"How do I draw transfem boobs correctly!"
How is this a serious question that isn't dripping with transmisogyny?
They're boobs. You draw them like boobs. There is literally nothing about transfem boobs that makes them different from the boobs of people who were coercively assigned female at birth.
This is transfeminism!
I don't think this is true or helpful. There is likely overlap such that there exists a cis woman and a trans woman whose chests look identical. But the average trans woman's chest is distinct from the average cis woman's.
A few years ago I saw an artist do an anatomy study of the breasts of trans women. Trans women with and without wide shoulders, with and without >A-cup-size breasts, fat or skinny or in-between. It was massive for me. One of those drawings looked like me. I had never seen that before. Trans-favorable artists often depict trans women to look like cis women as a compliment and a concession. That is not what I want.
My chest, pre-surgery or post-surgery, is not unwomanly. It is a trans woman's chest. In early HRT, my areolas were puffy in the way that is common for trans women. Pre-surgery, it was AA-cup, which is not average amongst cis women but extremely common amongst trans women. Post-surgery, it's B-cup and has scars and a difference in shape and motion profile from the average cis women's breasts. Before and after, the breadth of my shoulders and ribs means my breasts look different.
My body is a woman's body and my body is a trans woman's body. It looks different from a cis woman's body. It is a woman's body. That is reality and that serves me.
I understand the value in depicting trans women with the aspects of embodiment that we often desire, and doing the same when creating digital avatars and such. It feels good to portray us as how our transition goals often fall.
But a trans woman's body is quite often different from a cis woman's body. Transfem boobs are often distinct and identifiable from cis woman boobs, and art illustrating the world as it is would have to draw transfem boobs differently. That is not transmisogynist and doesn't have to be hurtful.
None of this is true.
Cis women have wide shoulders, a cups, even aa cups. Cis women are skinny, fat, have puffy areolas, wide chests that make large gaps between their breasts. Cis women's bodies are just as varied as trans women's bodies and in the exact same ways.
You need to kill the transmisogynist in your head that is telling you otherwise.
Also, boob growing advice for other trans women:
1 make sure you're on a high estrogen dose your blood estradiol levels should be above 400, ideally 600 nm/l. If your endocrinologist sucks and keeps you on a starvation dose and E-level around 100 they are either unsupportive or don't know what they're doing, and you need to get a better endo or do DIY (a starvation dose makes you really weak and thus in more danger, I'm stronger now on high E). Cis women rest at around 120 but spike to over 1000 every month, which is when they build muscle and breast tissue itchy boobs is a period symptom and also the sensation of a growth spurt. An optimum level for results in us is a steady 600+ (over 700 can cause complications).
2 make sure you maintain a calorie surplus and are actively gaining weight. Large boobs weigh multiple pounds I'm a 34 D and I don't think I'm done growing, but that involved gaining 25-30 pounds (mostly on the hips). All in all my waist is still 29 inches so don't worry about that, just stay active. Boobs need fuel for growth, they are made of fat and you have to eat fatty foods and prevent your stomach from grumbling (calorie deficit) if you want them.
3 progesterone helps your boobs round out/fill up with fat. But my endo recommends starting that after a full year on just E to help simulate normal puberty.
That old study that says we only grow A cups is pure misinformation, it mislabeled sizes down by a lot. It's findings if labelled correctly is that the average growth (after 5 years) is C-cup. If you want natural boobs don't give up and do surgery right away, give yourself 3 years on a high E dose and calorie surplus to see where you end up (I'm a D with maybe 2 years in this state) and don't forget that growth continues as we age long term, so long as you don't starve yourself. If you're lanky you don't have to worry too much about a wide ribcage or shoulders either, and the lower body weight gain will help your visual balance.
This is me in a 34D with no padding
This is a 34D with 2 cups of push up (looks like 34F)
I had to gain 25 pounds to look like this, and I want to gain a lot more! (Also raised arms make them look smaller) In the 2 cup push up and a crop top I was getting a lot of good (non-clocking) looks at the mall the other day and even slight nods from other hot girls (sorry I'm riding a weeklong high on actually being hot now). It's possible! A good dose, (I'm also on an anti androgen), a helpful fatty diet, some (accidental) weight cycling and some physical activity
No padding:
Padding:
I'm in my 30s with 3 years HRT, I'm lucky with the Mom I'm taking after/genetics (and my hips somehow rotating/getting wider after 25) but it's absolutely possible with the right ingredients, and you can control most of them!
