I absolutely love everything about this piece!!

Firstly, using the word model in this context is confusing, a better word would be reference.

You’re basing your argument off of your personal experience and what you’ve seen in this sub, and I’m basing it off of mine. I’ve never seen that happen in this sub when it was just a normal everyday woman in the artwork (including on works that display the proportions you listed). What I certainly have seen is an egregious amount of artwork that depicts bodies like Kylie Jenner’s (in some cases even worse and more dramatized than hers) while done in a realistic art style.

I have no problem with women pointing out that proportions like that aren’t natural. There’s nothing wrong with drawing any body type, but when one is trying to capture realism, addressing the fact that natural human anatomy does not look like that can be constructive criticism. Not only that, but it reminds women that their bodies don’t have to look like that.

That’s simply not true. The mainstream beauty standard for women is ridiculously high, and it’s disingenuous to pretend that it’s not. Women don’t look like Kylie Jenner without diet, exercise, and loads of plastic stuffed into them. “Healthy” might be your personal preference, but that’s not the beauty standard, that’s average.

I wasn’t referring to weight, I was referring to the mainstream beauty standard that can only be achieved by the average woman with heavy dieting, workouts, and plastic surgery.

This looks to be an average male body so I don’t understand what you were trying to do with this comment. When people criticize the proportions on drawings of women, it’s generally because they’re legitimately incorrect or just unrealistic/unattainable for 99.9% of the population.