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I mean, most of east asia has shown me products aimed towards girls can more or less be successful in their own way, So why is it rare to find female artist who aren't bending over backwards and only doing cheesecake(unless their gay, otherwise, good on them)? I want a less weird demographic following my art these days…

Heads up, although I'm a lot better than I was, my head's still a bit muggy from Covid, so I apologise if this comes across a bit blunt or cold. I'll try and keep it light like I normally do, but it feels like there's an air bubble in my head compressing all of my thoughts.

So, I've spent a few minutes giving it some thought and it's just occurred to me that there are no cute male poses, and what might be provocative just looks really tame or funny.

Unlike with girls that had the I-Pose or Jack-O-Crouch, what do Male characters have specific to them?

Apart from helicoptering of course, but you can't really make art out of that.

The only thing I can think of would be them flexing their muscles; but being a beefcake isn't relegated to males only.

And nowadays, such a thing is normally used for comedy, with the most popular recent one being the Broly pose.

Because of that, it's really hard to get something to spread.

The only way to be successful would be to combine it with a story, humour or something else besides just being a cute boy; but this also applies to people who solely draw cute girls due to an over-saturation of that particular market.

Another issue might be the androgynous, almost uniform nature of cute boys.

Girls are a lot more customisable in body shape than boys are, they can be curvy, chubby, flat, muscly, stout, willowy, etc.

The male shape is lot less flexible, as apart from crotch bulge, you can't really change that much apart from the very basics.

They're even limited by hairstyles, as giving them long hair or particularly eccentric hair can make them androgynous depending on how effeminate the rest of their features are.

This makes it very hard for them to stand out as individual, distinct characters as it becomes much easier to mistake one character from another at a glance.

All of this means you need to put in much more hard work just to get the same amount of recognition when compared to someone who draws cute girls instead.

If you're looking for ideas for yourself, one avenue that might be an interesting thing to pursue might be Monsterboys.

We all know how popular Monstergirls are, and from the few images I've posted in the past, there does seem to be a good amount of interest in Monsterboys as well; as they are much, much rarer.

You could take a shot and draw up a few Monsterboys, maybe ones based on more obscure creatures to make them stand out more, and then see how that goes.

My particular niche is parody and absurdist comedy, so I'm not really sure what other artistic styles are currently popular that you could try tapping into.

Probably not Cubism.

Since you're one of the best artists we have on this site, I think once you've managed to tap into the right seam, you'll take off like a rocket.

The best thing to do would be to draw a few experimental pieces, upload them to various places on the internet and see how they do.

If nothing else, it'll get a wider group of people taking a look at your older work and that might help out a bit with the demographics that follow your art.

If you draw a lot of Astolfo maybe, he is the one with most meme cred

I've seen Twitter artists like Sky Guy pop off in popularity for making cute boy art, mostly NSFW. But like SK said you're gonna have to find a very niche aspect about boy art that stands out.

or start with astolfo fan art and then slowly descend into OC territory.

To answer the question: Yes, yes you can.

Now to be fair, "cute boy" is quite subjective. Because what is "cute"? Does it take an effeminate trap or a twink to be cute? I'm sure some would argue that even bara characters can be cute.

So for variety's sake, some examples that you can check out:
(ALL OF WHICH ARE OBVIOUSLY NSFW)

Sky Guy @SkyGuyArt
Dross @DrossDrawings
BDOne @BDOneArt
Hoodie @HoodieDraws
RA4S @Ra4sOfficial
Zipsha @Finneca
Doppel @bonnypir4
Lavey @lavey_otokonoko
CheeseCrumbles @ChCrumbles
Mikkoukun @mikkoukun
Onta @ontahb (furry)
Redrusker @ruskertweets (furry)
Chunie @chuniewhat (furry)

Yes, I follow all of them and more.

I have an Idea for making a cute boy character that isn't feminine at all.

Let's call him… Peter. Peter looks like a regular guy. Peter is cute because of his personality and expressions through comics/art pieces. He's lovable but naive in situations that end up falling flat. He brings flowers to his first date but makes them really allergic. He didn't think they'd get sick because he thought the flowers were colorful.

I could give monsterboys a go

Seems like kind of a niche but I'm sure it's possible.

yes
not sure how successful (or what that truly entails), but if you want to, then you likely can

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