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"Meanwhile in Tucson"

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Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.

One of my long term fandom friends (back from ye olde message board days of yore) has been posting for weeks about how her teenage daughter is “out of control” and she just posted in the facebook group about how her daughter has ruined Christmas by deciding to be a lesbian and the whole group just went “Karen, you’ve been writing gay m/m slash fic for three decades” and she went “but that’s different, that’s not REAL” and I’ve never tried to actively set someone on fire with my brain before but

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Any tips for anatomy? Or

how do you avoid same face/body syndrome?

- an artist who is being strangled by anatomy studies 🥲

Shapework before details, line of action before shapework. Don’t jump into the details unless you have sound basics first.

For what it’s worth, my shapework is very angular/blocky (diamonds, triangles and squares) as opposed to rounded.

Some things I sort do automatically/without thinking:

- Elbows at waist-level

- Top of ear aligns with top of eyes, bottom with the nose tip

- Mouth on same level as where face curves into jaw

- Side of head is flatter than it is round

- An unclothed arm looks like a chain link.

I can’t give you any secret ingredients outside of drawing a lot of varied people! Young and old! Especially old, there’s actually a lot of character to cheekbones and wrinkles a lot of newbie artists are wary of playing with.

Anatomy studies can be hell, but remember what I said about breaking the details down into shapework. Your brain will be able to comprehend shapes better than it does trying to mentally trace over an image or still life.

For same-face syndrome, break the face down into its shapes (Remember the planes of the main face, side of head and cheekbones), and play with length or width of the separate components. Different types of noses—button, flat, sharp, aquiline, etc—and different types of eyes, among others.

For same-body syndrome, I’d say the same thing, but I’d also encourage you to watch pro-wrestling. I’d actually encourage a LOT of people to watch pro-wrestling for body studies since they do have a larger variety of bodies than standard ‘combat’ sports (as wrestlers don’t necessarily have to be ‘perfect’ specimens to actually be successful in their work) and they’re almost always in dynamic movement. Pro-Wrestling is where I honed my skill in drawing buffer folk! Which you can probably tell since I lost my ability to draw bishonen a LONG time ago.

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?