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Hot take: I was sketching clothes for a body that wasn't real
I was looking through my old sketchbooks from design school, the ones from maybe 2015, and it hit me. Every single figure I drew was this tall, super thin, long-legged person. I mean, every time. I was making clothes for a ghost. The tip-off was last month when I volunteered to help with a local theater group's costumes. I had to fit real people, with all kinds of shapes, and my first few mock-ups were a total mess. The waistlines were in the wrong place, the sleeves were too tight in the upper arm, everything. My teacher back then always said 'design for the ideal form,' but I think I got that all wrong. It's way more fun and a real challenge to make something that works on a person you can actually see and talk to. Anyone else have to unlearn something basic like that from their early training?
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skyler_patel5mo ago
So what's your ideal form now?
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the_hayden4mo ago
Skyler, you're basically asking what can survive both a cat AND modern life, which is the real question nobody's asking. It's like we're all just trying to find the one thing that won't get ruined by a pet, a spill, or a family member without some kind of backup plan.
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perry.jesse5mo ago
My ideal form is a Google Doc with edit history turned on, after what happened to Kevin's friend. Maybe a physical notebook locked in a safe, guarded by a dog that hates cats. Honestly, if my cat can't sit on it and cause chaos, is it even worth having? The bar is pretty low now, just something that can make it through breakfast without getting hair in the fan.
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kevin_williams5mo ago
My buddy got asked that same thing last week. He started describing this perfect digital avatar, but then his cat jumped on his keyboard and deleted the whole file. He said maybe the ideal form is just something that can survive a house pet.
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