forget your perfect offering

A blog for whatever strikes my fancy. "Ship and let ship" and "depiction is not endorsement" are my fannish mottos.

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[asteriavinifera]

Do you wanna go watch the sunlight pierce the leaves of the forest with me?

[catilinas]

friendly reminder that [the most cherrypicked interpretation of the text possible] <3

[foulfolly]

DOODLE ATTACK!!!!

(lastdivantruther is my old handle btw, these doodles are like 10 months old...)

[one-paper-bag]

reblog if you’re asexual, support asexual people or really really want a crossbow for literally no reason.

[regnigt]

Katsura through the series (fanart), part 22

In Volume 66 we see the end of the Battle of Rakuyo arc and the start of the Silver Soul arc, last and by far the longest arc of Gintama. I picked this heartbreakingly wistful if-only panel to redraw.

"So, what do you think of our skills as negotiators?" After all these serious drawings, I needed to pick a funny one again. Not shown: Shinpachi crushing the communicative device while thinking, "It's just poop."

[tittino]

Some stuff and things pulled straight from my sketchbook :))

Those Vörjeans guys really did a number to my brain but they solved my art block 😌

[nohoperadio]

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.

[inafieldofwhitelilies]

Katsura likes cute and fluffy things....but if he gets too distracted Gintoki will eat his yokan for sure 🥴

[cactusringed]

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

[mutedtempest]

Yeah back in my first years of undergrad I was a nude model for figure drawing classes. This was 20+ years ago so I wasn't nearly as heavy as I am now, but not thin either and had noticeable fat on my frame.

I was absolutely terrified the first class session and almost cancelled. But everyone was awesome to me and I was able to hold the pose really well.

What was really gratifying was getting to walk around and look at a lot of the students' drawings after - with permission, of course.

I had always considered my fat shameful and disgusting but seeing the way these artists were able to have the light hit it just right and show fluidity and beauty in how it fell is honestly one of my best memories.

And it wasn't just one! I saw maybe ten of their works and all of them made me feel so incredibly beautiful. I had never even considered that other people could see me naked and think I looked as good as they drew me.

Now that I'm heavier, yeah, I want to lose simply because I get short of breath walking up a flight of stairs and it's difficult to put on socks or get off the ground when I happen to sit on it.

But I don't hate how it looks. It's not possible for me to because I know that if I were to model again for a class like that, the drawings would look just as beautiful.

So yeah, if you're bigger and have the opportunity, try to be a model for an art class. It's not only invaluable to the artists to have a real person to draw but you'll be so respected and probably very surprised how amazing you look to them.

[cactusringed]

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

[elkcx]

[whosname]

[id. Gintama fanart. Digital salarymen au drawing. The joui4 peeking around a corner. Takasugi is taking a photo with his flip phone. end id]

[audible-smiles]

the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.

[regnigt]

Katsura through the series (fanart), part 21

Volume 64: The Joui Four reunion! I think this is the first time in this series that I've redrawn a canon panel in a more cartoony style, as opposed to doing freestyle doodles that way.

64, bonus pic: Katsura posing on a cannon while tossing a bomb. I have always been struck by how sorrowful he looks in this moment, but I wasn't able to capture that as well as I wanted.

Volume 65, which heavily focuses on Kagura's family, has no Katsura panels. I have long wanted to try to draw something imitating the style of a haiga painting, and here is such an attempt with Katsura. Because of the Yato theme of the volume, he is walking in the rain underneath an umbrella.

[number1villainstan]

*stumbling into the room with a haunted look on my face* the egg is the coffin

[rw5853227]

kaguraaaa ... the umbrella episode Who awwed

yepppppp Heh. shes awesome

[regnigt]

The umbrella half-episode is a masterpiece 😤

This fanart is so cute!! 👏👏👏