I just want you to know that the way you draw top surgery scars is so insanely affirming to me! The little bit of skin that overlaps and sticks out like a triangle (honestly I’m doing a bad job describing it, but can’t include pics here) right near the sides and underarm area? That’s SO AMAZING AND REALISTIC! Like Paul Bunyan in the comic you drew for the Transfixed anthology!
Like most top surgery rep is draw with the skin falling flat, but when you draw it, it looks like the way it is on actual real bodies.
It’s very beautiful! You highlight the natural way trans bodies look after surgery and make it beautiful and sexy, so I hope you’re proud of that as an artist!
Oh gosh! Thank you so much for this lovely lovely ask! This really made my day.
After top surgery, like most folks, I spent a long time looking at my own chest and falling in love with it. The weird wrinkles around the scars, the puffiness of the scars in some parts but not on others, and my dog ears.
Dog ears are caused when the skin around your sides is stitched back together. A LOT of folks get them, but aren't always ready for them because they're often not featured at all in trans art.
I want so badly to show genuine bodies in my work. I want to show the wrinkles, the imperfections and the dog ears because that's what I have. That's how I look, and I want other people to see themselves in art!
[ID: Crop from several of Jey's comics: Paul Bunyan, Transman a short story in the Transfixed Anthology, Alola Darumaka, and Jey themself in their Oh Joy Sex Toy comic, featuring people with top surgery that include scars, wrinkles and dog ears. /end ID]