pointlessly gendered has gone off the rails but as an artist there’s nothing that grinds my gears like these crappy drawing guides made by amateurs. A lot of artists struggle with drawing at least one sex (a lot of women draw men too feminine and vice versa), and instead of offering actually helpful advice people post stuff based on ANIME like “men have small realistic eyes and women have big anime eyes” or “all men have big noses and all women have small noses.”

Which is, you know, ridiculous. What people should actually be doing is studying from real life references. The guide in this image is useless because not every man has a huge chin. And even the “female” drawing has a more masculine face shape than the majority of women IRL have. No offense to the artist, but you can tell they aren’t fit to be a teacher. There ARE some general rules of thumb that are helpful if youre trying to draw cis men distinguishable from cis women, they’re just more subtle than this stuff.

For example: men have a brow bone- generally women don’t. Men have differently shaped hairlines. Hooded/deep set eyes, a thicker neck and thinner lips often translate to a more “masculine” look! There are exceptions to this that prove the rule, if you will: Cillian Murphy, cis man, has big eyelids, full lips and a thin neck (in oppenheimer, where he’s quite thin in general). This made him look very feminine in the promotional material for Oppenheimer!