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September 18, 2023

Sexless

by David M Willis on November 8, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Bring Me to Life Drawing

└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Joe (glancing over): “Um, your sketch pad is just covered in ding-dongs. I’ve been looking closely, the model doesn’t-”

    Joyce: “It’s the only naughty bit I have experience drawing, okay?!“

    • Nova
      Nova
      November 8, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

      Thank you for being the first comment actually relevant to the comic instead of some shilling for the next social media company.

      Personal theory: Her sketchpad is full of Dorothy’s face on the model’s body. XD

      • Ophidiophile
        Ophidiophile
        November 8, 2022 at 5:18 am | #

        Nah, she’s drawing boobs. Big boobs.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          November 8, 2022 at 7:07 am | #

          I’m sure Sal’s rich flowing chocolate hair is in there.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 8, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

      Haha. I wonder what it will be… Is Joe secretly an excellent artist and draftsperson? Is Joyce drawing lovingly detailed crotches or skipping that part? Is she just doing cartoons?

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    “it’s weird that I can acclimate to something after being exposed to it for longer than the time it takes to kneejerk”

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

      (alt joke that I’m second guessing posting but oh well):

      “I thought a naked person in the presence of others resulted in INSTANT ORGIES”

      “I would say my dad as a doctor would attest otherwise, but I’m not ENTIRELY sure…?”

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Yeah, Joyce gets it. It’s pretty unerotic all things considered.

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      November 8, 2022 at 1:20 am | #

      Ayup. Commented on that a few days back. Life drawing is rarely sexy.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        November 8, 2022 at 2:41 am | #

        Especially if they don’t turn the heat up for the male models. Female models tend to display more in a cold room, but for male models “some shrinkage may occur”. I have some experience as a nude model, but for photography not drawing. And never mixed gender.

    • anon
      anon
      November 8, 2022 at 4:01 am | #

      unless it’s specifically a sexually charged one on one flirty kinda ‘let me model for you ;P’ kinda deal, i imagine a classroom asking a model to make it more sexual would be considered harassment/charge a lot more lol.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        November 8, 2022 at 6:53 pm | #

        “Draw me like one of your Fre–oh dang it’s cold in here don’t you have a space heater?”

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        November 8, 2022 at 9:27 pm | #

        Oh, well, yes. But that’s generally one on one with a lover, usually in a warm and private place, like a bedroom. Totally different vibe.

  4. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    I love that Joe sticks his tongue out when he concentrates. I do the same thing. So does my granny.

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 8, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

      blep!

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      November 8, 2022 at 11:18 pm | #

      My wife and daughter refer to it as the Tongue of Concentration. It’s their shared superpower.

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 8, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Also I drew Robin.
    https://imgur.com/a/A2JeAdU

    • Chordi
      Chordi
      November 8, 2022 at 2:39 am | #

      this is super cute!! nice drawing!

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      November 8, 2022 at 7:10 am | #

      The Genki is strong in this one. Its like a frame before the Roadrunner zooms away.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      November 8, 2022 at 8:20 am | #

      We do appreciate a Robin from time to time.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      November 8, 2022 at 3:47 pm | #

      😁Neat!!!

  6. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    November 8, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Ah, she is an artist!

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 8, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

      I figure there’s at least a 50/50 chance she’s not hiding her drawings because they’re of a naked person, but because they’re all absolutely terrible augh how am I so bad at this (etc).

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 8, 2022 at 4:29 am | #

        Bashir: Even though they’re actually okay, and she already has her comic in the paper?

        Garak: Especially because they’re actually okay.

        • Kim
          Kim
          November 8, 2022 at 7:16 am | #

          😀

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          November 8, 2022 at 9:15 pm | #

          Who can blame her? There’s nothing worse than just being okay.

  7. James
    James
    November 8, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Having taken life drawing classes, yeah. It is possibly the most sexless atmosphere to involve nudity ever.

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 8, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      I will see and raise you “autopsy”.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        November 8, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

        Ideally.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          November 8, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

          one would hope

      • Dean
        Dean
        November 8, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

        Excuse me, I remain fully clothed while performing autopsies. That’s a mistake you only make once.

        • Vanessa
          Vanessa
          November 8, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

          Oh dear let’s hope so!

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          November 9, 2022 at 2:37 pm | #

          It’s not like it’s warm.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 8, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

        …. so, once again, we arrive at zombies.

        • Proxiehunter
          Proxiehunter
          November 8, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

          As long as zombies don’t arrive at us.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            November 8, 2022 at 2:51 am | #

            Hey, what have the undead ever done to you? We’re people too. And I have never had any desire to consume humans.

