Luckily Joyce after the first exposure to REAL PENIS IN REAL LIFE ™ it sort of just. Fades into the background. It’s just another piece of flesh of the mass of flesh you are desperately trying to draw to your drawing instructor’s satisfaction….
I just search for “trademark symbol” and copy it off a web page somewhere.
Because lazy.
StClair
Same.
Azhrei Vep
Yuuuuuuup.
Taffy
I’ve never bothered to look up what an “alt code” is or how to use one, because Character Map and a quick web search do all the work for me. And also on mobile, I just have to tap on the little icon for the symbols and they show up, something I can’t do on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Jamie
Or you can google it. Most unicode symbols will show up if you search the right thing.
You’re normally under a bit of a time constraint too, so freaking out starts to eat into the 45 min to a hour a model is willing to sit still naked in a room that might not be a comfortable temperature.
This pretty much covers the life art drawings of a certain comic creator Im a Patreon member of. Danielle Corsetto draws them of course but theyre just there in her 5/2/1 minute sketches because they are. Leaving them out would be as silly as not drawing toes.
Funny thing is somehow I never got a male* model when I took figure drawing, but then it was an early class, an audit, and for the most part I couldn’t be arsed to get up for it
*penis-having, but we didn’t have those identities where I lived back in the day
That’s a hoot! Makes me wish I was female… I’d definitely pull it out (pun intended) at karaoke some night after the audience had had enough drinks in them.
She walks up to him as he lays there, her eyes averted. Slowly, her gaze meets his… and she quickly unfolds the paper bag, places it over his head, and returns to her seat to draw. Nobody pauses for more than a moment. Nobody complains. Nobody comments. Class continues.
Joe lounges, bag still hiding his face, as everybody leaves the room. Only once the teacher clicks the lights off does his head droop a little as he lets out a little “okay, fair enough.”
Kinda reminds me of the life drawing class in Giant Days that had a model in a bird (or maybe plauge doctor) mask. It was teased that Esther thought he looked familiar, but it was never resolved!
Excuse me, but when or where did Joyce see one (in canon)? Once she was told what Sarah’s vibrator was (a faux phallus) she let go of that thing so quickly it was still levitating in mid-air in the final panel.
In the hypothetical class where she will be hypothetically drawing one. She’s freaking out about drawing one but not freaking out about the fact that she’ll have to look at one to draw it.
Council
I believe the implication is that her aversion to sex is/has become more performative over any genuine discomfort. She isn’t bothered by seeing a penis, but is afraid of being judged as a result of the her tacit approval of being shown that penis. As expressed by her own depiction of said penis.
She’s afraid it will look like she’s fixated on it if her drawing is intricately detailed while everyone else’s is a sketch.
Conversely, if everyone else is drawing to some level of detail and hers is just an outline, she’ll look like she’s bashful about it to an excessive degree.
Shame she missed Mary’s hell house, she could have gotten a look at one without the stressful setting of a classroom.
It would be the stressful setting of hypocrites telling you that you’re going to hell, but that’s Joyce’s whole childhood, so it would mostly be background noise.
As a reminder, the only people that we’ve seen know about the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit are Amber, Dina and Becky. Technically Sierra too but she laughed it off.
So either Dorothy was told offscreen, she’s a smart cookie, or she’s just riffing and unknowingly playing into the joke
The text is (to paraphrase) “You asked for Amazi-Girl and I thought someone had drew a bunch of ding dongs again”. From reading it, my assumption is that Dorothy still doesn’t know at that point, and was assuming Joyce wanted Amazi-Girl to identify the artist.
I’m still confused as to how Joyce went from lying in bed with debilitating PMS and arguing over her birth control to walking around with Dorothy chatting about penises.
As a woman who’s experienced debilitating cramps, I’ve definitely had to grin and bear it to get through the day, which could be what Willis is intending to get at here? But it just feels like a confusing tonal shift and it’s taking me out of the story.
Seems latter in the day she could have gotten the pills or she is still in pain or she could have taken some nsaids or the comic explaining it could be a patreon exclusive.
Birth control wouldn’t be likely to have such an immediate effect.
UrsulaDavina
Nsaid’s might I mean they are designed for temporary relief it might not solve all of Joyce’s pain issue sbut it might provide enough relief for her to get out of bed.
142 thoughts on “Penises”
Ana Chronistic
gonna have to study lots of wangs to learn how to make them distinctively different to throw everyone off the scent
/birth of a porn lady
Bicycle Bill
So THAT’S how Willis got his start as a porn lord!!
Cholma
You just *know* he has a secret sketchbook hidden away somewhere FILLED with his “ding-dong” sketches! (and a 2nd one for boobs)
StClair
nope.
they’re all full of butts.
