[ART] [NSFW] Star Charts (Patreon)

There is nudity in the full art of this.

I did something a little indulgent. A friend of mine gave me a starting point too good to let sit as just an idea, so I took a little break from my current obligations to do something... well, I think is really beautiful.

I'm very happy people like me have been able to see themselves in the art I make, it's a natural consequence of expressing myself that I will show through the canvas in some way, but the bodies and people I've been drawing are... I don't know. I don't want to say "not me" but they've felt dishonest in a way that I don't want to sit with anymore. It doesn't need to be like this all the time, I'm certainly not gonna change my OCs over it, but I want to make it clearer than ever when I am painting myself or others like me. I want to make it crystal clear to the world that I don't think there's a kind of body more beautiful than the ones I'm so intimately familiar with.

The colors on this are not my favorite but I accidentally started overpainting on a bunch of layers I didn't mean to merge together. The 'projection' idea still comes across, I think. I'm really happy with how the rendering turned out.

The full version is in an attachment, to avoid flashbanging everyone's emails with a topless woman.