Brain Dump
Side blog for my own original works, fanworks are posted on my main @zymple. Also where I reblog ideas and resources.
Original Works
Stuff I made myself.
Pang Jiun (Taiwanese, b. 1936)
Watery Wonder - Li River
2016
Oil on canvas 72 x 90 cm
Misty Mountains
1987
Oil on canvas
88 x 73 cm
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ALThey these are some tips for some of the little details in drawing fat folks that some people might not know!
everyone has fat on their bodies so its a worthwhile skill to have, but most art tutorials leave it out. heres some other good tips from artists!!
Also, please don't forget to draw fat necks. When I search for fat art, oftentimes the lack of a fat neck makes a character not look fat anymore because the artist basically just drew a skinny person from the shoulders up.
A resource I suggest is fatphotoref. You can also look at fat positive blogs for tons of photos and drawings that can help you learn how fat bodies look in different poses. Tags you can search on this blog include fat art, fatshion, fat athletes, and fat masc. Those tags are probably the best if you're wanting to use fatphobiabusters for pictures to help you learn how to draw fat people. Another tip I have heard a fat artist mention before is if you are fat yourself, use yourself as a reference photo. I hope this helps!
-Mod Worthy
Just wanted to tack this on for the sake of more reference, @adorkastock has a good bank of more high profile fat references with the model Lauren Ashley, here: https://www.tumblr.com/adorkastock/tagged/lauren%20ashley
Some refs will be paid, of course, since it's an indie stock photo company. But, it's often hard to find high profile fat people depicted at all, let alone kindly, and the people running it seem to be willing to take requests/recommendations for pose packs? (Sorry adorkastock if I'm wrong lol)
Yes! Always open for suggestions! Though I am my own model like 90% of the time.
LA is a regular model in rotation and I add new poses to my site gallery 3x/week. ♥
“this meeting could’ve been a email” except its “this esoteric children’s punishment could’ve been a normal conversation with them”
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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
Bookmarking this…
This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World
trans-man-named-marc asked
please please PLEASE i need your assistance
how do you manage to draw buff men im trying to make a comic but its so hard to draw buff men you make it look so easy i am so jealous
laserbobcat replied
- Be horny
- Anatomy (it’s hard that’s why you need the horny to fuel your efforts, took me years)
- Finished not perfect, finish your comics even if you don’t like them, next one will be better. Don’t get stuck in perfectionism
i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!
Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!
Gotta work on my bounce light 💪