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Very glad you enjoyed the idea 😁

Hehe, thank you so much!! :D

Thanks!! I had no idea it was that complicated 😂

I don't know, I'm working by intuition, never felt like trying to analyze it so much 😅

Glad you liked!!
This angle looks best on handmade drawings and real contortion photos, where you can appreciate the artist's style or the person's skills... In 3D it looks kind of boring, like a filler picture, "just another contortionist picture", so need to add a lot of things and ideas to spice it up and make it interesting 😄

Yeah, because the twist is so extreme and unusual that it's impossible to find a camera angle where it looks readable, in the end I decided to keep the angle where it looks kinda funny instead, but the pose is just impossible to understand unless you know what he's doing :P
I'm very glad it was still fun to look at :D

Very glad you liked him 😁 I also can't wait to see in what other ways he can bend it and his "rehearsals" in the yoga class XD

I guess contortionists are often told they look like two people on top of each other, now a guy made of two separate halves is told he looks like a contortionist XD
Thanks, I used a brush there just for fun :3

When uploading pictures there's that narrow psychological point where it can easily get unpleasant and even piss you off... I think a good approach is to work on several pictures, so when uploading something, you're already working on something else, so you don't have to suffer because you're too distracted by a new project :D People's reactions are fun to read but it's the art process that's the most pleasant, as well as world building, characters, etc...

Daz Studio is not bad for making poses but like every other software or tool, it takes 100 pictures before you become fluent with it... The main problem almost every artist has is they don't want to practice the basics, they way to install something and immediately make a great artwork, and if they can't, they give up and stop trying... Just an example, if you play the same video game every day, at first you suck but at some point you realize it got too easy... It's the same point you have to reach in a new software, when it finally feels too easy that means you can finally use it as a tool for making the art you want :D I dunno, I'm just trying to spawn some philosophies on the fly... My point is, you just practice something every day until it gets too easy and that's when you can call it a proper tool.

But the above is hardly about your art by the way, you have a style that is great the way it is! IF you just made A LOT more pictures in the exact same style I think I'd be the happiest person to see them all! I'm always looking forward to new drawings! And I'm definitely not one of those people who talk people into trying "new things" and I'm wholeheartedly against the idea that you have to "leave your comfort zone". I think it's very important to build a comfort zone because then you can start creating really good art...

And thanks for your time replying to my comments, I'm always happy to talk about this kind of stuff :3

I'm very glad you enjoyed it!! I actually much prefer your works because they're drawn, cute, and you have great and sexy characters! I like drawn art in general because it has that factor of "something new and refreshing" every time, while 3D looks kinda like the same old thing just going on and on... I'm always checking your gallery whenever I get hit by that specific urge to drool at some hot boys in extreme poses :D

I wish I could get back to my old drawn art but that workflow was just too stressful for me and also my hand was beginning to hurt when holding a pen, probably from drawing too much every day... So I'm happy I found 3D at that point, it was like a "lifebuoy" for my drowning art XD Of course in 3D I can't brag about doing any shading by myself, but I'm trying to invest into other things like rescuing the boys from the uncanny valley... XD

Yeah it's great to think of bendy ways to do casual things and guess there's no end to the possible ideas! Can make for a great distraction if the stretch is outside the comfort zone, so can do some casual activities to be able to sustain it for way longer and sometimes even forget how much you're twisted when distracted by some book, lectures or stuff on phone or even music. Of course nothing beats video gaming while tugged into a pretzel or any other fun challenge...XD

Very glad that you enjoyed the picture!! Yasha sure can't afford losing to his rival-boyfriend, no way he'd let that brat start bragging about getting ahead of Yasha in something because then he'll never shut up about it! :D

Guess we have similar thoughts lately, you of the extra pair of arms and I'm of the lacking waist 😆 I'm super happy that you enjoyed it and looking forward to seeing your idea if you're still up for drawing it! 😊

So glad you like him! :D He is an elf which means he's got some regeneration powers, as well as inborn hypermobility in the joints and spine, but similar to how some elves are raised in barbarian tribes, he was raised in a ninja clan, so his muscles were also polished to perfection, which is not the norm for elves :3

I'm so happy that you enjoyed it! If only contortionists were so highly valued by kings and princes, I bet the world would be very different... Imagine paintings and sculptures of bendy youths as you walk through the palace of some ruler, or legends of simple peasant boys who gained a high status thanks to their unusual hobbies 😁

It's amazing when bodybuilders and athletes get into backbending, contortion always adds so much on top of already amazing bodies! I always loved to work on muscled characters but somehow I always need a kick to do that, and in this case our conversation gave it to me, so I'm glad you also enjoyed the result of it! Always eager to see new pictures of your own guys! :D

I'm very glad you like my works, but for the old style it's best to look at the hundreds of old pictures, I guess... It's a bit too demanding after all and my health is far from perfect after these 20 years of making so much art, often for hours a day, on top of an already stressful job, so I better try to find ways to make art that don't ruin me further... 3D is a good compromise that's easier on my system but I can still add some painting to add more life and soul to the picture.

Hmm, going beyond the healthy range of motion sounds kind of creepy but I guess not creepier than my own description XD I just thought she could kind of dislocate something harmlessly to try some whole new ways to contort but didn't mean it to sound like self-abuse or anything...

I'm so happy you like this fella! Indeed how fortunate would be to meet the jelly demon after already being an advanced contortionist! Yan Feng Gu is just the right guy for the career of a flexorcist, not only doing his job so carefully but also being incredibly lucky with opportunities or at least knowing the most 'lucky' places to go :P

Haha! But I'd love to see a similar pose in your athletic style! :D (also it's already been done in Helmut's Daily Bend July 2021, so nothing new here)

Really?! I'm so glad, because I thought it was almost a failure because the lighting didn't turn out as good as the other pictures... But I enjoyed the hair and this fully nude pose too much to trash it... So glad the picture is good in your opinion! 😁

Well, the situation is that I basically start the software and do whatever random stuff until I can find a good direction that feels interesting and leads to a good picture... So to put it bluntly, all my pictures are "random"... But in stories I can use the fact that one picture was finished earlier than the other, in this case Helmut "did it first" and Leslie here seems less extreme than what Helmut did, not because he can't get the feet down but because the bare feet on top of his head look so cute XDD But in the story could say that he's still training to get them all the way down, haha... because why knot.

Thank you so much! 😊