  8. Nono
    Nono
    November 8, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Wait, has Joe not flipped even one page of his sketch… easel?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 8, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      Well if they’re doing quick sketches he might not be drawing them particularly big.

      • Nono
        Nono
        November 8, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

        Maybe it’s just me, but I remember as someone who wasn’t even remotely good at art, when starting out I drew everything bigger so that it was easier to try to do ‘finer’ details.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          November 8, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

          yes, but quick sketches (15/30 seconds) you don’t really have a lotta time to draw big.

          • Shade
            Shade
            November 8, 2022 at 3:41 am | #

            Yeah you also wouldn’t have time for finer details either so tiny sketches make sense.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      November 8, 2022 at 12:53 am | #

      I doesn’t even look like he has any paper. That may be an error on Willis’s part or maybe Joe’s drawing on the easel itself (or a sticky note?).

      • Nono
        Nono
        November 8, 2022 at 1:21 am | #

        Maybe it’s like an etch-a-sketch.

      • Holly
        Holly
        November 8, 2022 at 1:22 am | #

        I went back to check and he didn’t have a notepad with him when he turned up. Joyce has one cause she was bought one, and the other students showing up had their own, so the doofus is possibly too shy to ask for some paper and drawing on the easel!

        • davidbreslin101
          davidbreslin101
          November 8, 2022 at 8:35 am | #

          Yep, he got dragged along for moral support and doesn’t have his own pad. He was definitely drawing a couple of strips ago, though.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 8, 2022 at 2:34 am | #

      I assumed he was poaching individual pages from Joyce’s sketchpad

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 8, 2022 at 4:30 am | #

      I think Joyce just gave him a couple sheets out of the sketchpad Dorothy got for her.

    • Plaaaa
      Plaaaa
      November 8, 2022 at 9:45 am | #

      Joe isn’t an aspiring artist, he’s just enjoying the view.

  9. Suet
    Suet
    November 8, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    So Joyce drew a sterile, sexless person, then?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 8, 2022 at 4:31 am | #

      The pencil lines just kind of stop around the chest and crotch.

      One page has an eraser hole in it.

  10. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    November 8, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 13: Sure, There’s a Naked Person, But There’s a Very Sterile, Sexless Vibe

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      November 8, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      …I second this motion. All in favor?

      • Jon
        Jon
        November 8, 2022 at 1:52 am | #

        Aye!

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      November 8, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      Precisely what I came here to post.

    • jackiedu46k
      jackiedu46k
      November 8, 2022 at 8:25 pm | #

      Were gonna end up with a lot of titles

  11. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    November 8, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Joyce has lost all interest in art class as a result.

  12. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    November 8, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    In my head Joyce sounded like Gollum (Andy Serkis’s interpretation) in the last panel.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 8, 2022 at 12:41 am | #

      I’m thinking Ep III Vader.

  13. YordleJay
    YordleJay
    November 8, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

    I didn’t say it earlier but I love how Joe has just accepted he’s taking the sit in with Joyce

    • Nerrin
      Nerrin
      November 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      Eh, he’s had worse dates.

      Also with Joyce.

      • Nono
        Nono
        November 8, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

        Funny thing is we’ve only seen Joe’s dates when they’re with Joyce.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          November 8, 2022 at 2:54 am | #

          No, we saw the date with Sarah’s sister whose name escapes me who eventually got to David Letterman’s alma mater Ball State, and Malaya in the Slipshine.

          • Nono
            Nono
            November 8, 2022 at 3:34 am | #

            I don’t think that’s a date.

      • Cerusee
        Cerusee
        November 8, 2022 at 7:14 am | #

        Oh my god this is a date isn’t it

        Especially if they get that pizza afterwards

        Joyce and Joe explaining their courtship to their their kids in twenty years like, oh, it was SO romantic. The Kids: what did you do on your first date? Did you kiss? Joe: no, your mom hired this kid we knew to punch me in the face repeatedly. The Kids: what? Joe: you know what happened to him? He DIED. I didn’t do it though. Totally unrelated. The Kids: oh good I guess. Joyce: on our second date six months later your dad followed me to life drawing class and we drew pictures of naked people together. The Kids: …what? Joyce: it was a female model so I absolutely did not draw any ding-dongs. The Kids: that seems like an awfully specific detail

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      I mean, he’s already here, may as well, right?

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    I’m so glad I’ve never had a class that made me sit in these chairs. This looks terrible.

    • thakoru
      thakoru
      November 8, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Oh god I hadn’t noticed it until you pointed it out thanks I hate it.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      November 8, 2022 at 1:03 am | #

      You don’t even know, Yoto! Those chairs are terrible. We had to sit on those for whole courses and after like 2 weeks students started to bring in their own stools and pillows cause those drawing seats are trash to sit on for 10 minutes let alone over a hour.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 8, 2022 at 2:28 am | #

      They look extremely uncomfortable.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        November 8, 2022 at 5:25 am | #

        Not just to sit on, but also to draw on. Not everyone is that farsighted!

