the thing is matoba would be SUCH an izaya kinnie and he would kin assign natori as shizuo and natori would be pissed off at being kin assigned yet another anime character by matoba but just like the shinji kin assigning he’d realize he actually does relate very much to shizuo and he’s like “maybe matoba secretly cares and sees me for who I am….” but really matoba just enjoys and thinks it’s hot when he finds steamy yaoi fanart of popularly headcanoned gay anime couples and kin assigning them as him and natori so he can imagine it’s him and natori together while natori is sad and pensive alone in his room thinking about the complexities of all the anime boys matoba has kin assigned him as
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hi your art is such a huge inspiration for me!!!!!!! i love it so much, the dynamic poses and coloring scratch my brain /pos... do you have any tips for a good anatomy? yours is impeccable!!!
hi, thank you so much for your kind words ^_^ im always surprised and happy when people like my art enough to ask for advice and ill try my hardest to share some tips that have helped me.
im sorry if this is unhelpful or incomprehensible, as ive never done any type of tutorial or anything ^_^' (ill also only rlly be focusing on chest/arms as examples but most of this is applicable to anything. also srry for the shitty drawings LOL)
finding the simplified shapes of bodies and learning how to layer them is key, and i like to visualize that by defining the chest/shoulders as the top layer. the chest connecting to the shoulders and making that "hook" shape defines the shoulders as well as helping with shaping the rest of the arm. connecting the tops of the shoulders into the collarbone helps with anatomy when it comes to perspectives as well.
this is probably the first anatomy trick i ever learned, and while i dont need to use it constantly, its still massively helpful when im having trouble with arms. the trick is to draw circles for the shoulder and the wrist/hand, connect them with a line, and then from the middle of the line you can extend to your discretion to draw an elbow circle. connect all the circles and you have an arm guideline ^_^
an important part of anatomy is learning how skin and fat work- when the arm/leg bends the fat and skin push together and "pudge" a bit. i literally cannot put it in words properly so im just gonna pray this drawing gets the point across enough
my ultimate advice- PRACTICE !!! i draw a lot of miniature naked people, and while im still practicing anatomy and poses and perspective, the small scale lets me be less worried about messing up, making it look good, and spending too much time in one place. anatomy is hard and not everything is gonna look good, so dont worry too much about everything looking perfect, just get practice in and DONT BE AFRAID TO USE REFERENCES !!! look hard at your reference photos and think about how the fat and muscles and tendons are layered and connected. good luck!
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On a happier note, I am enjoying having to research baby milestones for the Midwifery Charge AU (fic and nostalgia rambles below the cut)
(which at this point, thanks to the help of a good friend, I've realised is best done as a collection of lil one shots from moments in it. I just. don't have the mental anything nor the organisation to do a multichap full fic rn. Y'all know I lose steam too easily on those and just don't do them as well as I do simple oneshots. I wrote a full original trilogy at age 10 and again at like age 21; I used all my 'full multichap project' juice too early in life AND both trilogies kind of sucked ass. RIP to them may their memory never find me again let alone be a blessing but I digress)
Bc it means I get to remember all the cute shit the cousins did when I was helping raise them and like. certain bits can be used for baby in the fic even!
Like how the oldest one learned to roll over from one direction, but then couldn't replicate it going the other way, and she would just. lose her shit wailing until someone rolled her over that way. Then she was good until oh fuck oh no, she rolled over right to left again and to her lil brain it was too different from rolling left to right, she's stuck forever oh g-oh hey someone rolled her back to her tummy. neat.
We never let her sit for more than a second or two stuck (mostly to try and encourage her to. ya know. Realise that she could in fact roll herself both ways and it would be fine. Took her time but she got there lol) and I'm just
Dying at the image of the crew so carefully taking turns watching Baby (who I'm gonna reveal bc I don't think I have yet? if i have ignore me lol, is named Basilica after Izzy's deadname (he gave her the name, there's an entire Thing abt it and little moments abt his journey as a trans man tucked into this au), going by Baz for short (thank u to the aforementioned good friend for this as a nickname for the full name, bc I was struggling to figure out how to shorten it and Baz is !!! perfect!!!) )
And she's been with them longer than expected. 4-6 months is the average that I've found for when babies learn to roll over, so maybe she's abt 5 months old at this point.
Doing tummy time with Fang and she does it! Right to left rolling over, absolutely perfect, stunning, no notes, they're gonna make her a medal but-
Oh no. She's gotta roll left to right now, and instead of rolling the other way she just panics and weeps and everyone on this ship is a big fuckin softy (i get it lol, I was with the cousins) so they keep rolling her over the other way to calm her.
Until they have a crew meeting and Jim mentions Nana telling them that sometimes, babies have to just. cry for a minute or two and learn how to do the thing. You can help, but first you have to let them try and encourage them to do it on their own. (they gloss over the fact that Jim also makes clear with this anecdote that Nana absolutely would have taught a baby how to throw a knife. And honestly, is she wrong for this? who can say, not me, but I like knives and think a baby with a knife is hilarious, so I'm biased. I'm never gonna have kids, don't worry lmao.)
Cut to everyone having tummy time while the ship is docked/anchored somewhere safeish (let's be real, for the Kraken crew, nowhere is really fully safe with all the raiding they've been doing. But Ed and Izzy and Fang all know the quieter spots other ppl have forgotten that they can rotate going to for moments like this)
In a circle, around Basilica on the blanket Frenchie designed and knit for her, while she whines and cries bc goddamn it, why is rolling the other direction so hard? So scary?
And they're all lowkey trying not to cry (Ed and Izzy the most out of all of them, for varying personal reasons that all ultimately culminate in a want for Basilica to have a better childhood than they did, including the little moments/early achievements like this) while babytalking like mad, trying to encourage her to roll the other way
It's just not happening, but juuuust as Izzy is abt to break and gently roll her over, a cannon booms in the distance
And if that adorable little shit doesn't roll left to right, then again, trying to lift her head up to see where the big noise came from. She's not even crying anymore, she's just curious!
Unfortunately, said cannon is a sign they need to head out, so they have to pick her up and get her settled in Ed's room(really Ed and Izzy's room, by this point. Are they back together in a healthy way? Not really, but they're Aware of their mutual issues and are just barely talking some of them through. or starting that process, at least) for her own safety and now she's crying bc she's so mad! She wanted to keep rolling over! She was literally on a roll, how fucking dare they pluck her off the floor so easily!!
Despite the potential incoming danger of another ship, everyone is giggling as they get the ship moving. I'm envisioning it like. U know when a baby is So Mad So Incensed, they're making those angry babbles that are loud enough to hear a room away? That sound is all they can hear aside from the waves and the far off cannon fire, and it's a mood lightener. Yeah, they might be about to fight for their lives, but listen to her! She's swearing! (I do absolutely have an idea for her first word being 'fuck' thanks to Izzy lmaooo)
And they're all as excited to escape not just for their lives, but so they can lay the blanket out again and have her show off her new skill. A little soft moment in between having to fight to save themselves or raiding for more loot (and baby gear/supplies, my god not a one of them ever thought they'd be threatening ppl for additional cloth diapers but. here they are lol.)
Anyway. Eventually I'm gonna get all the snippets posted up in an ao3 collection, including the few I've already posted here. When I get that started I'll drop a link, in the meantime I'm gonna see if I can get my brain to actually finish another oneshot for this au today lmao
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