if you dont mind me asking, how do you draw men? For some reason, i am only able to draw girls. Thank you <3 (your art is wonderful, it makes me happy to see you draw my favourite characters :))
Ok, let’s go! See these two figures? These could be male or female (or any other gender the individual identifies as). For this exercise I will not go into detail on how it applies to many different body types (because there are so many other factors that go into body types and gender, especially fat and muscle, this is just gonna be simplified).
What I’m saying is that you should do an exercise where you draw genderless bodies. And by that I mean, throw all the gender assumption you have about how ‘male’ bodies and ‘female’ bodies should look. This figure up here could be anything.
we see specific genders and our eyes are taught to identify specific features to them eg; broad shoulders, thick arms, the ‘dorito’ ratio thing (broad shoulders, small waist), yet on women we see small arms, small waist, small shoulders, large chest (small small small, boobs, butt). Look past it. Women also have thick arms, broad shoulders, thick waists, men can have large butts, small shoulders, small arms.
Just experiment with drawing different features on different bodies really.
These pictures are to show that you can use your skills of drawing female bodies, or bodies you feel look feminine. This middle figure is just to show that most of the features are the same (but also that women do have their fat distributed on their thighs, butt, boobs, belly). The third figure is added muscle to the arms, shoulder and legs (this figure, like the first, can be any gender).
