#and all the images are of people with tiddies and soft fat
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Another day, another drawing fat people tutorial that seems to think the only people who get fat are people with estrogen-based endocrine systems and resultant fat distribution.
#now i've noticed this i can't unnotice it#SO MANY posts in the genre of 'random person decides to share their process' do this#and like they're rando artists they're not obligated to do shit but it does rankle#when they're like 'DON'T do this' (points at picture that looks very like an artist-stylised version of me)#or it says 'here's how to draw fat/chubby/heavier/etc bodies!'#and all the images are of people with tiddies and soft fat#WHO TO BE CLEAR DEFINITELY NEED REPRESENTATION AND OFTEN GET DRAWN WRONG#but please add like#a 'some' somewhere in there#and i honestly don't remember seeing a tutorial that was like 'here's how to draw fat people'#and it was ONLY or even half people with a more testosterone-influenced setup
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Art rant
They seriously need to make the PBS show How Art Made the World and especially the episode more human than Human easy to watch on line. If more people understood how we are hard wired to accept different representations of the human body, as long as they aren't uncanny valley, and have been making human forms with big eyes, long legs, squishy butt cheeks, and giant tiddies forever.
What are some of the oldest sculptures of the human form ever found? All those tiny stone age 'Venus' figurines. They're pregnant/fat with soft round bodies and there's no doubt they're meant to be a human.
They aren't meant to be realistic or a beauty standard you're meant to achieve, they're a celebration of what the artist loves about the female body.
All those Greek and Roman statues with their impossibly long shins and lack of tail bones have small junk because that was part of their society's vision of the ideal male form. How many of their female statues have soft round torsos instead of flat stomachs?
No one bitches the statue of David's hands and feet are too big.
Why are you spending your energy complaining about the size of the ta-tas on a piece of artwork made by someone who likes to draw big 'uns?
And do you think it's fine for the Egyptians to draw furries because they're historical, or actual depictions of 'aliens', but shit on modern furry art?
Did you ever see the cave painting of The Sorcerer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer_(cave_art) One of the oldest depictions of a human being in the world and the dude's dressed up as a deer.
And animation, how much of that started with big expressive eyes and giant heads? How many ancient statues look like that? You ever try to make an image of a person? You ever try to sculpt/carve one? You ever see instruction books about that and how they say most beginners make flat faces with big eyes at first?
If it's a feature you like and you want to emphasize and exaggerate it people will accept it as a representation of a human being. We're just like that.
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