ALL of them.
davidbreslin101
As Dave Bowman said when he entered the Stargate: “My God, it’s full of arse!”
Rose by Any Other Name
After yesterday, I’m curious if there’s a sketch book full of ‘front butts’.
TrueVCU
BUTTS FOR THE BUTT GOD
Decidedly Orthogonal
Joyce *is* being a bit of a ding-dong.
Sol
Luckily Joyce after the first exposure to REAL PENIS IN REAL LIFE ™ it sort of just. Fades into the background. It’s just another piece of flesh of the mass of flesh you are desperately trying to draw to your drawing instructor’s satisfaction….
Sol
Oh neat it automatically superscripted the tm in parenthesis.
Bicycle Bill
If you’re using Windows, like I am, you can always pull up the Character Map and, under Times New Roman font, you’ll find all sorts of wierd and unusual characters such as foreign currency symbols, alphabets in Cyrillic, Greek, and other foreign languages, and all sorts of various symbols including things like ©, ®, §, ♫, ♀, ♀, and the four card suits, as well as subscript and superscript numbers (useful for chemical formulas or mathematic equations). Just select, copy, and then paste into your message, just like I did in this one.
Bicycle Bill
That was supposed to one female symbol (♀), one male symbol (♂).
Oh well…
Cholma
Heh. Character Map is your friend! I use ™ ° ® © often enough that I wrote down the ALT codes and stuck them to my monitor, so when I make a post about having a Bad Idea™, I don’t have to look it up or wrack my brain trying to remember “0153”. 😀
Needfuldoer
I just search for “trademark symbol” and copy it off a web page somewhere.
Because lazy.
StClair
Same.
Azhrei Vep
Yuuuuuuup.
Taffy
I’ve never bothered to look up what an “alt code” is or how to use one, because Character Map and a quick web search do all the work for me. And also on mobile, I just have to tap on the little icon for the symbols and they show up, something I can’t do on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Jamie
Or you can google it. Most unicode symbols will show up if you search the right thing.
Sirksome
You’re normally under a bit of a time constraint too, so freaking out starts to eat into the 45 min to a hour a model is willing to sit still naked in a room that might not be a comfortable temperature.
Sol
Stares into the middle distance as she remembers the 5/2/1 minute sketch exercises that she never could get a hang of.
Opus the Poet
Remembering all the times I posed nude back in the 00s and 10s and how cold they kept the studios.
ktbear
This pretty much covers the life art drawings of a certain comic creator Im a Patreon member of. Danielle Corsetto draws them of course but theyre just there in her 5/2/1 minute sketches because they are. Leaving them out would be as silly as not drawing toes.
Ana Chronistic
Funny thing is somehow I never got a male* model when I took figure drawing, but then it was an early class, an audit, and for the most part I couldn’t be arsed to get up for it
*penis-having, but we didn’t have those identities where I lived back in the day
Ragingagnostic
A pretty piece of flesh…
Cerusee
I dunno, sometimes it just prompts you to sing an absolute banger of a song:
https://youtu.be/RUYhukcMgEo
Bicycle Bill
That’s a hoot! Makes me wish I was female… I’d definitely pull it out (pun intended) at karaoke some night after the audience had had enough drinks in them.
AntJ
…wait, did Dorothy never learn that Joyce was the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit?
Kitschensyngk
She might have.
Kitschensyngk
Sorry, the link didn’t post:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/rightfully/
Thag Simmons
She wasn’t present when Joyce confessed to Becky
Needfuldoer
Or when she confessed to Sierra.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/cleaning/
Sirksome
Meh, you get over the nudity thing real quick. At least I did. From experience the drawing of genitalia is usually optional.
Schpoonman
Heh, like Joyce sits in one day and has some of the best anatomy out of any of the students and Malaya starts side-eyeing her.
Needfuldoer
Malaya would probably respect her chutzpah. Randomly sitting in on a class and acing the material isn’t fakey.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/careful/
Kyrik Michalowski
Inb4 Joe is the model and Joyce has to deal with that can of worms. I really hope that comes to pass, it will be hilarious and awkward.
Bladeglory
She walks up to him as he lays there, her eyes averted. Slowly, her gaze meets his… and she quickly unfolds the paper bag, places it over his head, and returns to her seat to draw. Nobody pauses for more than a moment. Nobody complains. Nobody comments. Class continues.
Joe lounges, bag still hiding his face, as everybody leaves the room. Only once the teacher clicks the lights off does his head droop a little as he lets out a little “okay, fair enough.”
Carla's #2 Fan
Kinda reminds me of the life drawing class in Giant Days that had a model in a bird (or maybe plauge doctor) mask. It was teased that Esther thought he looked familiar, but it was never resolved!
