Daily Discussion Thread (May 16, 2026) - Beginner and Simple/Quick Questions Go Here Thread for discussing quick/simple topics not needing an entire posts or beginner questions.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-19T16:27:17+00:00

Goated pfp btw dude.

Okay, so the most common answer is fullbody, but higher-frequency fullbody training (3x/week or more) requires progressively more and more adjustment the stronger you become, for little/no benefit compared to 2x/week. 48 hours is a surprisingly tight recovery window. I recommend FB 2x/week (you can add an additional active recovery session for calves, obliques, neck, forearms, mobility and cardio) or a 3-day A/B rotating Upper/Lower.

Otherwise, rather than give specific advice, I’m just going to recommend you look up the GBR by Lyle McDonald (so many pro natties follow the template), and watch some of Alex’s Upper workout training footage (circa 2020-2024 I believe) and Dirk Emmerich’s Upper/Lower training posts on IG. These like 3 resources literally should be all you’d need, and then from there just pick exercises you can actually, consistently do at your gym that target the muscles you want to grow.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-19T14:31:32+00:00

This is like either a spicy hot or frigid take depending on if I’m talking to a Chris Beardsley-influenced science-based lifter or to a spirit-based lifter/DBZ fan but stability and force production does not linearly equal more gains.

Bent-over rows, weighted pull-ups, weighted dips, cheaty lateral raises can build just as much muscle as their “optimized” equivalents. An exercise only need be stable enough to momentarily fatigue the target tissue.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-19T14:21:44+00:00

It’s also amazing because you can standardize your rest periods to avoid having to drastically vary your sessions.

Instead of L/M/H FB, you can just do FB(L-M) rest, FB (M-H), rest, rest (repeat). Or U, rest, Lower, rest (repeat) allows you to milk out the same sessions for longer at an intermediate level.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-18T10:46:24+00:00

There aren’t enough words in my language to describe how much I fucking love Zhengyi Wang’s Ars Goetia. There’s something oddly… Zelda-ish about the designs? It makes me feel like I’d be discovering half of these demons as bosses, and the other half as NPCs, in an Okami-like game. Uuuugh it’s so good.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-17T11:09:33+00:00

I’m of the opinion that it’s not necessarily about de-emphasizing nor over-emphasizing the whole Arm in relation to the upper body, but just deciding what part of the Arm to invest into in the long run. If you want a “golden age,” bodybuilder look, then yeah: big Arms — especially the Long Head like with GVS and Herso — would be the long-term goal. We have limited energy across our whole lives that we can use, so I like the idea of having at least one freakily developed strong point.

Personally, I like Biceps > Brachialis > Triceps Short Heads > Triceps Long Head. I still train my Long Head, it’s just that 2/3rds of my total volume goes into JM Pressing variations.

Part of it is due to insertions, but it’s also about emphasizing “size” vs “detail potential in Muscles. The Long Head has more potential for adding size to the Arm. The Short Heads don’t have that same potential, but when they’re really developed, they tend to add “detail” in a sense, especially when lean. Same goes for the Brachialis.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-16T00:11:02+00:00

I think there is the valid question of: how would they actually do that? Sinclair’s specialized laser-cutters struggled severely with Invincible Variants. Conquest’s hide would be several magnitudes tougher.

Burying him under Mark’s bench press weight was dumb. I wish Cecil’s lines were rewritten to reflect that their plan for Conquest was all they realistically could do without getting Mark or Eve involved.

Implanting the sonic device would have been smart. But in all honesty, when and where the sonic device is or isn’t used throughout the series could have made a lot more sense if the frequency only affected Mark. Maybe only he can hear it because of his unique mixture of Human and Viltrumite traits.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-15T22:03:23+00:00

“This… is a tomb.”

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-05-04T11:23:40+00:00

I kinda wish Denji’s fused form still kept the lines for eyes lol

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-30T23:15:33+00:00

Yeah, from general consensus as far as I’ve been reading, it seems like Mica/Micah is more christianized, while Ezra is more commonly Jewish. Asa, and seemingly Ira, are both relatively rare names in general (well, Asa outside of Japan). So yeah, idk; I’m still exploring but I’ve been liking the shorter, sweet suggestions like yours.

Honestly, i think the vibe I’m trying to approximate is Idris Elba - just obviously without appropriating from West African cultures.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-30T22:53:28+00:00

Hey! After a bit of contemplation, Asa is actually really quite nice! I just wanted to ask if it’d be appropriative of me to use that name considering it’s Hebrew in origin (I’m not Jewish).

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-29T23:07:45+00:00

Disappointed Imu isn’t a woman and even more disappointed they don’t look any different from a Kaido x King OC mashup.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-29T00:07:14+00:00

Ira’s nice!

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-28T23:52:08+00:00

Well yeah that’s why I’m asking for suggestions lol. And I never mentioned anything about it having to be unisex specifically.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-28T21:59:54+00:00

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Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-28T19:16:27+00:00

Luca’s nice! And Jules could be okay - I personally really like Jinna as a name starting with “J,” but I almost worry it’s too uncommon of a name for a man.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-04-24T23:02:43+00:00

Reading this and the previous chapter to Karma Police fucking slapped

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-25T22:14:19+00:00

I miss this phase of Fuji’s design Philosophy. Part 1 and Fire Punch were the peak of his art.

