What annoys me most is all the drawn women, even where their gear otherwise looks reasonable, are wearing spikey high heels. Contrariwise, breast plate shaped over the boobs seems a likely thing in a world where people wear armor a lot, since historically male armor (for the rich people) presented fake abs and chest. And, you're on target, magic-wielders could and would likely wear any old thing or no thing. Some of the partial armor could be explained as enchanted gear. Breast plate with a v for cleavage and a gap for mid-riff would be suicidal of course, although possibly explained as covered by glass-steel plate or chain.







The other annoyance is stiicking shoulder armor with spikes and armored shins on obvious spell-casters. Well, then there is the presumably paper-thin plate armor, which if the skinny girl wearing it had thick armor on she would be a mere skeletal figure underneath, since there isn't space for the body under the armor.





So this picture is damn good. It looks like actual armor. I wish the artist had shown her helmet sitting at her feet, as if she had just taken it off before being surprised from behind. Here, she looks tensed up, so her shoulders are riding high as she clenches her weapon.







Still, a lot of character art could be explained -- in game terms -- as an artist's depiction of the character, rather than his or her actual depiction. "Yeah, that crazy gnome at the fair drew me that way, but it looks good!"

