What is artistic honesty? I doubt that it's an official term, but more of a thought that I had recently.

When I say artistic honesty, I mean creating art that reflects you. For instance, some songwriters will write songs about subjects they don't even mean or songs that do not represent them or mean anything to them in any way. They are just writing it because they like it. They don't have any connection to it or they've never really experienced it. On that note, is that why most pop singers sing about break-ups and love because that's all that matters to them? That is all they can identify with?

What brought this thought up was that I draw muscular men from time to time, more often than not, while I am not muscular or in any way fit myself. I'll state for the record that I hate my body, but I won't go into details. But I draw muscular, often naked and erotic, men, which is why I am unable to post upon this site. (I'm aware of Y!Gallery, just apprehensive to joining for personal reasons). So, me being not fit and the fact that I am drawing men who are, also men who are hung, does that make me artistically dishonest? Am I just succumbing to the idealisation of it all? Sure, I myself could try and be muscular, but many things prevent me. One is the thought of:

"Wait, somewhere down the line I'm going to wish that I hadn't done this because this is something that is permanent."

I understand the health benefits and all, but a part of me feels that if I go that far down the line, I may wish I hadn't later. So, does that mean I should stop drawing muscular men and stick to realistic drawings? I'm always about trying to make things mostly unreal to look as realistic as possible in my drawings, but...maybe I should just stick to doing things realistic and be more reflective of myself instead of drawing naked, muscular, hung men.

I'm not ashamed of who I am, just worried that people may get the wrong idea.