Anthology of tips for drawing, not mine but useful

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.

How to draw ears, by me.

i'd love to help!

my biggest pieces of advice:

don't treat being an observant/religious jew as oppressive, this is what nearly every single non-jewish writer does and it automatically signals to jewish readers this story isn't for us just like the majority of jewish "representation", come at this from a love/respect for judaism or don't write it

ask jewish bloggers who are open to questions for more specific advice

understand that there is no universal experience, every individual jew has a unique relationship with judaism

denomination of judaism does not dictate level of observance, there are heavily observant reform jews and secular orthodox jews

to give you a jumping off point so you have an idea of what to ask, ere are some articles and posts detailing do's and don'ts

Don’t Jewish There Was Better Representation?: A Guide to Writing Jewish Characters

Writing Jewish characters, and what to avoid

Writing Jewish Characters

#writingjewishcharacters

Writing Jewish characters, and what to avoid

“Thirteen” Tips on Writing Jewish Characters (note on the point about Judeo-languages, if you are writing canon-verse Bucky, historically he almost certainly would have spoken Yiddish)

A guide to 13 Jewish holidays

Thirteen tips to writing about kosher

Three Types of Jews I’m Done Seeing Goyim Write and Six Ways to Write Better Jewish Representation

“36″ Jewish OC Questions (for oc's but works for this too)

A “brief” reference guide to modern Jewish denominations

some other resources

18Doors

My Jewish Learning

Ritualwell

Chabad Lubavitch

Reform Judaism

Reconstructing Judaism

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

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Blue’s Tail Feathers Compendium: Tail Feathers for Flight

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]

I didn’t forget the tail feathers! I was just caught between getting mad at the lack of extensive research into all tail feather types beyond swallow-tails and many anxiety attack :D 

I get asked quite a lot: Are tail feathers important.

Yes! Yes they are! Very important!

There is outrageously not a lot of research on tail feathers and how it impacts flight, lift, drag, or anything else so I had to make my own paper models and use a hair dryer for a wind tunnel to test lift. :D I have so many papercuts now.

I had to split the tail feathers up and make my own chart because there is no official determination or umbrella grouping of different tail feathers. Accessory tail feathers like you see on peacocks and such will be in the second part.

Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Atypical Wing Shapes

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]

A compendium of different feather marking types that can be used for inspiration in writing and art; especially if you want to be explicitly clear on the markings and don’t want to just have “striped” or “spotted”.

Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Atypical Wing Shapes

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]