#this is as ever a work in progress

[badassindistress]

do you perhaps have a pattern for that gentleman's corset? asking for a friend

Hi!

Unfortunately, I do not have a pattern to give you, but I do have a way for you/your friend to draft your own.

(If you really do just want a ready pattern, I'm pretty sure my #binding stays or #flattening stays tags include some etsy shops that have binders with corsetry methods)

I'm presuming you are here because that 5 year old post of the binder with elizabethan stays method is going around again (left). I've also since made a pair of stays that flatten nicely as well (right).

The left pattern was drafted with the free Custom Corset Pattern Generator from elizabethancostume.net. You just input a little extra breathing room in the waist and the bust measurement you can comfortably squish your chest down to.

However, that was many years ago and I have since had more success using a Mariah Pattie's circular drafting technique. It has so much less measuring and math and it gave me a better fit.

Here's my post on that technique, along with her video.

And here's my post amending that to a binder instead of stays.

In short, all you need is:

a large piece of paper

a string

a pen

a measuring tape and

the measurement of your waist circumference

the measurement of your chest bound down circumference

the measurement of the vertical distance between your waist and chest.

You draw out the pattern following the video + my explanation post (this takes me about 30 minutes vs the hour or two for drafting the usual way). Then I make it longer with a cm or two at the bottom and at least 3 cm on top. One change I've made since that post was to pinch out a little dart at the arms to make it lie smoother under clothes. One day I'm going to experiment with adding straps to this design, but today is not that day.

I kept mine quite low, because I wanted a 18th century round chested look, but with straps and longer stays you could probably go flatter (depending on how much you have to flatten of course).

This is what it looks like under a waistcoat tailored according to a menswear manual:

i'll also drop here the posts of other people who've I've talked about their binders using corsetry and tailoring methods: horsehair canvas summer binder, there's another one about how convenient ribbons are for easy adjustment but i can't find it (EDIT: found it!)

Good luck and do let me know if you've advanced this research any further!

#the stays are for a femme in historical gentleman's clothes looks #both are first tries #and fine for an afternoon #but not fitted enough to me for daily wear #but that's mostly because of my back issues #the chest compression bit is fine #this is as ever a work in progress #let me know if i need to explain some other things #i've been planning for about a year to draft a new pattern and collect all the information in one post #but again #not today #hope this helps! #binding stays #flattening stays #gentleman's corset

[mewnia]

Wip ;P

Song is “Time Machine” by Autoheart!

#In Stars and Time #isat fanart #isat #isat siffrin #isat isabeau #work in progress #wip #autoheart #I’ve been chugging through this one way faster than my Tales of Arise project #I think part of it is because the characters are simpler to draw and the original art style already has so much flexibility haha #and also in stars and time has had a serious iron grip on my mind ever since I finished it #it’s such a good game #go play it #pls #mewnia's pawprints

[ghost-bxrd]

“Ghost” Selkie wip 🦭👻

#selkie au #selkie jason todd #digital art #doodle #sketch #let’s see if I ever finish this one lol #jason todd #batfamily #red hood #Selkie #wip #work in progress #illustration #drawing #art

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

#phew... this is by far the most ambitious piece i've ever posted here! 12 pages! this is why i've been so afk from other work haha! #shout out to the poor mods who sent through assignments and received no small amount of all-caps panicked screaming from me in response!! #me?! draw a gift for THE post-it-notes7!? immediately knew i had to overachieve to stand any hope of being up to the bar haha #if you feel these characters look a little different to how i usually draw them- that's totally on purpose! #i worked really hard to match post's designs and styling for them rather than my own; seeing as this was a gift! #actually think it stands out a *lot* surprisingly- given that they are still the exact same orbs. really interesting to compare to my usual #i hope some folks will notice all the details from the story in here! if you've read it and you recognised it please let me know! #genuinely hoping someone just recognises it on the first page. iconic canyon fight... what an honour to draw for this fic tbh #also thank you to the mods for handling all the wips and progress on this ridiculously sized entry from me with such grace #it's being posted on my personal blog due to length for anyone wondering. should be seamless... fingers crossed. #my art #my comics #meta knight #galacta knight #hnk secret santa #cw violence

[crabfungi]

☆ [W.I.P] ☆

what a joyous fellow im sure nothing bad happens to him

#nothing bad ever happens to the daycare attendant #grin :} #art #myart #digital art #dca #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #security breach daycare attendant #moondrop #daycare attendant #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf moon #moon security breach #moon fnaf #work in progress #work in process #wip #dca fanart #dca fandom

[gold0kapi]

I made a new lineart brush and its changed my life

#call of duty #cod #sketches #ghostsoap #soapghost #wip #work in progress #fan art #soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #i'm living vicariously through ghost #something i never thought i'd ever say #i wanna ruffle johnny's hair

