random whining

[ratcreature]

Next time I'm trying to do a slashy sketch and figure out how to make the heads and limbs fit together, it's going to involve Plastic Man. Seriously, this would be so much easier, if I could just stretch out one person as needed -- longer, shorter, thinner, whatever -- to fit the other body. And you could avoid all these annoying issues of foreshortening and perspective and bulk hiding parts of each other. It would be easier to make the pose look dynamic too.

Too bad I'm not into Plastic Man. Sigh.

Also, I fail at finding suitable reference pictures, no matter that everybody says the internet is made of porn. Of course the problem might be that I'm not looking for a sex position, but for a picture of one person restraining another against a wall with the arms held overhead by one hand, the other caressing the head, while there is ear licking going on. And from a certain viewpoint too. My google-fu it failed me. These are the moments I'm cursing descriptive writers I'm trying to illustrate.

I did find a rather cute picture of two ear-licking polar bears (unfortunately also pictures of dogs with some sort of icky skin disease -- ew). Meanwhile I tried to figure out the logistics via sligtly fleshed out stick figures, but not with great success.

I think I'm going to give up on trying to make stick figures fondle each other, and rather play another round of Samegame Hexagonized...

Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Could you maybe get friends to pose for you while you photograph them, or sketch or photograph yourself in the mirror? I'm totally shameless about pouncing on unsuspecting people I know and asking them things like, "Hey, could you clasp your hands together like this? No, the left hand on top. Okay! Hold still!"

[ratcreature]

I don't think so. I'm not the most social or outgoing person to begin with, and don't see myself asking two people to lick each others ear while I take a photo. Also, they'd want to know what I need this for and see the picture they posed for.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yeah, I can see the problem! :D I suppose it helps that most of my projects are relatively easy to explain to, er, "mundanes", as it were. Plus, my friends that have known me since college are used to being called upon for impromptu model duty.

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Plastic Man/Mr. Fantastic=OTP?

[ratcreature]

Heh. It would solve many problems for sure, and make my life much easier.

[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

JUST SO YOU KNOW, I'd be totally thrilled if you drew me Plastic Man. :D

(Also! Check out this cover (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=44923&zoom=4).)

[ratcreature]

Hee. It's actually rather odd that you don't see more slash pictures with him (or maybe I've just missed them, as I'm not really into the character). I mean, I don't draw explicit porn, but with him you could make all those unrealistic porn positions work for which normal people just aren't flexible enough, without the suspension of disbelief suffering, like he could give himself a blowjob when masturbating for starters...