slumbermancer:

slumbermancer:

“oh but fat people / fat features are a body type i’m not familiar with drawing. it’s not something i’m very good at. it’s hard. i’m worried i’ll screw it up or do it a disservice” okay! that’s fine! i’m perfectly willing to believe that! art is hard!

do it anyways. try it anyways.

you’re probably not going to get it Perfect on your first try. that’s okay. do it anyways. then look at what you’ve done, think about how to improve it, maybe get critique from someone else. then do it again. art’s about practice, it’s about repetition and analysis and experimentation. 

i’m not expecting you to be an expert, especially not with how skewed society can be with positive (or even decent) representations of fat people, of our bodies. it’s entirely possible that it’ll be something outside your comfort zone. it’s entirely possible that it’s something challenging, or difficult. something you’re not good at.

but you can’t get better at it unless you try.

and if you really want to include us in your work, i’m just asking you to try. give it a shot. accept that you might not pull it off on your first go. look at how you can improve. ask people for help. then try again. but please, just try. 

i believe in you.

i should add that the reason you are able to make / comfortable with making art of thin bodies isn’t because of some inherent Skill, or Easiness, or because it’s a Default. it’s because you’ve practiced. it’s because you learned, because you practiced. you tried. 

if you’re going to make art of fat people, or if you want to make art that looks like us, you’re going to have to learn. you’re going to have to try. you can try.