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Feeling vaguely arty, so I'm going through the art prompts generator to see if I can get inspiration. I'm not doing this prompt, but it would certainly be quite a challenge. How would you handle it?

Create a portrait of a girl disguised as a boy without using any characteristic normally associated with that sort of person.

P.S. Dinner was Tuna Helper. I realized that I was at the point that if I didn't eat fairly quickly, I was going to get the migraine back, and it was the fastest option. :) I wanted the artichoke, but it would have been 45 minutes minimum until I ate, and I couldn't take that risk. It'll be there tomorrow.

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I suppose it would depend on what 'that sort of person' meant. Perhaps without the cliches of crossdressing?

Entirely up to the artist. :D My first thought was "without male clothing", and I'm still unsure how to do it.

Maybe a girl dressed up as a drag queen?

My first thought was Kino from Kino's Journey, but that's up to how the person interprets her, as she doesn't really think of herself as any sort of specific gender.

Clearly she would be topless.

what about those girls who look like 12 year old boys trying to pass off as girls. OK HEADACHE.

Stereotype of "girl dressed as boy" has the girl being gamine-cute anyway. A girl dressed as a boy and *not* cute might be different. Perhaps as some sort of manual laborer: rough, physical, no twinkle. Or perhaps not a slender, willowy girl; what about a fat, homely girl disguised as a boy?

Big chef points to you for going so far as Tuna Helper; when I get like that I just open the can and start eating...

<.<;;

Mirror, magic, nudity! :D ?

Er that is, spells casting type things in the background, a mirror that shows a girl, only instead of being plain looking or plucky heroine she is a drop dead gorgeous sorceress oozing with sex appeal and having an ample chest, slightly dark air, expression calculating, and standing before the mirror a remarkably similar looking boy - same expression, similar features, similar coloured clothing, only the look is for suave and dangerously charming, with a ahahha male version of ample chest. ♥

What? I'm sure that's not the normal way of going about it? :D

Characteristics I'd associate with... would be short hair, fine features, possibly over-compensating with swaggering or masculine body language. Usually high fantasy-style as well, so breeches / riding boots, frilly shirts etc - very Principal Boy.

How about someone who's less gamine than is traditional, dressed in unattractive male slob clothes (tracksuit bottoms, dirty vest etc) but still sitting in a very girl-like way (crossed ankles rather than spread legs) etc?

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