#muscle fat distribution

[micahthemoon]

May 12 2024

I had the perfect opportunity to figure out one thing I’ve been wondering for months yet I didn’t take it. There was this little stand outside the local mall yesterday where you’d get your fat percentage measured. Now I’ve been curious if hrt have changed my muscle-fat percentage in any way yet truth be told I’ve had felt less great about my body this entire weekend and I really didn’t want to risk feeling even worse about it. I guess I’ll have to live in ignorance a while longer.

[scramratz]

If you have PCOS that means you’re intersex

I enter sex all the time

[skeletons-in-ur-closet]

i think i wanna try testosterone one day

[schnuffel-danny]

"how to draw chubby people :)" "how to draw real thicc characters :)"

actually I wanna draw people who are fat and straight up obese

[ms-newvegas]

Been thinking about “does my voice sound different than it did a few years ago” and I am deciding yes it definitely does. Partially because I lost the “fat voice” sound and I also think my natural testosterone rose just enough to take the shrillness out of my voice. This idea is informed by the fact that my body hair has increased significantly, still normal amounts but it’s like I stopped getting more hair halfway through puberty and then stopped. And it picked back up like a year ago lol

[pankomako]

this general image wont leave my head for some fucking reason

[0bsc3ne]

anyways. very few things bring me more joy than having even my biking gloves coordinated to my outfit

[minscofrashemen]

tells doctor I've been struggling with my ED again and while I work out to expect the fluctuations of weight and not talk in depth with me about it because I feel guilty enough

He understands and recommends me stuff

the nurses send my MOM a thing telling me I need to lose fifteen pounds in six months because I'm 'obese'....

i'm 5'9 and weigh in at 180....

[draw-you-coward]

did some figure drawing! :) really helped bring back some confidence and reassure me that i “still got it”

[denkilightning]

inside me there are two wolves:

1. give jay a runner build that would highlight his strenghts of speed and agility

2. give him triple Ds

[guyofthing]

Researching clothing for Cuimia is so so enriching I could look at roller derby outfits all day.

[mrnnki]

reminder to myself to get better at drawing fat characters

[dagasinfilo]

i feel as though it should be the opposite but i think my ass has become. firmer. rounder? on T. could it be from fixing my anterior pelvic tilt? though that doesnt make sense either cause apt makes your ass stick out more. shrug?

[herrscherofmagic]

tbh this is a problem I've had a fair # of times before, so I've thought about how to deal with it and a couple things come to mind!

one thing, which is probably the easiest & most helpful, is to just include a few key visual elements that are still associated w/ the character, even if you don't want to draw the full outfit.

In the case of Eden, that could be the pin in her hair, the bow, or even just the collar part of her outfit (so the band around her neck, but not the straps that go down and away from her neck

Another thing would be to emphasize some of the more unique physical characteristics of the character in question! That can be hard w/ the standard Hoyoverse smooth anime faces, but there's still a couple details (especially in hair) that can be made more similar.

Again, in the case of Eden, this would probably be

a) the two big side-parts of her hair, which come down from the top of her head

b) the large set of bangs that she has on her right-hand side of her face

c) the small side-part of her her that comes out from the front and towards her left-hand side

d) the long ribbon of hair that goes down from her right-hand side of her head and down over her shoulder in front of her body

Looking at your art again, I'm realizing that you might've kept Eden's front bang slim because you wanted to draw both eyes in full detail. That's just my assumption, but if that's the case that can be fine, but it's worth noting that it's going to inherently make it just a slight bit harder to recognize, so it might be worth covering up that eye for the sake of overall recognition!

