#queer cyborg

[leaky-heart]

Malfunction

[cy-cyborg]

Tips for writing and drawing amputee characters: Stump Scarring

This was something I had originally intended to mention in this post but felt it deserved its own separate post.

A lot of people, when drawing and designing amputee characters, draw their characters with these big, gnarly looking scars all over the stump. I get why people do this, but in reality, most amputees have stumps that look more like this:

The only scarring that is inherent to amputation (meaning most amputees have) is a very thin line right at the tip of the stump that comes from where the stump was sewn shut. After 5-10 years though, these thin incision scars will fade to be nearly invisible in most folks other than the indent it usually leaves in the skin.

Of course, there are exceptions! My own legs are covered in heavy scarring like the pictures below.

but typically, you only see this in amputees who lost their limb in ways that required them to also need skin grafts, such as from a burn (fire or acid), gangrene, some types of rapid-onset sepsis, or particularly brutal animal attacks.

For context, I used scars from meningococcal as reference here.

I think this is another reason a lot of people, particularly in 2D comics and animation, cover their amputee character's stumps, because they think all amputees have scars like the ones in the second image and I'll be honest, that's a lot to draw when you're drawing it over and over again, but unless your amputee also needed skin grafts bcuase of their injury/illness, their stumps will look more like the first images.

Fun fact: on particularly pale skin, scars can change colour depending on temperature. scars have less circulation and the blood vessels are closer to the skin, which means if you don't have a lot of melanin, your scars can turn a grey-ish purple colour like so:

This information is brought to you by an especially pasty white person in the southern hemisphere (where it's winter atm) who's scars haven't seen the sun since june lmao.

A quick final note: If you look up "burn scars" or any other similar type of large scarring on google a lot of what you get are fresh scars, so they're going to look different than the ones here. On pale skin, large scars like the ones above start out very dark red and will fade to look more like the images here. The same is true for dark skin, typically fresh scars will be much darker in colouration and will fade to be closer to the natural skin tone with time, though on both, they will always be very visible. Some types of scarring on darker skin tones can cause the skin to become lighter, but they don't usually turn entirely light pink like I've seen some folks draw. This is why it's so important to look up references of the type of scar your character has AND how that looks on their skin tone.

And as always, listen to POC and seek out the recourses specifically made by them, especially if you're drawing characters with darker skin tones. Their lived experience will always beat my "what I found through internet research and from talking to friends"

[bakedbananners]

I don’t really care about “defining” Murderbot and ART’s relationship I think they’re both uniquely insane human-adjacent but Not Quite sentiences that defy total human comprehension. Murderbot is the only way ART can contextualize human experience. ART is how Murderbot allows itself to be vulnerable because it literally doesn't let it be alone in its brain where it can generate 5 trillion faulty risk assessments per second. ART gaslights Murderbot into thinking it died and then shoots missiles at the colony when it gets kidnapped. They made a kamikaze AI baby together.

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: In the Upper City, they do illicit trade of cyborg servants over the legal human percentage limit. I steal them, which is to say I save them, whether they want to be saved or not.

[cy-cyborg-draws]

I downloaded Nomad sculpt and decided to test it out by sculpting my chonky boi, Nix, and considering how out of practice i am, i really like how xe turned out!

[ID 1: A 3d bust sculpt of Nix, a smiling, fat purple dragon with a yellow underbelly. They have dark purple spots, some of which partially cover their eye, and darker purple horns, with gold jewellery in the form of an eyebrow piercing, small hooped ear rings, a hooped nose ring and a golden cuff around their right horn. In this image, you see them from the left side. /end ID 1]

[ID 2: Another render, this time showing nix from the front. /End ID 2]

[ID 3: An animated gif showing a turntable of Nix's bust. /End ID 3]

[dreorcaul]

FOR MY FRIENDO @thegreatermassofdeath I drew his big man saving his uke! COME AT ME JACK

[yamikuruku]

experimental portraits but it's two space idiots ✌

[akudamalive]

Scary Eerie Fierce Horror Japanese Girl Woman Android B&W Manga Panel 1 // もう逃げ場がない Artwork by Akudama GFX (2023)

[imaginal-ai]

"Cybernetic Glamour" (0006)

(More of the Cybernetic Glamour Series)

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[whereserpentswalk]

My Halloween costume! ^_^

Gender euphoria! ^_^

[metallicumbrage]

I've put off posting this cause I didn't get it done in time for pride month, but here's a piece I did for my girlfriend and I since we didn't get to go to any pride events this year 💖🏳️‍🌈  [ID: Umber, a cyborg creature with red LED features, a metal chasis, and organic limbs, walking alongside its partner Blimp, a pink furred demon fox with five eyes and ram-like horns. Both are marching happily during a pride parade and being showered with confetti. Umber is holding the queer flag over its shoulder, while Blimp is holding a large nonbinary flag on their shoulder. Umber has various pride magnets on its thigh and tail. Blimp is wearing a shirt that says "PRIDEMONTH" fading into the word "DEMON".]

[bestqprshipbracket]

Best QPR Ship Group 2 Round 1

[nyxthedragon225]

Thabk you Cyborg Franky for being the representation i never knew i needed

[cabi-leodrann]

COMMISSION OPEN

Payment via Paypal only, I don't have anything else. I kind of don't have money at all, and can't really count on my parents to help with that. So if you wanna help out a queer, neurodivergent, art school student, you'll get a cool drawing out of it =D You could also just spread the words if you cant get anything

If you have any questions, my ask box and DMs are open at all time

[cy-cyborg-draws]

I've been wanting to draw more artwork of Nix using their wheelchair, since i realised pretty much all of their art so far has been with their prosthetics outside of their reference sheet, and I wanted to fix that.

I do think I need to practice my backgrounds more (especially trees and water lol) but otherwise, for something a bit out of my usual comfort zone, I'm pretty happy with it!

[ID: an illustration of Nix, a purple dragon with a yellow underbelly walks along the shore of a lake. They are using a cart-like mobility aid to support their lower body as they do not have any back legs. They have their wing outstretched as though they're about to touch the water. /End ID]