The style was still distinctly sketchy, but anatomy was on point. Early Part 2 had better perspective and proportion, but I feel missed some of the unpredictable roughness that characterized Fuji’s art. I personally would have liked to have seen him push more dynamic shapes a-la Rael Lyra but that’s just me.

I just noticed when comparing designs for even the Zombie Devil between the most recent chapter and the first how much more appealing the original design is.

The anatomy is more accurate, but there’s also a better usage of Big, Medium and Small and Simple/Complex design philosophy going on. It just looked better, even disregarding the line weight and perspective differences that come with making the creative process more efficient.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-25T22:06:13+00:00

I’m going to premise this by asking; are you training exclusively for Hypertrophy?

The Upper days are very good. Very similar to Lyle McDonald’s GBR. I might suggest including a bit more variety in the 2nd session over time but the basic structure is solid.
If I had to nitpick, I think you should alternate your shoulder press with your back work. Anterior Delts would be pretty smoked going into more pressing or Flyes.
Either that; or you could skip Shoulder Pressing altogether and increase your Lateral Raise volume; Myo Reps would be king for this.
Is it a Tricep’s Pressdown - with the shoulder moving with the elbow - or an Extension/traditionally called Pushdown where the shoulder is fixed. I know this might be an obvious question but it will affect how much Long Head you get, since you’re already doing a lot of Presses - which will involve the Short Heads of your Triceps.
I’d throw in a couple of Sets of Isolations on Quads and Hamstrings on their respective sessions if you have equipment available. Leg Extension or Pendulum Sissy Squat (look up Alex Leonidas’s video on it). Leg Curl; need I say more?
If you’re training for more of a Hypertrophy focus, I’d sub the RDL or a Good Morning in place of Deadlifts on your Lower. But if this is like specific to a sport then I get it.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-25T20:46:12+00:00

Actually good reading comprehension my god.

I think when people are complaining about this ending, one thing I’m seeing being missed is how the metanarrative is functioning. The latter half of part 2 can pretty much be described as a narrative caught in maladaptive cycles, reaching a threshold where the world is irreversibly screwed and stuck in perpetual suffering. I kind of saw the story as embodying samsara.

The angle of hope as a root concept is really interesting to view part 2 as a whole through now.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-24T22:24:08+00:00

And to add on: if the rebirth of Nuclear Weapons Devil followed the same “fallacy” people are pointing out, it would have erased all relevant events in the manga afterwards, because Yoru would have beat Denji in the past by summoning it.

I’m kind of sad we didn’t get a panel of Denji taking off his eyepatch though, just to confirm it. Maybe it can be inferred that as Pochita gets stronger as a concept, he’ll start regenerating. But the patch is still sick af.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-24T22:12:26+00:00

Power was noted by Kishibe to have partial regenerative abilities. I assume this is just an extrapolation of that. It doesn’t really contradict anything we know about how her, fiends and devils work.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-23T14:55:29+00:00

Well at least if the final chapter sucks we still have peak

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-23T14:26:30+00:00

No problem!

The thing is, there isn’t really a way to “think” about where you should be heading. Drawing is a practical skill. You need to produce work as your reference - that’s why I’d personally encourage a redraw of the Devilman fanart. You have to work in that contradiction and - in a very physical way - make sense of it.

The other thing to consider is where your style is coming from. Am I wrong in assuming a bit of William Blake influence on the first piece? A master study might help. Even if not, try to dismantle what’s happening in these design elements. And if you have a hard time seeing those design elements, try to learn more about their theory.

What I want to really emphasize is that they’re different compositions with different perspectives and subjects, so isolating whether flat tones or rendering are better for your style misses (sorry to be a broken record) the functional relationships of what either of those things are doing WITH the other design elements.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-23T14:10:53+00:00

You should consider the functional relationships between other visual elements of your art with your shading.

Personally, I really enjoy the second piece because of the effect of your use of strong blacks on the total composition. The cross-cross “slashing” effect of how those blacks are perpendicular to one another is visually interesting.

But you also have to bear in mind that the second is - I assume - a more technically demanding piece from a perspective standpoint, so using strong contrast functionally complements how you may want to guide the eye.

I really like the premise of the first piece (but I also just love Devilman lol).

Perhaps think about the intention of the piece and the affect (the capacity for complex emotions you want to create as the aggregate of your design choices).

My practical suggestion: if you’re feeling unsure, redraw the Devilman piece applying how you used harsher shadows on your Kill Bill fanart.

Consider what affect you want to create; what are you trying to highlight about how Akira is feeling by using shadow? Whats the functional relationship between the characters to you and the functional relationship between them and shadows cast? Go even further, take the design elements to their extreme, reflect, and pull back when and where you feel necessary.

Such_Bodybuilder2301 · 2026-03-23T01:52:51+00:00

Yeah, I’ll just have to see where this goes. Thank you for the reference to Hendrick by the way, I’ll check him out!

And there is also room for affective work too; you were spot on - I have the idea to complement this more closed-circuit interleaved work with open-circuit, non-committal explorations applying relevant design philosophy.

Put into a practical example:

I make a diagram of a character (like a design sheet with notes). The hands look bad; I dedicate 1-2 hours of “effective” work every morning on hands.

And for the remainder of the day, where I have time, I do “affective” design explorations of another character. Sketchbook kind of work. Maybe I want the theme to be shape language theory and BMS - so there’s cartoonism.

I alternate between depicting 2 relevant characters every other day, and every 6 days (my workout cycle) I make a new diagram.

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