen. But she hadn't posted anything since 2009. So I did a search and found that Titia passed away in early 2010 from breast cancer. That is why the above page still has the calendar labeled for 2010. However, DeviantArt always prints the calendar pages for the current/coming year, so it can still be bought.

Other calendars that impressed me:

Beyond Dreams by AquaSixio (Cyril Rolando).
An ethereal, dreamy calendar by RHADS (Artyom).
Calendar 2015 by BaxiaArt (Barbara Florczyk).
SciFi Calendar 2015 by ErikShoemaker.