Figure Drawing

This is probably my favourite of all of the (finished) figure drawings I did. At the very end, I got really bored and decided to make those black squiggly lines on the right side of the paper.

I think parts of her chin got lost in the drawing, as did the fabric she was sitting on. I really like the bright whites in her hair against the dark background.

I tend to prefer drawing dfab [designated female at birth] models to dmab [designated male at birth] models*. I am stating this partially just to make any cis male people reading this feel uncomfortable. Studies show that when cis males are singled out of a population, they are more aggressive than any other population when confronted.

*Assuming someone's gender from what one guesses to be the phenotypes of either the X or Y chromosome is rude because it ignores genderqueer, intersex, and trans individuals as well as many people who are simply androgynous**. As there is no good way to say "female-bodied" or "male-bodied" (as such terminology is often used to discriminate against trans women), the least oppressive terminology is dfab/dmab or estrogen-dominated body or androgen-dominated body. There doesn't seem to be any acronyms that I know of for the latter two but they could probably be shortened to EDB and ADB respectively.

**Human sexual dimorphism (the appearance of primary/secondary sex characteristics used to tell whether someone is most likely dfab or dmab) is actually very difficult to tell in many cases, as there are just a few genes (around 1000) separating dfab from dmab, those ~1000 genes being in the Y chromosome. Even though the "hourglass" body type is supposedly the most evolutionarily beneficial for giving birth, only 15% of dfab individuals have this body type. These and other so-called primary/secondary sex characteristics are more the exception than the rule for many. Thus, there are many people who do not seem to be either dfab or dmab at a glance.