#JUST GIVE THEM WRINKLES

[localgardenweed]

Ok regarding the new illustration of China can we talk about how one WHY DOES HE HAVE A DUMPY look closely and he has like a fat fucking ass and secondly why does he have the most like womanly thighs and body shape ive ever seen my first thought when i saw it drop was “THEY TWINKED HIM THEY GOT HIM THEY GOT YAO” like the “They Got Gina” Vine. I know he was already a bit twinky but he’s entering “That one guy in every piece of BL/Yaoi/MLM written by a straight cis woman who can’t fathom the fact they are both guys and do guy things and look like guys so has to make one feminine to be able to cope and not in just a casual way like no thats just a girl, they just last minute slapped the BL Yaoi Gay MLM title before print” territory. I know men can present themselves in any single shape or form but its the specific undertone it gave off. I almost started talking about how in the context of this being a piece of gay media it makes it worse but completely forgot IT ISNT like “oh yeah the fandom is gay fr and hetalia the creature just queerbait fuck” I dont know if its just me it’s probably just me but it just made me give a slight side eye, anyway that was my two cents. Also WE CAN ALMOST SEE HIS DICK WHAAATTTTTTT WHY CAN I PRACTICALLY SEE HIS COCK AND BALLS??!??!

[milolovesbmc]

"Old men yaoi" You guys couldn't even handle Whizzer and Marvin

[archduchessgortash]

I wish we had a little bit more appreciation for Gortash's actual body.

He's most likely body type two due to his height and how his clothes fit our companions with the same basic body type. I KNOW there's no in-game model of him without his clothes. Damn, you, Larian 😡 [shakes fist ineffectually]. If there was one, though, he would be built about the same as Gale, Wyll, and Astarion.

Body type two is fit, well-muscled, with ripped abs but not crazy swole like body type four.

Gortash is average height, 5'8"-5'9" (175cm) based on the official Larian tweet saying Astarion is 5'9" (because they're the same height). He weighs 150-165lbs (75kg) based on in-game stats for body type two. Weight in-game oddly varies by a little over an entire 'stone' when you swap between metric and imperial measurements.

I almost never see shirtless Gortash without a body mod that gives him a beefy torso and arms that don't match his in-game model in the slightest. When he isn't beefed up, he's pudgy.

I love my men in all shapes and sizes. The art of him with different bodies, including (maybe especially 🤔) femtash, is AMAZING. Keep it up, all of you! Please! 🙏

I just recently noticed that I haven't seen Gortash looking like himself in much besides some beautiful posts from Asian artists on Twitter. The default Durgetash ship is well-fed there. I only wish default Durge didn't have a tail so often, but I digress...

I'm totally behind pre-game Gortash being somewhat more muscular in his youth, and many years post-game Gortash becoming an actual, squishy bear, but he doesn't need all that extra muscle or squish to be appealing.

When I see him like that, I feel like the fandom is reinforcing the perception that only jacked young-ish men and dadbod older men deserve the level of devotion we offer this fictional man. Can't we just admit that a man with an average build (above average, really) and a terrible haircut, but a brilliant mind and a spectacular voice is unbelievably sexy independent of his physical form?

(Also, don't call him dirty or say he doesn't wash his hair. Your bigoted caucasian is showing.)

I agree on him being sleep-deprived, however.

If I could imagine him being a Pact of the Tome warlock, which I can't (unless he was a warlock of the celestial with Bane as his patron 🤔), he would definitely have the Aspect of the Moon Eldritch Invocation from Xanthar's Guide to Everything, which would allow him to never have to sleep again.

He would need it for the Absolute plot's timeline to make a lick of sense...

[kradeelav]

Hello! I want to learn how to draw content on the more spicy side, but I'm unsure where to start. Do you have any tips/resources for it? I would love to make Corrin/Gunter art and some of my other favorite pairings. Thank you in advance!

on the practical/technical side:

having a solid understanding of anatomy helps, of course - the basic bone structure of course, but how skin, fat, muscle hangs as well. you don't actually need to watch live-action porn to get references (i never have believe it or not), but i do follow a few historical kink/bear magazine archivists online. personally i find that there's more of a variety of beautiful shapes and humans in those old photos, and you generally know it's consensual since they've personally submitted them.

you also can't go wrong with reading other erotic comics ... i say comics vs illustrations since you start to see the pacing of these scenes like any other human interaction and the tools the artists use. when does intimacy turn into foreplay? when does the artist/mangaka zoom in to capture the sensation of the moment? what clever tricks do the artists to capture the climax when the bodies are all pressed together and when finding a good camera angle is tricky? how do they show the heightened feeling with symbols and textures? how is kink power dynamics shown with characters in different positions? do you show faces and the expressions to show the pleasure or not? what comics feel cold and manufactured to you versus ones that capture real eros? why? etc.

