[1st_Tsurugi]

I think I understand most of the individual things you laid out, but my math deficient mind can't quite put it all together as yet.  I guess it'll make sense later.  Thanks for trying 🙂

[1st_Tsurugi]

I'm a math midget.  I'm not entirely certain I understand exactly how your ratios work.  Is there a chance you could give it to me in other words?

[1st_Tsurugi]

Well, I might have missed it, but I don't see any intro threads or sub-forums, so I might as well introduce my self here.  I'm on DA under the name 1stSurugi, probably because every time I've registered using that name till now, I forgot that there's a T in Tsurugi. 😛  But I digress.

Anyway, the reason I draw muscular women…  I think it all started when I was very little.  No, seriously it did. I think I was about 4.  I recall once looking at my mother, who I suppose fit the ordinary standard for attractiveness at the time, and deciding right then that there was something I didn't like about her physique.  Now mind you, I was already into girls my age, and somewhat older, but grown women typically held very little interest for me.

It wasn't till many years later that I was watching a show on ESPN, obviously a FBB show, and was able to *quickly* figure out what I wanted  ;).  Then there was the sudden, though pleasurable rise to prominence of muscular women in the media during the mid-late 90's. I particularly liked how they were being portrayed in comic books and I had quite a few to reference.  Eventually, I started to get bored with the fact that my mind was coming up with things that I didn't get to see in comics and elsewhere.  So at some point, I started taking pictures I saw in comics, and redrawing them for myself.  I was soon able to produce some half decent stuff of my own.

Then, in high school, I got into the works of Burne Hogarth, and I spent the better part of my freshman year learning proper anatomy, while using Bodybuilder mags for further reference.  The result was my first real attempt at an anatomically correct muscular form.  I told myself that I might draw a man, but I always knew it was going to be a chick.  I should post that one sometime.  From that point, I was able to draw a few more, and, in my senior year, I submitted this picture in my high school art show, damning all the small-minded insults to do so.  Got a LOT of positive feedback from girls with it though.

So, to conclude, I always had a thing for athletic women, particularly muscular ones, and I was constantly fed up with the fact that I couldn't find all that I wanted, so I had to make it myself.  So there 😀 Hope that wasn't too long winded.

[1st_Tsurugi]

I would agree with Dave; the works of Burne Hogarth were practically indispensable to me when I was learning how to do this.  I also did what Pete did, using magazine pics for reference, both male and female.  So, yeah, do those. 😛

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