#I'm kinda out of practice but

[unsung-idiot]

[meloartist]

alright

[quote from house, md]

[sysig]

Good skeles, like you lots (Patreon)

[heavendraven]

[REACTION SPEED - IMPOSSIBLE] Gracefully step OVER the cat

[wolfram-but-art]

mercenaries the typa person to say "is anyone gonna fall in love with that?" and then not wait for an answer

reblogs > likes btw \(^_^)/

zoom-ins under cut :3

the polka dot brush texture was made by ggutinho on DeviantArt btw!!

[effen-draws]

“Oh tragic clown, so much sadness now. You built your mountain and now it blocks the sun.”

Alts and lines under cut:

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! This question came up when I had family visiting, and I am genuinely unsure of how common this is

[tiedyedeyes]

and when you read my lips i know you'll feel my cold but i promise you, my heart is made of gold

[sensitiveheartless]

[bonefall]

post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do

Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.

Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.

Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.

And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.

In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.

She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.

So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"

But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;

Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?

And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.

If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.

It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.

Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.

Or this shit,

If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.

Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.

Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.

(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)

[declamationark]

Danny gets punted into the DC universe for some reason and proceeds to haunt Gotham because it’s gothic and there’s this hero cave with a bunch of cool tech (he misses Sam and Tucker) and this big family (he misses his mom and his dad and his big sis). He helps the vigilantes there with their battles and writes info he learns from spying on rogues on sticky notes (he misses clockwork) to leave by the files in the batcave. He thinks he’s being slick and stealthy but all the batfam realizes he’s there and basically pspspspspsps him into the family and somehow Danny never catches on

[doubleedgemode]

I redrew that one official illustration by Daisuke Ishiwatari of Order Sol and A.B.A looking cool in a forest, but took some artistic liberties. Still, I hope I've been able to manage whatever atmosphere the original is supposed to convey (I say this as a compliment, I think the original is one of my favourite Guilty Gear arts)

Surprise! I bring you a speedpaint of this picture. I'm very new to speedpaints so it ended up being so jittery and shaky I gave it (but I remark) a flashing images/fast movement warning:

https://youtu.be/mKpofAvS3qs

(If by any chance my drawing process interests you, I suggest you give it a watch, but obviously minding the aforementioned warnings, please and thanks)

[viky2318]

TRAUMATIZED DREAM!!!

I was sketching a DTIYS on my notebook, then did a small doodle on the side and found it to be better than the actual drawing. Sorry Passive, but you'll have to wait another day.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

i've been seeing a few cross in a maid dress drawings on twitter and i wanna contribute to the cause<3333

[toonagi]

learning to draw sonic characters for. reasons

they're so hard for me to draw their proportions are so different from how i draw anthros so i have to fight my own muscle memory ;-; this is my first somewhat successful attempt out of... a few (read: too many)

[moonstruckdraws]

You do know this... right?

Repo thought Luci was a boy for a very very long time. Moths can be subtle in their difference of genders, but generally females have larger wings and thinner antenna. Being mutated, and not having any other mutated moths to compare to, Repo didn't really have a lot to go on. He assumed Luci was a boy because of how small she was. Luci is also shaped more androgynously, and her clothes mainly came from Repo anyway. When they first met, she looked even more gender neutral. In the US, 'Lucy/Luci' is considered to be a unisex name and could be short for Lucius (a masculine name) or others, so Repo didn't really bat an eye when Luci said she wanted to be called it. When Luci actually looked up her name (spelling it the less common way as Luci), she found it to be a shortened version of Lucinda so she thought that's what her full name was.

Luci, not knowing these things at first, didn't think to bring it up to Repo when she found out and understood she was female because it just wasn't an important thing on her mind. But as she got older, and Repo kept giving her certain things, she wondered if he was aware of this or if he truly didn't know.

In case of any confusion: Luci is not trans (though I was quite tempted to). It was just Repo misunderstanding because I thought this would be funny. idk, I thought this was cute! And it'd be something Luci could make fun of Repo for (though Repo immediately telling Todd likely led to Todd telling Pico, and Luci would be forever embarrassed by it)