Little Secrets.

Lewis Chamberlain (British, b.1966)

Scene from an Imaginary Ballet - pencil on paper

Ginger Haired Man - painting

Night Garden (The Sandbox) - pencil on paper

A World in the Evening - painting

Night in the Garden - pencil on paper

Alarm - painting

Giraffe - pencil on paper

Farm on a Plain - painting

Space Hopper - pencil on paper

A Village - painting

Roundabout - pencil on paper

The Winter Visitor - pencil on paper

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

Misognynist straight men love to talk about how disgusting female bodies are when they menstruate, or they have body hair, or they're fat, or their tits sag, or they don't have perfect skin, or don't have pale skin, or their noses are big, or they otherwise don't fit into some impossible plastic hollywood aryan barbie doll beauty standard.

Finding female bodies disgusting doesn't make you gay. It just makes you a raging misogynist. And a transphobe.

You should unpack that, probably.

Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not horror and disgust.

It is normal to feel completely neutral about the bodies of people you are not attracted to. It is not normal to feel horror and disgust. If you're feeling horror and disgust, you've got some fucked up psychological issue or deep-seated cultural prejudice that has nothing to do with your sexual orientation.

ETA:

So far I've had two transphobes in my notes bending over backwards trying to justify why it's normal and healthy to violently retch at the sight a naked human being who you don't find sexually attractive like I'm sorry you've been so brainrotted by puritanism that it's given you brain damage, and even sorrier that you expect me to take you seriously enough to debate with you rather than simply block you and let your guardians deal with you like the tantruming toddler you are.

Some of you have never seen your grandma's tits and it shows.

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so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

A large strawberry squid, one of three caught on the last trawl of the Deep-See cruise. Photo: NOAA Fisheries

I got some bills coming up soon, so I'm going to be doing a new batch of mini-portraits! 16 slots to fill the entire page with 16 panels! each slot costs $30 usd, but please feel free to tip if you're able to! I appreciate it a lot, But I understand if you're not able to!

hanabi

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea