More creepy than smart

In my opinion.

Seb wtf

but how can u be a good artist if you dont draw men

Exactly

My primary goal is just to draw what I want to draw. Which isn't men. I'd rather draw still life than men, and thats just how it is.

I thought you wanted to draw anime?

I'll get to drawing anime style one day. Once I'm able to draw still life and females to a decent degree of realism.

you dont need to know realism to draw anime

I was told the contrary by many artists, and so I stopped trying to draw anime as an entry point.

"Gotta learn the rules of reality before I break them" is what I was told.

eehhh

thats partially true, but you can still just draw anime, since it seems you'd be content with drawing mediocre art

I'd rather stick with a route that eventually leads to non mediocrity if I can.

>but refuses to draw men
ok then

It isnt even liking to draw women over men

Its a complete lack of it

@clippy but he finds them unattractive

Like that should matter

Youre basically drawing with your dick

I wont deny it. I've always picked female over male ever since I could remember. Wont even play male characters in an MMO.

I know I'd dread every moment drawing a male at all, and be dissatisfied with the work regardless of how bad or good it is.

but in all seriousness, if you really want to be a good realist, you're gonna have to draw both men and women. But since you refuse to draw men, you're going to stay mediocre so I suggest you just draw anime. I mean it's definitely possible to become a good anime artist by just drawing a lot of anime.

I'm unsure of how not drawing a male would hold me back any. Its basically a flattened female with bulky arms, legs, and a less rounded face.

I find drawing all the curves in a female body far more challenging.

If you want to argue semantics, females are basically a smaller version of a male with a larger chest and more hair.

if you want to draw females your whole life, all the power to you. But the reason its important to learn both is to understand anatomy better, which is the core of drawing humans. For example it will help you identify why certain features may look more masculine or feminine.

My gauge usually ends up being a mix of "does this look attractive" and "does this look close enough to the reference", and I erase if something doesn't look the part. Basically ends up filtering out any masculine characteristics in the end, since I'm not in favour of them.

so you're always gonna draw off a reference?

Pretty much how I've been doing it the past 54 days. Drawing from observation of images or still objects in the same room as me.

your reliance on having a reference is going to hold you back in the future if you don't draw males as well

Primary reason I use references is because I was told to use them to improve.

Yea, it's good to use references, but you aren't going to forever

Anime is all about simplifying realism, and understanding what details to neglect whilst still making someone look feminine or masculine, which is hard to know if you don't have a fundamental understanding of both sexes. The difference between a mediocre artist and a great artist is a mediocre artist blindly follows what others do but a great artist understands *why* they do it

maybe im giving anime too much credit since its one of the easiest styles to draw, but whatever

Theres actually a part of me that wonders if I'll even touch the anime art style anytime soon, since I only picked it out with the assumption it'd be easier than realism. And then I was quickly told otherwise, and that I needed to learn fundamentals first.

My main context for even wanting to draw it was to be able to make reference drawings for 3D models.

But even in the 3D space I was told to learn how to 3D model real people first.

Ended up with a cycle of, if I wanna get good at 3D modelling people learn to draw and then 3D model reality first, and that if I wanna learn to draw, draw from reality first.

If you wanna be a good artist at realism, you just have to draw both men and women, hell, you have to draw all sorts of stuff, kids, old people, animals, whatever. It's part of reality and it will all help you understand it and how to portray it more. If you absolutely refuse to draw males, you're preventing yourself from becoming a better artist, you're limiting yourself just because you're attracted to women only.

And no, you don't need to know realism to draw anime. You could even start drawing anime and then move to realism because anime is a more cartoonish, simpler style.