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I made this one for Facebook a year ago but forgot to post on DA,but now it looks like a good profile picture to me so I'mma use it ^.^
The quality is crap temporarily because I had to save it from Facebook
and it messed with the quality a lot, I'll get home and make a better
version by the end of august.
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You know, this is surprisingly helpful in trying to figure out how to draw fully fleshed human beings in that position. You can even draw the human skeleton. I don't even know what kind of compliments to give anymore... The... The coloring is really nice in this picture! And I like the shadowing outline too.
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So happy you enjoyed it! <3
Yeah, you can figure out where the ribcage goes and everything else, so you wouldn't just draw a piece of rubber shaped like a human being if you understand the skeleton ^^
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I don't understand the skeleton very well, but a fascination with both contortions and very thin people is driving me to learn more. I think the ribcage and pelvis are the only bones I have a decent handle on.
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Oh we have the same fascination then, I love ribcages to no end, especially how they "pop out" while bending, which actually makes a lot of people cringe, but to me it just shows the beauty of the body that is otherwise not seen at all and I love the shape a lot. I always try to define the ribcage as best as I can ^^
I also love hipbones a lot and skinny people in general, though I'm not ready to say I'm "into" anorexic people, I love it when the person is skinny AND beautiful at the same time.
Also the reason why I love to draw super tight belts because it just shows the true skeleton shape so well and defines both the ribcage and hipbone to the best shape in my opinion.
But soooo many people hate these things, it's been years of struggle just to be allowed to draw what I like as if it's a crime to like drawing these things
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I will admit that I actually have a number of extremely underweight characters just because I love drawing the ribcage. None of them are medically anorexic, though, and are skeleton thin for different reasons (some even paranormal).
I would agree on loving, but not being "in to" it. It's so weird, in a good way, to just be talking to someone that actually understands my liking of these things
I saw those pictures in your gallery, and at first glance, I wasn't sure what to think of them. I'd never seen anything like that before. But after seeing more of them while browsing through your other pictures, I realized it way almost the same as my skinny characters, but being presented on a healthy person. So, really, your skinny belt pictures are the best of both worlds.
I fear that after I get more of my work posted, I'll have to deal with people not liking it. Personally, I don't think it can be wrong to like looking at or drawing things that others find weird. You're hurting anyone, so it really isn't bad. If I was encouraging people to starve themselves just because I like looking at their bones, that would be wrong. But I'm not. So it's okay
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I'm super happy that you enjoyed my tiny waisted characters in the end! To me it's just the same thing as contortion, it's that back in the times when corsets were in fashion people achieved some incredibly inhuman sizes of the waistline, like some Austrian countess who had the waist close to 11 inches in perimeter. I guess I just like drawing things that look like miracles in some way XD
I don't know, I'd say you should post more of your works and just learn to ignore negative comments. I had to deal with that in the past too, people would tell me every single day how much it hurts them to look at my contortion drawings. I don't know what changed though because I didn't get new comments like that in a very long while now... Seriously, I don't remember the last time someone was negative about my works... Ah yes, someone was recently pissed that I'm drawing so many tiny waisted characters when it's "not realistic" and "doesn't make any sense", but they no longer can post any comments because I blocked them right away XD
But anyway, I know it's not an easy decision, maybe you plan to use your gallery for some other things and maybe you don't want to mix "normal" art and "weird" art. Personally I post everything in one gallery on purpose because I like to be a hypercomplex individual
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I recall hearing that the goal in corsets was to get your waist small enough for your man to be able to fit his hands around it. There are even people today that have achieved seemingly insane things like that with their waist Like contortionists, you're either able to do it naturally, though, or it permanently damages you. It's another super power!
Honestly, I have already filtered what I intend to post so much... My interests are wildly scattered, so I decided to just post things that are either horror-like, or are just related. A lot of "cute" drawings are addding up on my uploading plans anyway, though. If I get more relaxed about it, a lot of anime and My Little Ponies will probably appear on hear. ... ... I'm now imagining a contortionist My Little Pony character... That would be interesting... I think...
I don't think anyone has ever gotten upset with me on deviantart, but then again, I've never really stayed on for very long. I'm quite determined to actually make something of this account, though, so might as well prepare myself for a little misunderstanding
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Yeah I heard the same about corsets, but I think they were just after as tiny as possible...like tight-lacing olympics. And parents had it done to their daughters because the smaller the waist the higher status husband they could find sometimes. I mean if the waist was super small, a lot of people would want to marry that girl, I mean noble people...it was only practiced in noble families I think, those who didn't have to do any hard work, so having a tiny waist was also the sign of a high social status, because the working class couldn't afford having tiny waists really.
Oh if you want I can show a very nice drawing of contortionist Rarity. I also always imagined Applejack being able to become a contortionist simply because I think she can do everything if someone gives her a challenge XD
Yeah I hope you will make use of this account and looking forward to your works ^^
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It sounds crazy, but just as crazy of things are done today to show status. It's all a matter of perspective in the end.
Contortionist Rarity!? I would love to see that!
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That is amazing- I'm gonna go comment on the original too.
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This one is also really amazing:
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Oh my gosh, it's adorable! I get so aught up in looking at fantastically real art, that I forget how much I love cartoony things like this.
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I always wish I could draw in a style like this! But even more so I'm so happy to see such a wonderful artist use their talent to draw some contortionists, too, which is super rare, even though it seems like it should be natural for an artist who draws a lot, to try some flexible poses too at some point, but in real life if you open any gallery here on DA you almost never see any flexible poses at all.
