shadesofmauve | The return of the bride of bad sketch

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The return of the bride of bad sketch

Okay! After having a wide-variety of things pointed out to me, and spending an hour last night with my tired-but-mostly-biddable sweetheart, I've some different options for how to have the guy sit.

notice: because of changes in the guy, lady's torso/arm is no longer quite right. I'll fix that *after* I have him down, since he's being way more problematic. Ditto for his left arm. I did work on her foot/leg and move the arm she's leaning on backwards (after E and I both tried it as it was and pronounced it awkward).

Also, the unfortunate tighty-whitey look is just an artifact of me trying to figure out exact hip angles.

Preferences? Which one looks more natural, comfortable, cute... ?

Working this out with Erik last night was a wonderfull lesson in how Different Bodies are Different.

I know, I know, you'd think I'd have figured that out already -- after all, it didn't take me that long to figure out that most people have legs of roughly the same length and ten toes -- but it's worth a reminder, especially when it comes to odd things we don't normally notice, like hip rotation. If E sits with his legs out in front of him, his toes want to turn out. Mine are happy pointing up (I tried to ask about this with regard to knees, but he was exhausted and not really understanding and started to seriously over-splain something about guys and scrotal pressure, which was, er, not what I was asking about at all).

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First, he says that the way the guy's sitting in the third image makes him look like he's about to try to get away. Like he's braced on both arms and has cocked his knee so he can shove up onto it and leave. Which I thought was interesting - none of us saw that, but a guy saw it immediately.

Misleading Default Icon aside, I'm actually a guy, and I don't really see that in there. His center of gravity looks too far back from where his hands are for a good push off

You and your misleading default icons!

(I'd honestly forgot about your current icon, and just assumed Stasia was making a wild-guess).

As usual, I'm more inclined to chalk it up to "people see things differently" than "men/women see things differently."

Heck. In the first version mom thought the guy might be unconscious, and Dad said, "No, I think he's enjoying himself." :P

It was a joke, but I did realize recently that since I added in all those Buffy Icons, I've been using way more icons with pictures of women in them than anything else.

And yeah, I generally attribute stuff like that to personal differences rather than gender differences as well. But I think we've discussed that before.

You made me interested, so I just counted. I have 5 male pics in my icons to 4 female ones (or 6 and 5, if we count Monkey and Calliope). Two of the female images are in the same icon, so there are really only 3 female icons...

That settles it. I'm bob-the-builder. :P

(and yes, you and I've discussed that before, but I like to make it abundantly clear for anyone else in or interested in the comments).

Edited 2011-10-22 01:32 (UTC)

I'm at 20 Male to 16 Female Icons (some of those have both, I filed them under whichever seemed the "protagonist" of the image), not counting those without a human in them.

But I've been using the Female ones a whole lot more lately, so the raw numbers don't really convey the whole story.

And yes, overcommunication is usually better than undercommunication. Though I have an Icon that I haven't uploaded yet of Willow saying "I'm over-helping again aren't I?" ;)

LOL -- that one seems like it'd be really handy for a lot of us nerd types. We've all been guilty of over-splaining at one point or another. :)

Hmmmm. I have 45 icons. I just counted: 11 are certainly with girls (I'm including Boo, Ariel, and my own eye - I figure it's my eye and I'm a girl, so it's a 'female' icon.) I have 3 with females in (they share space with a male), there are 2 with non-human females, 7 with non-human males, 1 male-only (I do love a good Kronk icon), 20 which are text/non-human image/text+non-human image

... which means one's missing. Hmmm.

Ah. And one that's non-human male with a non-human female.

My icons are confused!

Clearly I need more icons!

Stasia

Clearly I need more icons!

That's precisely the conclusion I came to as well!

Iconz!!!

I want to learn how to make moving icons.

Stasia

I'm pretty sure I know how, but none of the programs I have on my Computer can make animated .gifs. At some point, I need to rectify this, as there are some animated Icons I really want to make.

I think Illustrator can do it, but I don't know how.

Clearly my life is incomplete.

Stasia

Yeah, I think I remember how to do it in Photoshop, but all I have are a couple of Freeware Image Editors that came bundled with my Computer and can't do it.

Incomplete indeed.

I know how to make basic ones in photoshop. E-mail me and I can splainz for you!

I don't know how to make the video-capture type, though. :(

I will be with the Emailinz! *gleeeeee*

Stasia

*blink*

I hadn't even looked at your icon, honestly. I tend to assume that they are more 'people/things the poster likes' than an absolute gender/sex marker. (I don't have long green hair with butterflies in, no matter how much I'd like to be a Happy Plant Fairy. *grin*)

As for the position in the drawing, I was more interested in the fact that he'd seen something completely different than everyone else seemed to. I can see it either way, honestly.

Stasia

Like I said in another comment here, that was more than half a joke.

Your phrasing did imply, however, that none of the commenters so far were guys.

No worries, regardless.

Heh. *deep blush*

In this case, my misapprehension of sex was based more on the standard "LJ users are female" fallacy.

I heartily apologise.

And now I'm deep into reading the Evil Lesbians Trope you linked to. I'll have interesting reading for days, thanks!!

*grin*

Stasia

Apology unnecessary. On the Internet, no one knows who you are, man, woman, dog, cat, whatever. It's part of the attraction. ;)

And I'm very glad to hear you got something interesting out of what I've written/linked to. That's pretty much the point.

... omg, you're a catfish?!

Stasia

Not fish! NOT FISH! Just Cat :)

*snorkle*

Fish are friends, not food.

Stasia

Eowyn disagrees (http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/WestRider/Eowyn/).

And I need to go to bed now, or my giggling at that last Icon is going to wake my neighbors ;)

I don't have any icons with my kitties. *sad*

I must rectify this!

My kitties would agree with yours, but, well, Bruce-the-shark is always fun.

Sleep tight!

Stasia

ETA: My Kitties (I have LOADS more pictures, but I'm lax about uploading.)

Edited 2011-10-22 07:08 (UTC)

Such cute Kitties! I particularly like your Basement Kitty; I've always had a fondness for black cats.

Yeah, Basement Cat's a great kitty. She's, erm. Well, she's a bit dippy. (As are most cats, really.)

She fetches cough drops. She's not always great about bringing them ALL the way back and she gets annoyed when we won't crawl off the couch to pick up her pile of cough drops. Sometimes she drops them into the gap in the couch cushions, turns herself around, then dives back down the gap to "find" them.

She can often be found UNDER the rugs and she likes to have blankets on top of her.

We call her Beece mostly, except when we're calling her Beast. (Sometimes Geordie thinks we should have named her Stitch - "Get that OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!")

The tortie's name is Butterbeer, or Butterpot, or Butterball, or Oh god, MORE scratching. Her most common epithet is "No, you may NOT lie on my keyboard."

*grin*

Stasia

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