let my mind drift

As an artist with a focus on fat and trans bodies, my understanding of the human form comes from seeing variety.

I admire bodies that don't fit into the ideal form, because they are all the more common and all the more ignored.

You can find a million drawings featuring fat bodies that are drawn with the sole purpose of being appealing due to following the ideal form. Whether it be because our eyes have gotten the idea, through repetitive influence, that that form is *ideal*. Or for audiences to lust after.

Finding art depicting variety in body types, in fat distribution and structure, is very.. very hard. Sometimes, if you want to see more of something, YOU ought to be the thing you want to see more of.

If you truly want to be a body positive artist, learning to draw a generally appealing fat body is less than half the battle. Thin bodies have variety in fat distribution and in structure. Fat bodies just accentuate these forms.

Practice the ways fat falls around the body, see how it feels when you let yourself play around with the human form. Have FUN with it.

another lil marker portrait study! #brbchasingdreams

You can only understand

the serenity of that peace

If you have seen the shores of where

We all must meet

the Ferryman

But to see

And to float

On those waters

So dark and so deep,

You must first surrender to

endless sleep

We are few who have

tarried at the banks of the River Styx

Catabasis and Anabasis

κατάβασις kai Ἀνάβασις

With Charon vociferafing,

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