on the mental side:

if you're anything like me, you might have a lot of shame to untangle when it comes to harder varieties of erotic art. (i hope not! not everyone does. but it's unfortunately common given the societies we live in.)

it's going to take a while, and it's going to feel really weird at times when you draw something that's uncomfortably intimate or taboo, but that's when you know it's working and you gotta keep pushing through.

you gotta keep drawing.

privately, i have a personal rule that i'll draw anything at least once; if i feel afterwards that it turned out to be a personal squick, i won't go there again, but that guideline has been marvelous to start breaking through the manufactured idea of disgust and also just to experiment with putting myself in other people's shoes about what they find hot. sometimes it's surprising! i've learned a lot.

lastly, on that note - draw what you find deeply intimate. forget about other people. selfshipping? the most niche kinks possible? the kink that feels like the internet can't stand? who gives a shit about them (no taste, the lot of them).

draw the human. the tenderness, the visceral, that overpowering desire for you that almost scares you with how intense it is and that sends your brain alight.

that's going to be timeless.

[sciderman]

i simply CANNOT get behind the current movement at marvel where they insist that peter parker and johnny storm would ever grow out their facial hair.

this is a formal CEASE AND DESIST. wildly OUT OF CHARACTER for both of them. this is GROSS and INDECENT. stop IMMEDIATELY.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Sometimes I can sit down and actually get shit done. Sometimes I can attempt that realism bit. And then I get too tired of blending, so whatever the fuck this is happens, and I'll just accept it. Close ups under cut.

[ookaookaooka]

i just spent ages looking for the post, i swear i posted about it when i broke my beloved fish plate like a year ago, but now he's finally back together! i just have to wait a week or so for the resin to cure , and then i can go in and wipe away the excess gold. even though the process was frustrating and VERY time-consuming and i lost motivation halfway through and let it sit on the shelf unfinished for like 14 months, i'm glad i went to the trouble of learning how to actually kintsugi it with resin and gold instead of rushing it with epoxy and mica powder.

the before pics (freshly broken and after the initial gluing):

[operationjetset]

wish more ieytd fandesigns looked older if that makes sense. not phoenix i dont care what people do with phoenix make that beast as unidentifiable as humanly possible but. im not sure. all of the existing humans in this game are in their 40s or 50s to me i cannot comprehend a human design of the fabricator without wrinkles and huge eyebags yknow what i mean

[squuote]

sorry all I draw is them im notokay

[ladyinthebluebox]

beautification mods for female NPCs (especially) have to go and fucking die.

[satellites-halo]

just saw HLVRAI fanart so fucking bad I had to immediately block the creator to contain my rage

benrey would NOT be a fucking twink he's an old wrinkly man

[milolovesbmc]

Actually yes make them a little ugly, give them wrinkles and body hair and eyebags. Don't hold back, they're middle aged men for Christ's sake

[chatonyant]

One more, im in a mood

look i need people to draw plum blossom sword saint as an old man oK?? OK??? HE IS 80 SMTH CAN HE HAVE WRINKLES PLEASE

[morrigan-sims]

the whole "family"

I made Rook's mom in the sims because I was bored and wanted to see what she'd look like. Gorgeous, as it turns out!! Which isn't surprising given her son is the most beautiful man of all time. Rook doesn't even know her name or anything about her, and has never met her, since she handed him off to Alistair at the first chance she got. Rook has no interest in meeting her because of that, plus the fact that in his mind, all birth/legal family is awful and fucked. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't have a mother.

[peliginspeaks]

Reference for Hallowrove's scars!

First death: Lost the Feducci duel, got impaled with his lance. Would have healed more messily if Oversol hadn't been there to take it out and help afterwards.

Shapeling Arts first aid: stabbed in a dock brawl, patched up creatively by Haarsink

Vake: first encounter with it in BaL, the text mentioned it raking its claws down the player's legs while holding their shoulders and the image just stuck with me

Upper River Beast: sometimes there's a Big Fuckoff Flesh Creature. Lingering scar from an out-of-game roleplay incident.

Others: no consistent canonical placement for the assorted small scars, except for none around the eyes. Definitely most of them are from monster hunting or clambering around over walls and other types of Hallowroveish Activities they get into out of curiosity, but a couple lighter and older ones are from absentmindedness when they used to do metalwork and mechanical stuff on the Surface.

[designernishiki]

personally im totally fine with majima’s latest design having just a Hint of white hair like what’s been shown on his latest model, but I think we all know realistically, based on how his life has generally gone, that man should’ve went grey at like 30