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Hello, thank you so much! It's mainly by drawing lots of figures and studying gesture. I'd advise studying gestures by grabbing a reference image and finding its line of action & building the pose off of that.

For a fun little challenge, first try to catch the movement of the reference image exactly as you see it, and then draw it for a second time, but this time heavily exaggerating it. (In this reference's case, the person leaning would have their back almost touching the floor, for example.)

Once you get the hang of that, drawing characters is basically the same!

I've also recorded a timelapse showing how I approach it which will be right below. (and right under it the still images for anybody unable to follow it clearly.)

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

you have this mysterious fish that  no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species. 

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

I gave Umbra a redesign, going along the same vein as Anqet’s design, except he gets a starface and little back legs to be a nuisance to boats with. He’s an abandoned catch-and-release of the Ladder when they were studying bioengineering in the Trench Stations along the rim of Hellmouth. He’s still got a dormant tracking chip floating around in his body.

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Got some Grade A Senshi propaganda right he- OH GOD OH NO

Senshi... I'm so sorry oh my god I dont know what happened or where that water bucket came from jesus christ all mighty

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