Anonymous asked: Could I request a Dammek and Xefros cuddle pile with their lusus? It could just be a sketch if thats too much. Or, later, I can properly request it as a commission.
I think it’s very important for artists to vary the types of bodies they draw! Not only does it add visual interest and diversity, but different body types can enhance your characters! (Plus it’s more realistic; when was the last time you walked down the street and everyone had the same body type?) I know I have a hard time drawing different bodies, especially with men, so I’m making this tutorial to teach myself as well (I’ve heard the best way to cement learning something is to teach someone else).
So! Bodies! I’m going to use women for this tutorial because I feel they have more variety in their bodies. One of the most obvious ways bodies differ is in their amount of fat.
On average, people store fat mostly in core areas like the bust, the waist, and the hips. It is important to remember that people gain and lose weight differently, and this is true no matter how fat or skinny one gets. However, these are common places people store fat:
The face and neck can be immediate indicators as to how much fat the rest of the body has; when someone loses or gains weight, it’s initially obvious in the face. This is possibly because the eye is (usually) drawn first to the face.
In addition to differences in the amount of body fat, bodies vary vastly in their proportions. The two main ways they differ is skeletally and in fat distribution. The hip to shoulder ratio is skeletal, and someone with wider shoulders might look more powerful or masculine, and someone with wider hips might look more grounded or feminine.
The torso to legs ratio is also a skeletal ratio. Someone with long legs in comparison with their torso might look taller than someone of the same height with a long torso, and they might also look skinnier.
(I say as I finally get some visual variety all up in here.)
Because the hips are also one of the places with the most weight gain in women, large hips can also be a matter of fat distribution. The three main places where the fat ratio really matters is in the bust, the waist and the hips (making up the core of the body).
While men usually carry weight in the belly area, the fat distribution can really vary with women. Some women carry more weight in the bust, some in the belly, and some in the hips/thighs. Some women carry more weight in two areas, like the bust and the hips, the bust and the belly, or the belly and the hips. Some women show no obvious bias to any area and carry weight equally.
Taking into account skeletal ratios, fat distribution patterns, a vast human weight range, muscle tone and age, there are endless permutations of body types. It would be a shame if you used only one!
Oh, and that first image looks really interesting as a gif.
cringe culture mostly targets young artists. it also targets people of all ages as well, and oftenly autistic people. it’s so wonderful i’ve seen a lot of defending of kids art from cringe culture hell, but also defend adults too
people that like harmless weird stuff and like making aus of their fixations shouldn’t be bullied and humiliated. for a lot of people, the internet is the only place we can talk about our strange uniqueness
it’s happened to me since i was a child, it still hurts at age 21
i hope this is ok to reblog
defending kids is really great and important, but really there’s no age where it’s appropriate to make fun of someone for liking something ‘uncool’, being passionate abt interests, and enjoying ocs, aus, and self-inserts. whether someone’s 14 or 40, if they’re not hurting or endangering anybody there’s no justification for attacking them.
even though i’m firmly in adulthood now i still feel pangs when i see cringe culture bullying directed at anybody, because it is so exactly like what petty kids did to me from day one as a child. and it’s pretty disappointing to see that some adults haven’t learned a single thing since they were immature little six-year-olds making fun of the “weird kid” for not being “cool”.
What lots people consider cringe: Rainbow ocs, Mary Sues, self inserts, oc x canon, LGBT Headcanons, many crossovers, budgeted cosplays, amateur animation memes, music parodies.
What really is cringeworthy: Fetish porn
no…. fetish porn isnt cringeworthy either lol.
the only cringy fetish porn should be illegal harmful shit.
if an autistic person likes inflation or feet let them do their thing :/
What’s cringy is a bunch of grown ass adults rioting for some joke sauce or holding the show hostage for the sake of a ship
