I wouldn't know how to overly sexualize a male character.
On the other hand, I know how to sexualize a female character.
On the third hand, I do not know how to draw so it does not matter.
You don't do much to overly sexualize a male character. You just make them attractive and depending on the audience you want you just play into that personality, women will quite literally do the rest of the work from my experience. You could do a lot of things vanity-wise but that can also backfire a lot.
If they like buff manly men then all that guy needs to do is take his shirt off and they will say a lot of things... in some cases they say some really heinous things considering if I said that about a female character I'd be in the wrong or told that I'm degrading them. This has been actual experiences I've had and is why I just start telling people that everyone sexualizes someone. To drive home that point I just explain if they had a S/O and found them sexually appealing, because most people do for obvious reasons, then you have sexualized your S/O but in that case it's consensual.
For women it's not exactly the looks but the character themselves apparently although the looks definitely still matter and there's probably cases where this doesn't hold up. For men it's usually only the looks they need but there's still cases where it's the character that matters still and the looks also help. More than likely if it's only looks that matter then that person is more about vanity where as if they need the character to have the right personality they care more about that then.
In the end people are people and usually sex drives people, it is how we got here in the current day and age, so they are gonna sexualize something if they aren't ace or sex repulsed by other means. The part that matters is respect and lets face it a lot of female characters that are designed for the "male gaze" tend to not actually be respected and the ones that aren't designed for that tend to be disrespected by a lot of "men". You don't see that too often for male characters, at least I haven't.
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u/VinnyBoy45 13h ago
I wouldn't know how to overly sexualize a male character.
On the other hand, I know how to sexualize a female character.
On the third hand, I do not know how to draw so it does not matter.