Drawing What YOU Want and the power of the FICTIONAL WORLD

The discussion below might get a little mature, to avoid getting in trouble, anyone under the age of 15, please go back to playing with Legos. Visit this article when you’re 16.



I had another article in mind for this week, but after seeing Tantz’s article yesterday, I was hugely inspired to do a different one instead.
And that is, drawing what YOU want and using the fictional world to your advantage.

I’m a firm believer that you should create what you want, not what someone else wants, but I do also think there are some basics you should know/do but that doesn’t mean “don’t do what you want.”
Such as, it’s always a good thing to learn basic human anatomy. (or really basic anatomy of everything.)

Now… why should you learn basic human anatomy? So you can exaggerate it without it looking messy.

As Tantz’s pointed out in her article, someone attempted to “fix” a piece because… whatever their reasons were, anatomy, the amount of sexiness that MJ was clearly oozing out of that piece? Whatever.

Personally, I don’t think there’s anything really wrong with the anatomy, I can sit in that position (it’s definitely uncomfortable, I tried it before doing the article, not fun BUT not impossible) it’s just not gonna look as good because I’m a real human being… Not a FICTIONAL character in a FICTIONAL WORLD of SCI-FI FANTASY where you CAN LITERALLY DO ANYTHING TO AND WITH THE CHARACTER’S BODY SO WHY NOT DO IT??? ← that may sound bad depending on what you’re thinking about… but seriously, if you’re given the opportunity to exaggerate some things… why not do it?
If you have a super realistic story, okay, no problem, but please don’t crap on other people who want to have fun.

I draw my characters the way they are because I think it’s fun, I like their designs, I think my characters are cute AF, I’m not gonna change their designs or their anatomy because someone out there thinks I’m ‘sexualizing’ the women/men of my comic. If I want to draw my characters in crazy positions or exaggerate some features, OH BOY, you know I will. I AM ALL FOR THAT. I LOVE exaggerated poses, I love exaggerated anatomy, I LOVE art. I love art of every kind! (except that banana duct taped to a wall, that was wrong.)
I’m not gonna go over to Picasso’s paintings and PAINT OVER his paintings because the anatomy is wrong, am I? NO. I love that. I live for that. I love seeing artists with different styles, I love seeing people put out different energy into their art works. This is something we should cherish. Why on Earth would you want to “fix” someone’s art or bash the way someone draws women or any of their characters? So what the women look sexy AF in a cover art or in a comic? Who cares? Why do you care? What’s wrong with drawing sexy women? As someone who believes in empowering women, I also believe letting them feel sexy, look sexy and act sexy is SUPER empowering.

Personally, I feel like when people have issues over the physical appearance/anatomy of a character, it’s because they have some deep insecurities about themselves, trust me, I’ve been there… when I was in my teens, as a grown woman now, I acknowledge these characters aren’t real and as someone who tends to draw very curvy women, I don’t have a main attraction towards just curvy women in real life, I actually find all different kinds of women attractive and I also find men attractive too. I know there is a huge difference between fictional characters and real people and how I draw doesn’t affect how I view people in real life.

Also, since when has big breasts been a strictly sexual thing? Breasts in general can be very appealing, but please don’t go around saying that women with big breasts are just sexual items because YOU look at them that way. They are REAL people and they are more than allowed to be represented in media. Same with tall women, you ALL know Lady Dimitrescu by now… and while I have not seen a woman over 8ft tall ever, tall women exist and apparently the tallest woman to have ever lived was 7’7” soooooo, y’know, these people have existed. Also if you come at me with the “Men talk about tatas all the time and how they like huge tatas and treat them like sexual objects.” - I mean, don’t you treat what you find attractive as a sexual object? You can still value them like a human being, but are you telling me you don’t have ideas or fantasies about them and the features you find so attractive?
Some people are indeed horrible to those who don’t give them what they want, but they’re just not respectable human beings then, but that doesn’t mean everyone who enjoys drawing well endowed characters aren’t genuinely good people.

Anyway, I’m kind of going on a tangent because I’m super passionate about this subject. I’ve often been asked why I draw my girls so thick or do what I do and that’s because I want to, I enjoy it, I think curves are fun to draw and I think everyone would be a little happier if they just did what they want to do when it comes to art instead of what they think they should do.
There’s nothing wrong with realistic, cute, sexy or exaggerated art. You do you.

Have you seen Matrix? Remember those crazy moves that Keanu Reeves aka the best human being in the world does in the movie? Realistically, no human can really do that, they used wires and in some scenes it was people in green suits with like a green table helping them out, you know how boring and unappealing it would have been if someone was like “STOP, this isn’t realistic guys! The anatomy doesn’t work like that!!! We gotta be real!!!!!!!!!” that would have been so boring.

The fictional world grants the creators great power. It’s up to you to use them however you want.

P.S. I'm sorry if you felt attacked at some point during this article, but this is just how I view the world and I can't change the way you felt about this article or about the things I said, but if you're offended by someone saying they enjoy all kinds of art and they believe you should do what you want, then I think the problem is you, not me.

SEE YOU NEXT SUNDAY :D