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 8, 2022 at 11:13 am | #

      When those first appeared in the comic, I was like “wtf are those, how are you supposed to sit on … wait, seriously?”

    • Joyfulldreams
      Joyfulldreams
      November 8, 2022 at 9:42 pm | #

      They ARE extremely uncomfortable but the logic behind them is somewhat sound for when you’re drawing on a very large thing–usually a giant pad of newsprint paper–so you need to be able to lean it against something stable, have it within comfortable arms reach, and not be so directly in front of your face as to block your view of the thing you’re drawing. You can also have all of your various materials right in front of you spread out nicely.

      Could at least fucking put a cushion on them or something though.

  15. Nelly Dreadful
    Nelly Dreadful
    November 8, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    Life drawing classes are partly about teaching you to see the body you’re drawing as just shapes you need to try to get down on paper. Light and shadow, negative and positive space. And you DO start seeing that body that way, extremely quickly. I wound up doing a charcoal drawing that was centered and zoomed on the model’s dong once by accident, just because of where I started drawing and the viewing angle I was working from, and I swear to god it did not even register that I was drawing genitalia until after the picture was finished because I was entirely focused in on getting the shading right.

    And I did! The shading on that dong was IMMACULATE.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 8, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

      Very nice, I wonder what your teacher thought. They had probably seen that happen quite a lot already though!

      • Peep
        Peep
        November 8, 2022 at 11:29 am | #

        Yeah I have to imagine life drawing teachers are not gonna be fazed by a drawing or two centered on a dong. Maybe if your whole sheet was nothing but dong-centered drawings they might encourage you to take some time to study other parts of the body, but even then, heck, dongs are a valid area of study in their own right 😛

    • Nono
      Nono
      November 8, 2022 at 1:21 am | #

      More like… shadong.

  16. bagge
    bagge
    November 8, 2022 at 12:27 am | #

    The ding-dong bandit strikes again

  17. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    November 8, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

    At least she’s starting to get it.

    Also: Joe: Come on, you’re already seeing a naked person in front of you.

    Joyce: No! This is my drawing!

    Joe: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours?

    Joyce: STOP TALKING!

    Model: I am both flattered and annoyed.

  18. Raen
    Raen
    November 8, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

    Joe: “Uh… she hasn’t got a…”

    Joyce: “Artistic license!”

    • Raen
      Raen
      November 8, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

      “Also probably-autistic license!”

      • Raen
        Raen
        November 8, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

        (…sorry, as soon as I’d typed the first post, my dad joke vibes went into overdrive.)

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        November 8, 2022 at 4:48 am | #

        Autistic license is when you put way too much detail into one part of your art, while almost ignoring the parts that don’t interest you.

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          November 9, 2022 at 2:41 pm | #

          THIS FOREARM IS BEAUTIFUL IT DOESNT NEED ELBOWS

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      November 8, 2022 at 7:03 pm | #

      Joyce discovers futanari.
      This marks a significant stage in the evolution of the Ding Dong Bandit.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        November 8, 2022 at 8:19 pm | #

        I’m into it. Joyce goes full-on Weird with it and starts drawing people she doesn’t like, except they all have massive, veiny cocks that defy all human logic.

  19. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 8, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

    Joyce is a natural cartoonist. Yes, the model was going to get naked anyway, and yes, a lot of renderings were going to be drawn of her, but only Joyce is able to make this into a comic strip.

    *flees for dear punning life*

    • vulcanodon
      vulcanodon
      November 8, 2022 at 7:11 am | #

      Boooooo!

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      November 8, 2022 at 7:04 pm | #

      Wendy Weiss approves this message.

  20. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    November 8, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

    I like that Joe seems like he’s actually having a good time sketching. Wonder if he’ll get into art, too.

  21. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    November 8, 2022 at 1:01 am | #

    What is Joe drawing on anyway? Joyce clearly has a sketchbook. Is Joe just sketching on the drawing board itself?

    • Axel
      Axel
      November 8, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

      loose pages from Joyce or the professor maybe

  22. JA
    JA
    November 8, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

    Ah, Joyce figured it out.

  23. anon
    anon
    November 8, 2022 at 3:59 am | #

    i mean i know she had religious parents growing up but with 4-5(?) brothers in the house you’d think she’d end up seeing at least one of them naked at some point lol

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 8, 2022 at 4:43 am | #

      I have four siblings and have never once seen any of them naked over the age of two. (And as the youngest Joyce wouldn’t have had even that opportunity.) It’s not that hard to avoid, honestly. Locks and knocks pretty much do it.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        November 8, 2022 at 5:27 am | #

        …if everyone has their own room and their own bathroom, which is apparently a thing in the US.