I could never really understand why, I think in every art school there should be a special exam only about drawing people in flexible positions, e.g. the students have to draw the human figure with the spine fully bent backwards with the head going between the thighs, and make it all look anatomically correct, and then they have to do the same with splits and maybe with feet behind the head, and if they can't draw it correctly then they should go back to study.
With this we wouldn't only get artists who can feel the body better, but also artists who are actually aware of flexibility because whenever I travel somewhere and go to any art museum, I never ever see a single artwork involving even the slightest flexibility, the best you can get is some rigid ballet dancer standing on one straight leg and lifting the other completely straight leg to like 90 degrees behind, and that rigid and angular position is always described in the museum as something "very elegant and fluid, the essence of freedom and grace, etc."
I sometimes get the feeling that artists literally rob themselves of this wonderful theme for drawing ^^
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Personally, I think your contortionist illustrations look much more "elegant" and "fluid" than ballet. You pegged the exact word that comes to my mid when I see ballet drawings- "rigid". The dance form in itself is once of those things that I acknowledge as being very difficult and impressive, but just don't like very much.
Despite my love of illustration, though, Art was my absolute least favorite class in high school. I didn't take away anything useful from it... I don't like being instructed on what to draw, and I only enjoyed the projects where I was simply given some guidelines I had to follow. Sadly, though, most of my class didn't like those assignments at all, so we did very few of them.
So if I were to take an art class that just asked me to study either some images, or some footage of a contortionist, and make some illustrations based on that, I'd love it. I can't help but think art is just hard to teach, though, since the entire essence of of it is individuality and self-expression. I think most "art" classes should be renamed "illustration" classes... Or geometry... Then again, I do know that there are some very fulfilling art programs out there, I just haven't been exposed to them.
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I tried to draw ballet and I tried to watch ballet on youtube, but I just don't see there what I look after. Bellydancing is a bit closer to what I like, but contortionism is the form of movement that is simply the closest to what I look after in body motion ^^
Oh I couldn't even draw a thing in art classes in high school, while I remember some others drew some beautiful flower pots. I wonder what they're drawing now o.o Then, I can't draw in the presence of other people in general, because I only like to draw what I like, and I tend to like stuff that makes me too shy to draw it in front of others. And I don't like drawing anything that I don't like XD
I find it super hard to teach anything about art, so I have no idea what to say when someone says "I want to draw like you". My answer is "well, I just draw what I like and that's all, maybe you just try to do that" ^^ I'm sure there are some common points in art though, that work for most or all people, but I'm probably a bad teacher because I just can't think of any really helpful advices because in my opinion art is only about self-expression and not about how well you draw. I only like artists who draw the same things I like and I never liked an artist just because they draw well. And why would someone want to draw like me is beyond my understanding, that totally kills the idea of self-expression in my opinion...
Yeah I think it would be fair if "art classes" would be renamed to "geometry classes" or "copying-what-you-see-in-front-of-you classes", because art involves the use of imagination and these classes don't teach that. Art needs the artist, not just the tools and some drawing techniques... I feel that even the word "creativity" today means something almost robotic, like a generator of ideas, not really self-expression...
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I got to see belly dancers once at a Renaissance fair, and it was amazing. It was also a very funny display, as they had scripted a little skit where they showed you the difference between belly dancing, and just throwing your hips around like a spazz.
I particularly don't like drawings stuff I've never drawn before in front of others. I'm pretty comfortable just doodling cute characters, or reference sheets. Animals too, but I don't really wanna draw the super creepy looking things, or the sad things in front of other people. I'm more comfortable showing them the drawings them letting them watch me create it.
The most I do when people ask me for drawing advice is make a blueprint of a human body, or something similar. I try to emphasize that they should really just figure out their own way to do it. A lot of the time they want me to show them how to draw cartoon or anime characters from TV, like I should know exactly how to draw in that style... I don't really like doing fanart much, as I can't draw in those styles, and I tend to just think the characters don't look like themselves when I draw them.
Just because, I looked up the dictionary definition of creativity. "the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work." Yeah, certainly not what it seems to mean today...
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I would never draw anything at all in front of other people XD
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In this position the guy is recognised in love.Β
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This is a very good skeletal view of a partial triplefold while looking
like he's going into a handstand while staying in that position.
I bet your newer version will rock this art site.
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Thank you so much!! 
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Would you be so awesome as to take into consideration making more skeleton based contortion illustration such as this, be them even as simply drawn as this one?
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I was thinking of it too! I'm not sure if my skeleton knowledge is that perfect though, so it would be probably done just for fun and not as a 100% accurate thing o.o
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Just for fun is enough. That's how it should be either way. 
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I agree, this is a perfect logo or icon or profile picture for you! Β I love it! Β To me, it looks like an x-ray of Alexi G. Β LOL
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Thank you so much! Indeed he looks like Alexey XD
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oooh another nice pic! fun to see whats going on inside!
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Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!! ^^
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Very glad you enjoyed it! ^^
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I really like it very much and it's very well done! I wanted to try doing something like this but I'm too afraid of ruining the skeleton and the number of bones. ^.^
Oh and I'd love to add this illustration to the featured folder of Contortion-For-All :3
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Thank you so much, I'm very happy you liked it! ^.^ I'm pretty sure it doesn't have the realistic number of bones either but that's okay :3
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Oh it looks very realistic to me and I don't think someone will count the number of bones in your drawing. ^,^ Or he's a physician or "kynΓ©sythΓ©rapeute" and knows by heart the number of bones in the human body. XD But I doubt this would happen. That would beΒ splitting hairs.
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