Do you prefer to draw the gender that you like/are attracted to?
poll
My friend and I couldn't come to a conclusion on this. She was certain it was based on attraction. However, she recently read a post here where everyone agreed that most people prefer to draw their own gender because that's what they're familiar with and was was surprised to see such a consensus. My friend and I prefer to draw men despite being women attracted to multiple genders including our own (although I do find myself crushing more on men).
Let me know how it is for you (or take the poll if you're a lurker). And let me know if you'd like to be notified when we post the results!
edit: i just want to note that by attraction i dont strictly mean sexual/romantic. it can be aesthetically too.
edit 2: i'd also like to note that the purpose of this is not to make assumptions, everyone has their own reasons as to why they may choose to draw a gender. we'd just like to see what it might be like for the majority of people!
edit 3: i am back with poll results, we had a total of 161 participants from here, the artistlounge subreddit, gaiaonline, deviantart, and artfol. You can see the tables with the results and nifty charts here!
Highlights:
Straight women: 50% prefer to draw men, 43% prefer to draw women
Gay women: 77% prefer to draw women, 15% prefer to draw men
*Bi women: 69% prefer to draw women, 28% prefer to draw men
*Other women: 50% prefer to draw women
Straight men: 79% prefer to draw women, 16% prefer to draw men
Gay men: 92% prefer to draw men, 8% prefer to draw women
*Bi men: 69% prefer to draw men, 13% prefer to women
*Other men are split equally between men and women
There was hardly enough data for the non-binary category so I'll include the biggest here
*Bi non-binary people, 40.00% prefer to draw men, 33.33% prefer to draw women
*Bi refers to anyone with two or more attractions and Other mostly consists of people who said they had no preference. There weren't enough responses/similar answers, to divide any Other category into anything meaningful.
Also! many people stated that they draw their preferred gender for the opportunity to create better versions of themselves, because they preferred characters of that gender in media, because of an inability to draw another gender, because their preferred gender possesses certain trait seen as limited to that gender (ex. long hair), or because they related more to their own gender (these respondents were mostly writers). Several straight men, in particular, stated that they drew men as children but preferred drawing women when they grew older. There were more common ones, but I don’t recall them at the moment.