[arinmoss]

i have 3 astarion pieces so far hehe :3c also the last one is available as a print here

#lmao at the first 2 still being works in progress #look man i don tlike finishing things idk i love starting new wips #tbh the last one could also use more work but i decided to quit while iwas ahead #he looks so different in each one lmao #i just love to draw how ever im feeling in the current moment <3 and sometimes that means people look not at all how they are supposed to < #bg3 #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3

[jazzberiperks]

have some wippies because WOW i havent animated in a year

#work in progress stuff for the past week #everythin is drawn here except for the obvious stock pic of the grass and clapper cuz im too lazy #maybe i should do animatic next or clock for the funnies #dont you ever like wanna draw just object show hosts #inanimate insanity #bfdi #bfb #ii #perkie paint #art #osc

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

the Klavier-Edgeworth parallels of I Don't Care How You Feel, the Truth Is the Only Thing That Matters™ are very interesting, but the Klavier-Phoenix parallels of nothing bad has ever affected me in my life idk what you're talking about that didn't mean anything I'm not talking about it I'm not thinking about it I'm not acknowledging it they may not be dead but they're dead to me and that's how I like it I'm never looking at them again because they're dead they're gone they're a ghost and this is a perfectly healthy way to live look at me I'm thriving I'm thriving I'm thriving are also very interesting, do you get what I'm saying.

#i dont think this is what people meant by have you ever thought of making a narumitsu fanchild #(<- nobody has asked me that i just thought it was funny) #addendum to the klavier post because i somehow didnt make the connection then. starting to think all the aa4 characters are several old #characters stuck in a blender and poured into a shiny new cup. #klavier gavin #phoenix wright #klavier's definitely better at the never looking at it again thing & i think that's due to his edgeworth iciness like i said originally #phoenix has too much heart and i think he's sort of in recovery from that type of behaviour (it's a work in progress) #anyway they should have faced off against each other again. dual destinies did many things poorly but having them appear in the same case #and interacting with zero tension was probably one of the things it did worst. #also awful that im still thinking about him. he's gotten in my head.

[qc-wiggles]

happy birthday and two days to my first jmart, may ye rest in your freshly out of genshin phase peace…

#i realise i always draw martin with at least a cup of tea #and most often holding multiple cups of tea in one hand #can he do that? was he confident enough in the early archives days to do that? #has he ever tripped? yes he has. stupid question #on the topic of art progress. im glad being into tma forced me to draw people that looked like people #ginger martin -> asian martin pipeline real? #(i started projecting onto him) #anyways i just finished my exams and im working on 2 winter non denominational gift exchange pieces yippee #wiggly pen #doodle #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma s2

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Everyone Look At My Son. Look At Him.

#baby boy... baby... #all he wants to do is be left alone to cook #ive been working harder on improving my dragons. i think its showing! #Drawing for Friend motivation is so fucking strong #me normally: ehhh ill progress slowly as ever who cares #me when scribbling stuff for friends: I Have To Excel. I Have To Be The Best Artist I Can Be. For Them <3 #but also i want more variation in my dragons #both for worldbuilding reasons and for eeeeheheheeee Dragon<3<3<3 reasons #scribble salad #not-fish <3 #i think i finally know the vibe for the shoredrakes... #and those vibes are Sealy! pinniped components!

[sp00ky-scary]

Have a lizzie wip

This needs a lot of work

#work in progress #wip #ever after high #eah #lizzie hearts #digital art #my art

[catzgam3rz]

BACK ON MY QSMP CATCH UP GRIND

PLEASE Take the best boy Chayanne! I love him so much.

(Hes based of a magpie which was inspired from @cloudster-the-clown 's design which is FANTASTIC)

#my art #mcyt #qsmp #qsmp chayanne #chayanne #chayanne the egg #mcyt designs #AJ IS DRAWING BLOCK GUYS AGAIN *CLANG CLANG CLANG* #Also cloudster if you ever see these tags I would kill for your linework and line of action in your work it is SO tasty and SO well done #also your dragon feet? I wish I were you AUGH #seriously go check them out because all of their art is SO CLEAN AND GOOD #uh but anyways #i am onnnn april 7th? of Phils qsmp vods? so we're making SOME progress ;w; #might do an armoured version once I see more of Chayanne lol #also did Phil do any streams when he first? got?? chayanne? because the earliest with chayanne I can see they explore a ship with other fol #but hey thats the vod watcher life ig