The golden eyes are also probably worth focusing on too, especially in a portrait like your artwork where there's no outfit or other props to add extra color to the scene! but that can depend a bit on art style, and w/ a more realistic style you probably won't draw the eyes quite so bright and glowy, lol

Speaking of props... the 3rd and final thing would be the addition of specific props that are associated with the character! Alternatively, props that aren't ever shown w/ the character but which use visual elements frequently associated w/ the character, like in my first point

The obvious example for Eden would be using her signature golden cup ^.^

However, for a slightly different example, we can look at Kiana. Her earliest appearance in Honkai 3rd was the White Comet battlesuit and it's become a signature look for her, and one of its more easily-recognizable accessories the black-white-orange star headband Kiana wears!

So if you were doing a fanart with Kiana, and didn't want to draw that specific outfit but still wanted to have traits of Kiana to make it recognizable, then you could take the exact design of that star headband and incorporate it in a different way.

For example: a tattoo, a sticker, a t-shirt, a bracelet, etc. Or it could be a larger prop that she's carrying, holding, or using: a decal on a car, a design engraved on a thermos, etc.

That symbol alone wouldn't be enough to "prove" it's Kiana if you only saw the symbol and not the face of the character; but if you pair it w/ those other things, it'll probably help a fair bit.

A loooot of fanart tends to be copies of existing character designs, which makes it easy to recognize. So once you diverge from the usual outfit/design, and you draw in a style that's different from what media the character is usually shown in, it can get a bit tricky to keep them recognizable. But these few things are probably some of the best ways to try and keep the vibe of the original character even when you change the style and outfit and whatnot!

To wrap it up, I want to show an example using the HI3rd CG with Adult Mobius back in the Elysian Realm, cause I feel like it's a great example.

There's obviously a big difference in the overall appearance between "adult Mobius" and "child Mobius". Different body proportion, different outfit, etc.

But the Adult Mobius design keeps a few basic similarities in color (greens, whites, and blacks), and she keeps one of the signature accessories (the dual-infinity earring). And most importantly, the shape of the hair is nearly identical. That alone helps a lot in making the connection between the two different appearances!

This is a fanart of Mobius as an adult, which I remember seeing ages ago (link to the artist's original upload on Pixiv), and you can recognize it as Mobius despite being so different from the original design precisely because of the hair, the eyes, and the single accessory. The fact that she's doing vaguely science-y things helps too, of course!

As a quick bonus: setting/scene also helps! of course that can be way more challenging, but it would certainly pay off if there's a particular setting that folks are used to seeing that character in. For Eden that's obviously the Golden Courtyard, and for Kiana it might be the bridge of Hyperion, y'know? And in that last Mobius artwork, the fact that it's a biology lab also helps make the connection w/ the character, given that Mobius is known for her biological research.

[fullfriendnerdclutch]

Artie grinned mischievously as his friends profile started to appear one by one. The app linked to the saved contacts in his phone and somehow they managed to extract a fairly accurate profile of Artie's friends, resulting in a couple avatars that Artie can choose and tweak to his likings. The app, called Chronivac, not only changed Artie's physique to look like a 30+ years old hairy muscle hunk, it also molded the reality in accordance to the final prompt Artie typed in, turning the 20 years old college dropout into a bonafide hunk living life lavishly from workout courses and OF, and he's about to spice things up in the life of his dear friends.

He started from Randall.

He started very methodically as he put Randy as the new name. Then, when the profile options opened, he started his work. Get rid of the glasses. Get rid of that acne scar and blackspot. Retain the face but make the jaw angular. Styling the hair so it's no longer greasy and moppy. Face done, now the body

Randall is quite a perv and his biggest turn-on is big titties, but well, most untouched virgin are perv anyway so maybe he should make Randy turned on with himself by giving him this large pair of muscle tits? Lol, that's hilarious, he thought to himself. Humh.....so maybe keep Randy as a 255 lbs fuckers? Well, turn all the fat into muscle and click "Optimize" because he can't be bothered to perfect Randy's muscle distribution.....hot damn that's one massive unit! Finalize the whole change with the short prompt

