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if I've not got a specific pose in mind beforehand, I'll skim through my "drawing references" board on pinterest and make a collage of a few photos that are similar enough to one another, but still differ in subtle way, which offers a variety of angles go at it from.

I have a confession to make... I've yet to watch the Dune films 😭

specifically like how do your poses look so expressive but realistic

AAAAAAAA omg, thank you for the compliment!! I'm flattered that you think so highly of my art 🥹 it warms my heart to know that so many other fans of Anton/Javier Bardem's other characters (as well as of Javier himself) regard my work as worthy of such praise!

I can't tell you how glad I am that you think the way I pose the subjects in my pieces is both realistic, yet expressive! that's something I often find myself struggling with when I draw, because maintaining that dynamacy as you continue to work on a piece can sometimes be hard, and more often than not I'll be unhappy with the end result of a piece because it'll feel too stiff due to my having gotten carried away whilst polishing it--so, this serves as a huge boost to my confidence in my work!

as for the poses themselves, I usually pull up a photo reference on my laptop to glance at as I work (I draw all of my digital art on my phone), because having what is essentially a visual guide to the human body and it's complexities while drawing the human body helps a LOT. references are an artist's best friend!

nowadays I don't have to use references as much because I was essentially studying anatomy when using them and drawings bodies sorta feels like muscle memory, if that makes sense?

as I'm sure y'all have noticed by now, I'm terrible at remembering to post wips--about as terrible as I am at actually finishing them. smh 😔

here's a sorta smutty (censored!!) wip of Triton and an OC (his name is Meredith--and before you ask, yes, his face claim is Jason Miller. how predictable of me, I know 🤪) from a few months back that I forgot to post because we were in the middle of moving, which I DESPERATELY need to finish and WILL do so as soon as Cape Fear has released it's white-knuckled grip on me.

yes, I am still on my bardemiller bullshit, and am currently hyperfixated on the sorta/kinda crack ship that is Javier's portrayal of Max Cady in AppleTV's Cape Fear (he's so 🥵) x a version of Sam Bowden who we've casted Jason Miller in the hypothetical role of.