[lunarharp]

pretty & cute witch men

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i'm not drawing as much or as well as i'd like to be doing. i'm trying to get through a comic i've been really wanting to do #but i'm just finding it so hard. disheartening. btw the 2nd one relates to some official art of qif wearing a dress like the girls #and the 4th one relates to how i've been drawing EXTREMELY SMALL for years. idk how to explain it but i always clicked 'fit to screen' #and so all my art EVER has looked bad when you zoom in bc it's already like size 1 zoomed in to the MAX pfhgguguhfpfhGHAHHHHH #i was so confused allll this time why brushes always look different for me than what they're supposed to #'wow this brush is so jaggedy..really rather jaggedy...calling it the Jagged Cai Special..bringing it out for those jaggedy moments.. #really quite jaggedy i must say...' and it's literally not jaggedy #but now i have to get used to how all those brushes that i'd gotten used to indeed look how they're supposed to finally. Alarming #I have simply been working out absolutely everything by myself for years and that's why my technical progress is slow #ppl say my progress is fast and i certainly have improved much since i began doing all this but #like..it took me a year and half to start using a program where i could Colour In The Lines aka the..whatever it's called. whatever.. #just on my lonely confused solemn journey to express gay love better than yesterday.. -_- *picks up my pack n continues through the snow* #btw thank you sm for people's kind words enjoying my narumitsu art & fic over the christmas & new year period <3

[youremyonlyhope]

I love when I see posts like "Share how many crochet WIPs you currently have! I have 5, it's so many!"

Like, girl, I have unfinished projects from over a decade ago that I refuse to frog on the off chance I decide to finish them. I've found years-old projects I forgot I even started and will impulsively just finish it on the spot. I've started three different projects in the last 2 months, including one I started yesterday, that I already know I may or may not finish within the year depending on motivation.

The number of WIPs I have is infinite.

#crochet #knitting #needlepoint #sewing #embroidery #shoutout to the time it took me 4 years to make my dad a hat. and like 6 years to make a turtle for a teacher. #i picked up yarn spinning for ONE day in like 2017. i have not done it since. #there's a half finished elephant amigurumi sitting in a basket and i started that guy in like 2011 #i have two maybe three shawls i know of that are sitting unfinished in a storage bag #plenty of swatches of things that i start and lose interest in #currently i have a cardigan i wanted to make and started it and then got bored so i stopped #there's a hat i was knitting for my nanna that i started maybe 2 days before she passed #and that's sat unfinished i can't even look at it. i have no clue if i'll ever actually finish it. #there's at least one skirt i never finished sewing. and two skirts i have all the materials for but haven't started. #i know i have one beach cover up dress and one cover up skirt that i started in 2017 and didn't finish. #i think my oldest work in progress though dates back to when i was 9 or 10. i made a slipper. never finished the other foot. #that was in 2005 or 06. so literally i might have WIPs older than someone who is reading this. #and those are the just some of the ones i REMEMBER. buried in my yarn stash are probably others i've just forgotten.

[leefyberrybread]

A bunch o' WIPs and progress pictures from some of the bigger things I’m currently working on :)

I’m already 12 hours into this over ambitious Pharma painting and I don’t even think I’m halfway done. I started this in late October and I’m taking a bit of a break from it to learn how to paint metal and just get back in the groove of painting things.

MS paint seeker thing I started in the time period where i lost access to photoshop and before i got clip studio (August lol). So far, this has been so FUN to work on and experiment with funky bright colors

And finally, Stormmyyyyy I started a few days ago but he is the saddest guy in the world rn

#transformers #art wips #corndogyyy art #my art #tf idw #pharma #idw pharma #tf pharma #brainstorm #starscream #thundercracker #skywarp #idw brainstorm #work in progress #THANK YOU MS PAINT FOR ADDING LAYERS #you still have to save as an image so you cant save the layers when you reopen whatever you work on but its still a bit better #also i think digitally painting and traditionally painting and mspaint and making simple doodles has rewired my brain to do everything on #like one layer cuz im using a bit more layers now and it feels weird ehfkjsfhkjdfhkdf #i feel like ive lost my braincells and a bit more marbles ever since i started working on that pharma painting. #he put the pain in painting #I HAD TO RESKETCH HIM SO MUCH AND THAT CHAINSAW........i. i dont know anymore......so much grief and pain #why did i decide to do this?? i dont know but i feel like my 5 years of art training has prepared me for this moment. to paint pharma #also i feel like im still definitely learning how to do digital art in a more efficient way or i just need to get used to using a digital #program to make art but maybe its like the 3 month art block and high school burn out talking and im trying to just draw more in general. #i feel like i forgot how to do a lot of things and im forcing myself to restudy stuff and get used to just doodling all the time again :) #also i have a little somethin somethin about whirl i'll post soon :} #man i just realized they are all jets. big jet posting hours at 2 am lets goooo