"Randy is a gym junkie and absolute freak of nature. He's probably the biggest 20 years old in the entire Americas. He's one of my mentee and he looked up to me as his inspiration, he even will not hesitate to take my cock if I instruct him to do so to get bigger, quite the dumb oaf he is,"

Click Save and then Process. Several seconds later, a transformed Randy appeared in the room that Artie booked for this holiday. Randy appeared to be sleeping while he got altered earlier, Artie just realized it's night time in the States so no wonder Randy is asleep. He will check him out later as he still have several more profile to go

Andy. Oh, yeah, the profile arrangement is based on surnames. Coleman, Randall. Garcia, Andy. Andy is Artie's bestfriend from childhood so Artie knows very well what Andy really wanted to look like.

Keep the name and lineage. A little tweak in his testosterone to boost that facial hair growth and make that balls pumped full faster with mini Garcias. Andy admired his hotter, older brother, Juan, so badass and clearly a true symbolism of what Latin American community deemed as macho, so Randall ensured that whatever feature Juan possessed, Andy is going to make that even better. Thicker hair, more defined abs, bigger biceps, bigger triceps, rounder delts, voice that trembles anyone that hear it, obviously bigger uncut piece of meat, more tattoos, all lodged in as part of the new Andy's persona. The avatar is looking quite a looker already so Artie just added a bit of simple prompt, click the Save button and then Process the changes. Andy suddenly appeared in the day bed next to Artie, still sleeping soundly and Artie just smirked as he continued his work

He tweaked Ollie's profile right after, making the pale and lanky 6'5" Norwegian-Lebanese former ballet dancer to be closer to his Lebanese roots as he shrunk him to a 6'1" muscle daddy. Ollie, or Olaf, quickly turned into Ali, and just like Andy, appeared in the same resort where Artie stayed

Michael is supposedly next on the list, but James is already quite distracting for Artie so he decided to work on James first. He's really not that close to James and to be honest, if it's not because James is Andy's college roommate, Artie probably would have 0 interest to befriend him. He might be clouded with jealousy because Andy seemingly enjoyed James company, and even worse, a little crush on him, but well, with a reality-changing app in the palm of his hands, why should he accept things as it is when he can change it? So, rather than focusing on the physical aspect, Artie simply turned his focus to James mental part. He smirked devilishly as he turned the pretty-much straight James into a horny, lustful bottom. Artie practically emasculated James and he felt zero remorse whatsoever as he then added to the prompt that James tagged along to this trip as he's a clingy cum dump that Michael fucked once in the seedy bar that he and Andy frequented. Yup, that's the plot of his change to the innocent Michael.

Artie quickly tweaked Michael profile, the smallest and shiest one in the friend group is now the horny beast who needs to fuck a hole in daily basis. Artie based all of them in the same city, the same apartment building even and then created this whole backstory of their ascendancy to the top of OF and independent adult industry in Michael's prompt space. When he clicked Process, the sound of James moaning in delight echoed all the way to the swimming pool, Michael is basically fucking the shit out of James

The noise also managed to wake Andy's up. Despite seemingly confused at first, Andy quickly find his senses and instead of freaking out or reacted in surprise, he seems to be very much comfortable and at home. Artie sighed with relief, thrilled that his little handiwork resulted nicely.

It seems like that Andy is totally not aware that his life has been dramatically altered by his own best friend that just whipped out his cock from the swimming shorts he's wearing. With a grin while his right hand started pumping his meaty cock and the phone flipped and locked in the table, Artie said

"Care to help a friend here? We can drench Ali to wake the fucker's up when we are close,"

[wolframs-other-art-blog]

studied their form a little, got to know their structure and movement range, then i did some tracing (skeleton + shape) (mostly of my son) (look at him he's so cute) and i took notes on their faces and limbs. i was too tired to draw much for myself tough, so i'm gonna do that tomorrow + i'll do some converting into simple shapes

i think it all went pretty well, and i learned a lot

i'm gonna try to learn cat anatomy, wish me luck