NickG
The model’s tattoo was a definite hint.
Pinkie
How is Joyce freaked out about drawing a penis but not about seeing one?
Bicycle Bill
Excuse me, but when or where did Joyce see one (in canon)? Once she was told what Sarah’s vibrator was (a faux phallus) she let go of that thing so quickly it was still levitating in mid-air in the final panel.
Proxiehunter
In the hypothetical class where she will be hypothetically drawing one. She’s freaking out about drawing one but not freaking out about the fact that she’ll have to look at one to draw it.
Council
I believe the implication is that her aversion to sex is/has become more performative over any genuine discomfort. She isn’t bothered by seeing a penis, but is afraid of being judged as a result of the her tacit approval of being shown that penis. As expressed by her own depiction of said penis.
Penis penis penis.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Do womens’ bathrooms have lots of genitalia-based graffiti? Mens’ certainly do.
Opus the Poet
After spending a week cleaning them, yes they do, and pretty much identical to men’s restrooms.
Needfuldoer
She’s afraid it will look like she’s fixated on it if her drawing is intricately detailed while everyone else’s is a sketch.
Conversely, if everyone else is drawing to some level of detail and hers is just an outline, she’ll look like she’s bashful about it to an excessive degree.
Wayne Farmer
A penis is mightier than a sword. Mighty scary.
Doctor_Who
Shame she missed Mary’s hell house, she could have gotten a look at one without the stressful setting of a classroom.
It would be the stressful setting of hypocrites telling you that you’re going to hell, but that’s Joyce’s whole childhood, so it would mostly be background noise.
Kyrik Michalowski
I think Joyce would have abandoned the idea of mary’s hell house. Not exactly anything fun in there either.
Needfuldoer
What are you talking about? Dina had a lot of fun at the end!
The Wellerman
Yeah! ??
thejeff
So did Ruth and Billie.
Nono
As a reminder, the only people that we’ve seen know about the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit are Amber, Dina and Becky. Technically Sierra too but she laughed it off.
So either Dorothy was told offscreen, she’s a smart cookie, or she’s just riffing and unknowingly playing into the joke
Nono
Actually I just remembered that Dorothy made a mention of it when Joyce was at the hospital after punching Ross. So I think she knows.
Segnosaur
I found the comic you were referring to here:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/rightfully/
The text is (to paraphrase) “You asked for Amazi-Girl and I thought someone had drew a bunch of ding dongs again”. From reading it, my assumption is that Dorothy still doesn’t know at that point, and was assuming Joyce wanted Amazi-Girl to identify the artist.
Stephen Bierce
Have we already played The Sweet’s “Little Willy” here? I forget.
Bicycle Bill
You could play “Big Ten Inch” by Aerosmith.
Proxiehunter
Or “My ding-a-ling” by Chuck Berry.
Azhrei Vep
Nah, none of that. Let’s put
on the hacked muzak instead.
Azhrei Vep
… Eh, close enough.
Azhrei Vep
At least the link goes where it’s supposed to.
DailyBrad
I love how even Dorothy isn’t above finding the humor in this scenario.
The Wellerman
And so we are to witness the birth of Porn Lord Joyce.
I’ll go grab the popcorn and drinks!!! Yay!
Aubrey
I’m still confused as to how Joyce went from lying in bed with debilitating PMS and arguing over her birth control to walking around with Dorothy chatting about penises.
As a woman who’s experienced debilitating cramps, I’ve definitely had to grin and bear it to get through the day, which could be what Willis is intending to get at here? But it just feels like a confusing tonal shift and it’s taking me out of the story.
Nono
It’s definitely a little jarring. I don’t know if it’s ‘okay, I’ll explain it later’ or ‘I’m tired of this storyline, moving on’.
The Wellerman
Welp, for me confidence boosts from seeing my work published also tended to override pain of cramping and inflammation if only for a little while. ?
Also cramping / pain like this in general is often an on-off thing, just so you know.
Needfuldoer
That worked for her ‘yesterday’.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/04-dont-stop-billie-ving/pain/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/04-dont-stop-billie-ving/toog/
The Wellerman
Yeah that. Now if only I could crank out games even a fifth of that rate…
UrsulaDavina
Seems latter in the day she could have gotten the pills or she is still in pain or she could have taken some nsaids or the comic explaining it could be a patreon exclusive.
thejeff
Birth control wouldn’t be likely to have such an immediate effect.
UrsulaDavina
Nsaid’s might I mean they are designed for temporary relief it might not solve all of Joyce’s pain issue sbut it might provide enough relief for her to get out of bed.