      • Cerusee
        Cerusee
        November 8, 2022 at 7:24 am | #

        Ditto, two sisters, and I don’t think I saw either of them even partially unclothed once we were old enough to bathe ourselves, until well into adulthood when we’d gotten over any lingering adolescent body awkwardness enough to share changing rooms while clothes shopping.

        My MOM though, lol. She’s the kind of person why doesn’t close the bathroom door when she pees, and sleeps in the nude. When I was growing up, due to the way the living arrangements were set up, she had to pass through the top of an open staircase to get to her bathroom, and if she was getting up at 2am to pee, she did *not* throw on a robe.

        Now that I’M an adult who prefers to sleep in the buff, I get it. I don’t have kids myself, but if I did, there is a very high chance that same scenario would have played itself out many, many times by now.

  24. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    November 8, 2022 at 5:25 am | #

    This will end in a crossover.

  25. Liara
    Liara
    November 8, 2022 at 5:31 am | #

    Don’t you judge me hovertext!

  26. vulcanodon
    vulcanodon
    November 8, 2022 at 7:04 am | #

    Wonder if she wants to hide her drawings because she thinks they’re bad, or because she thinks they’re still too naked-y? Instructor’s gonna look at them.

    Spouse and I loved the anime series “Blue Period” where a young man wants to get into art school. There’s a scene with his first life drawing and he only has about ten seconds of apprehension until he gets buried by how hard it is. Later when he starts to succeed it’s so triumphant

  27. Zee
    Zee
    November 8, 2022 at 7:51 am | #

    This is getting dangerously close to a Slipshine.

  28. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    November 8, 2022 at 7:58 am | #

    Joyce already done 3 pages and you’re still drawing on the wood, get a grip Joe~

    • Adept
      Adept
      November 8, 2022 at 8:50 am | #

      Well spotted 😀

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 8, 2022 at 11:24 am | #

      If she gave him loose sheets from her sketchpad, they wouldn’t be curled over the top of the easel thing.

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 8, 2022 at 8:05 am | #

    Last panel Joyce… so precious ♡. At this point I think this is not the same drawing class Mary and Malaya are attending. Too bad, I was hoping Joyce would join them as a weird trio of troublemakers. I hope that Joe will continue to go with her to the next classes as well. Maybe he could end up helping Joyce draw the comic.

    • vulcanodon
      vulcanodon
      November 8, 2022 at 9:47 am | #

      Oh at the very least he’s gonna end up IN the comic…

      • Liara
        Liara
        November 8, 2022 at 10:22 am | #

        not if she can get some white-out

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 8, 2022 at 11:59 am | #

      It’s a shame, but I don’t think we’ve seen them there since last semester, so not surprising.

  30. Caro
    Caro
    November 8, 2022 at 10:51 am | #

    i adore joe’s face in the first panel

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 8, 2022 at 11:26 am | #

      He bleps when he concentrates.

  31. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    November 8, 2022 at 1:17 pm | #

    I mean, they still straddling their benches

  32. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    November 8, 2022 at 2:49 pm | #

    Joyce, eventually teacher will call everybody to pass in all tables to see and talk about each work. And they will want to see yours, too.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 8, 2022 at 4:14 pm | #

      [Shocked Joyce face dot png] intensifies

  33. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    November 8, 2022 at 6:51 pm | #

    Coming up in the next Slipshine: Just a series of live figure drawing, both Joyce’s and Joe’s. Starting at stick figure level and progressing seamlessly to Sarah Deibele level.

  34. Wendy
    Wendy
    November 8, 2022 at 7:10 pm | #

    I, too, wanna see Joyce’s drawings

  35. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    November 8, 2022 at 8:50 pm | #

    It’s almost like it’s not sexual at all
    At most there’s like, sexual subtext, but like, seriously, what is this, a porno? Grow up

    Also i wanna see her drawing lol, that has to be good

    • toby
      toby
      November 8, 2022 at 10:19 pm | #

      Ofc she struggles to separate artistic nudity from sexual nudity… Shes been an intense fundie her whole life up until like, a couple weeks ago and isn’t suddenly un-repressed and instilled with all knowledge.

      Honestly she’s doing really well all things considered.

  36. Codex
    Codex
    November 9, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Well, sexless sure! But I do at least try to put a little bit of sensuality into some of my poses. Although I mainly pose for adults who are having a fun evening with a bit of wine so I suppose the vibe is different in a university setting

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