Also I may have accidentally reinvented toxic yuri as part of this discussion

I get a lot of ppl asking me how I draw do studies. This is the basics of it. I'm sorry it looks so much like pringling 😭

Changing the body shape is a good way to force my brain to remain engaged. It means that I can't just copy the reference but have to think about things like the 3d shape of a body and how a model is holding their weight.

2) One thing I've noticed about drawing from images vs drawing from life is that it's much easier when you don't have to do the work of mentally turning a 3d thing into a 2d thing. Which is great! But I've also been falling into zoning out and copying.

Two reasons for this:

1) honestly the ideal is that eventually I'm able to use any ref photo for any character - across both body shape and gender expression - and at various levels of stylized without second-guessing myself too much.

Gonna talk shop for a second here. Altering her body shape was a fun challenge, I'm trying to do that more - figuring out how fat would naturally fall and sit on the body of a thinner model, or how a larger model's pose would be altered by the absence of it.

-resulted in a 'punishment' so massive that the AI essentially became traumatized (to humanize it somewhat) by pokemon centres in general and refused to even enter them in future attempts.

Not exactly what you're describing but I recall a video where someone was trying to train an AI to play pokemon, and an initial item that they attempted to optimize for was 'adding pokemon to party'.

The result was that when the AI deposited all their pokemon into the PC, the loss of pokemon-

Also she has spent a not insignificant amount of time in hell, which is a thing that has been healthy and normal and fun for her and the fact that she kind of finds herself drawn to go back is a Good Thing, Probably.

She is very insistent upon a lot of things that are not true, such as:

- some god or another obviously wants her to do whatever it is that she has currently decided to do, conveniently.
- normal people carry around pieces of dead bodies.
- summoning demons is probably safe for her, specifically

(Wifecomix is probably not actually going to be a thing. Unless she decides it is a thing. In which case it will retroactively have been a thing all along)

In hindsight the Smooth Move would have been ‘because you’re nice to look at’. However I am not smooth.