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Reina | 19 | a self-taught artist

[taurzza]

wip

[dominiqueramseyart]

Primary tigers

[crowcrate]

:0

[thiingamajiig]

different, but the same

[izu]

ohhh mr. crime scene investigator ooohhhh

[modelsof-color]

Nyamec Mira at Chaney Chan Couture 2024

[symeona]

Tumblr ate my post, sorry if this becomes another zombie double post sjdnb

[knighthearts]

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

[knighthearts]

for those of u asking for the vid!

[missingaudrey]

[dustjacket9999]

Jessica Chastain | Viktor & Rolf Fall 2013 show | Paris Fashion Week

[wingwaver]

I don't usually click tumblr ads but that site has a lot of great drawing refs tbh

[wingwaver]

like look at these

there's gotta be at least one you wanna see your ocs or blorbos in

[dailydccomics]

Batman by Christian Ward

[pokeberry5]

the classic body builder physique jiménez gives dick is SO funny to me because it makes him look so female love interest coded, complete with unreasonable hour glass figure and booty-out poses

like ok i'm gonna start with a comparison between how he draws dick vs how he draws selina

there's that same!! exaggerated curve at the waist

the rest under the cut bc this is gonna be long—i'm pulling mostly from batman (2016) #137-138 (i've been keeping up with gotham war lmao)

he gives them the same sort of broad shoulders that taper down into a tiny waist

FURTHER, this is technically where dick's pecs are in comparison to selina's curves:

HOWEVER something about the way jiménez draws dick's lats also creates a curve lower down his torso that mimics the shape of selina's tits:

this exaggerated tiny waist is even more striking in comparison to how he draws other male characters

like don't get me wrong, he definitely favors a broad shoulder to slimmer waist sort of build, but never to the extent he goes with dick

take bruce and tim from the same chapters:

their shoulder to waist to hip ration is a lot more equal, they've got much more of an rectangular build, the curve in at the waist/hips is gentle

and i swear jiménez chooses poses to exaggerate dick's tiny waist (not quite booty-out poses but the same sort of vibe)

like????

SIR??????

this sort of twisted side pose to show off the tiny waist is extremely reminiscent of the contorted poses comic artists put female love interests in

take this side by side comparison with a panel from nightwing (1995) #1 (i read it recently so it was on my mind):

there's even!!! the drawn back arm highlighting that inward curve!!

AND THEN

the booty out poses!!!

rip his back honestly

like i'm pretty sure the design choice was actually to emphasize he broad shoulders and show off his nightwing symbol, but imo all it does is makes his waist look tiny

tldr: strong female character dick grayson ig

Ok as thanks for getting to the end, gratuitous batcooch:

and a tiny dick sketch

[highlysusceptibletodisaster]

This actually makes a lot of sense if you consider Dick's training historic

He has been training trapeze since he was a child, which is a sport that really develops these muscles.

Making a comparison with artistic gymnastics rings - which is not the same as a trapeze, but is easier to find studies on it - You will notice that the most developed muscles are the muscles in the pectoral and arms.

This video shows the development of muscles in this part and in the butt to maintain stability.

Also, these are photos of a brazilian athlete Arthur Zanetti, olympic rings champion in 2012, and you can see his muscle development.

I chose him because he is the athlete I am most familiar with and I think of him as a good example in this case. But if you want to see another example, this is Igor Radivilov, a Ukrainian artistic gymnastics athlete specializing in rings and vault.

The first image is from the 2023 artistic gymnastics world championship, in which he came fourth in the vault.

But do you know what the two have in common? Both are considered "old" for their sports. Zanetti is 33, and Radivilov is 30. If you look at the most recent prominent athletes, you will notice that their musculature tends to be more balanced because their training has evolved and changed.

But if you take a Dick Grayson, who has trained trapeze since he was a child and probably maintains most of his habits - because, if you are an athlete, you know how difficult it is to change your technique - it is natural for him to have greater development in these specific muscles.

Look I didn't review this and this isn't an absurdly detailed analysis, there are thousands of articles that can explain this better than I can but I like talking about sports and Dick Grayson.

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[aleyma]

Cameo suite of jewelry, made in France, c.1840 (source).

[transmasc-wizard]

i'm AWARE this is a stupid hill to die on, but like. trope vs theme vs cliché vs motif vs archetype MATTERS. it matters to Me and i will die on this hill no matter how much others decide it's pointless. words mean things

[transmasc-wizard]

trope: 1) the use of figurative language for artistic effect; includes allegories, analogies, hyperbole, & metaphors, among others. 2) commonly reoccurring literary devices, motifs, or clichés. Includes things like the medieval fantasy setting, the Dark Lord, enemies-to-lovers, and the Chosen One.

theme: the reoccurring idea or subject in a work of art. Death, life, rebirth, change, love, what it means to be human, the definition of family, the effects of war, etc.

cliché: an element of an artistic work that has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even becoming annoying or irritating. (Most clichés are tropes but not all tropes are clichés.)

motif: a distinctive repeating feature or idea, such as the green light in The Great Gatsby. May overlap with tropes and is often used to further explore the theme.

archetype: a constantly-recurring symbol or motif; it refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling. E.g. rags to riches, the wise old mentor. Again may overlap with tropes, clichés, and motifs, but they're not the exact same thing.

[atompowers]

[melonnabar]

Halbarry