Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)
OP Recreate Maiduo's Six Harmonies Spear Techniques from Ling Cage Season 2
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been despairing as it is so hard now to find references and photos of succulents and other things for my designs!! T_T
Video games kinda suck at designing female heroes
In 2002, the photographer Howard Schatz published a photo collection called "Athlete" featuring pictures of, well, various top athletes from every sport and genre. These are some of the women he photographed, and the thing I want you to do in your head is compare the variety of humans that you're seeing here to the variety of humans you see in the cast list of your favourite video games.
These women are all in peak human condition for their fields - if you wanted to design a character who is tough and strong, these are the kinds of bodies you should look to for reference on what that looks like. You tell me how many video games or comics or movies or anime create their characters with even this limited variety in shape and size.
Of course, realism is not the end-all and be-all, fantasy characters don't need to be realistic, but if you are given the chance to make a character look like literally anything and justify it by "magic," and the only thing you do is reproduce the same 3 or 4 generically hot women over and over again, you are doing character design very poorly, in my opinion.
the hq photo of both men and women
If you can find any of the fonts used in this hundred-year-old Cincinnati butcher supply catalog I would be extremely grateful
The logos in the first two images are hand-drawn.
"Catalog No. 31" in the first image, and "Boss Back Fat Skinner" in the second-last image, are in Lining Gothic No. 5 (1885) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:
"Manufacturers and Outfitters" is in Standard Gothic (circa 1905) [Fonts In Use]:
"Refrigerators and Fixtures" and "Machines and Applainces" are in Gothic Condensed No. 129 (1897 or earlier) [Fonts In Use]:
Gothic Condensed No. 129 was apparently later renamed "Gothic Condensed No. 529" (which is the name Fonts In Use calls it). Similarly, Lining Gothic No. 5 was later renamed "Lining Gothic No. 45" and then "Lining Gothic No. 545".
"For All Purposes, Small or Large" is in Lafayette (1885) [Fonts In Use]:
"Boss Hog Scraper with Belt Polishers" is in Bradley (1895) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:
"Patent Applied For" on the Boss Hog Scraper page, and most of the small text on the Lard Machinery page, are in Ronaldson (1884) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:
The paragraph describing the Boss Hog Scraper is in Fashion (1876) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:
"The Cincinnati Butcher's Supply Co." on the Boss Hog Scraper page is in Skeleton Antique (circa 1858) [Fonts In Use]:
Also note how in the above specimen they were transitioning from the old system of size names (pica, English, great primer, etc.) to the modern point system.
"Lard Machinery" is in Tudor Black (1878) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:
Note the art nouveau-y M, a shape not found in more traditional blackletter fonts.
"Patent BOSS Automatic Back Fat Skinner" is in Post Condensed (1902) [Fonts In Use]:
There's also some Post Condensed in the back of the last image.
"Directions for the successful operation of the" is in De Vinne (circa 1892) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:
There's also one sentence where De Vinne is used for emphasis inside a paragraph of Ronaldson.
Flexible feather armor
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NO ONE CAN CHOOSE WHO THEY ARE IN THIS WORLD.
Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)
(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.
✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)
chalcedony earrings by fred leighton
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A list of things I have noticed in LaDs pt. 2.2 ft flowers (ft Zayne and Sylus)
Hellooo I’m here doing more flower analysis. Take all of this with a grain of salt since I’m only doing a brief study into each and I’m adding my own stuff.
Pt 1 here ft Xavier and Rafayel
Sylus
So Sylus’ flower is the Datura, also known as jimsonweeds, devils trumpet, hell’s bell’s, and moonflower. Already pretty fitting. I dunno where in lore it says this (probably in his myth or something) but it looks like this irl
A list of things I have noticed in LaDs pt. 2.1 ft flowers (Xavier and Rafayel)
Ik this has been done countless times over but I wanted to put together the lads flowers together cuz it’s so interesting to read into all of them. Also I also know multiple flowers are attributed to the LI’s so bear with me
TLDR; getting into way too much detail abt flowers (thats not pertinent to the lore lmao) for fictional men in an otome game
Xavier
(I’m starting with him cuz I found the most interesting theories abt his)
His flower looks the closest to (and probably is) a Forget Me Not, meaning eternal true love, respect, remembrance, devotion/faithfulness, and royalty (King Henry IV made it his flower idk lol)
There is a European legend that states that a woman was trying to pick some flowers and fell into a river. A knight saves her but he cannot save himself so he yells “forget me not” to her as he gets swept away. The woman names the flowers Forgot Me Nots and wears them till her death.
Self sacrifice for a woman?? Hello?? Xavier????
"Tutorial" on how to "draw" a blind OC.
My kofi
Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general. Links below so that you can research and do a nuance. Ones that were directly mentioned are bolded.
People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I’d pass it on.
I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?
These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!
by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.
SPREAD THE WORD THIS IS FUCKING GOD TIER OH MY GOD, SOMETIMES I HAVE SPOONS SOMETIMES I DON’T BUT NO COOKBOOK OFFERS LEVELS IN THEIR RECIPES THIS ONE DOES!
also found here:
Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, pu
the ebook is FREE here also
OB11/Nendo/ 1:12 doll pattern resource list (WIP)
SK_shujin (https://kshujin.blogspot.com):
Pants + T-shirt + OP dress + Simple shirt
Puchi Collective (https://puchicollective.com):
Puki puki/Lati white t-shirt
Chelly Wood Kelly pattern (https://chellywood.com):
Dress composed of bodice + skirt+sleeves (different lengths). Includes tutorial
Looking for size comparisons I found that Kelly from Barbie is a 1/12 doll and patterns for this doll can be used on dolls of similar sizes, although length for skirts and dresses might vary.
Beth Alvarez (https://www.ithilear.com) Thank you very much for allowing me to post a direct link to your patterns!
Pukipuki leggings // Youtube tutorial HERE
Basic tee // Youtube tutorial HERE
Sundress // Youtube tutorial HERE
Strappy sundress // Youtube tutorial HERE
Yukata // Youtube tutorial HERE
Hooded cape
Winter boots
Bloomers
Coat
Tunic
*Please check the youtube videos for instructions on how to assemble the pieces and drop a nice comment!
Chuchu Doll HINA (@dolchu_sae on twitter, personal blog http://princesskiss.blog4.fc2.com/) has made a compilation of outfits that appear on Dollybird and they are available for printing directly on the link. I figure it would be easier if printed directly on fabric with services such as spoonflower but eitherway it provides the patterns!
THIS LINK includes:
Vest+shirt+shorts+bow
Witch cloak+witch hat
Two-tone dress
Pajama set
Coat+shirt+skirt
Yukata
Maid dress with bonnet
Dorothy dress
Chinese-style dress
Sailor uniform
Nurse (?) Outfit: Dress+overdress+hat
Irregular dress
Overall pants
Haru from https://chicchaimono.net provides the following patterns + tutorial on the blog (click on the big blue button to access them):
Hoodie
Jeans
Summer dress
Long sleeve T-shirt
Camo pants and shirt
Fluffy vest
Button-down shirt
T-shirt and pants set
Raglan shirt