The Fallen Izzy. A Bday Gift For @pirategrime , Commissioned By @greenlikethesea Thank You For A Beautiful

All the BRUISER covers in one place - so excited to release this comic!

The comic will be posted every friday to Webtoon starting april 8th.

“How arw you paying for photoshop” im not LMAO

I'm kind of a beginner when it comes to poses and uh, dinamism, how do you come out with your poses? It just comes to mind or do you find some pose and use it in your drawings? I feel like I have no imagination when it comes to it, and when I do, I cant find the right reference so I'm lost at anatomy

it’s part of imagination and part reference. without getting too long winded, it helps to have a general understanding of anatomy and how the body can look in perspective. but for dynamic poses it’s important to just capture the gesture of the pose so you can really feel movement i guess… like try drawing with your whole arm and doing your first sketch in a minute or less! the more your refine a piece, you’ll be tightening it up and losing some of the strong gesture so don’t be afraid to really push it at first

the soulburner drawing was mostly from imagination (i started with a photo ref but ditched it immediately) but like you can see in the process video i did a bunch of really fast, exaggerated sketches of the pose before reeling it in to something more tight and toned down

alternatively- i’ve been wanting to experiment more with dynamic poses which has led me to a bad habit of impulse buying pose collection books from a japanese bookstore near me

i only have fighting pose collections but they’re really good to pull from! i don’t usually copy the poses exactly and just use them for reference so it’s pretty handy and versatile. most of them include both clothed and semi-clothed reference of the same actions which is also neat

these books can be kind of expensive but there are a lot of free pose sites and collections around the internet as well (for example off the top of my head, senshistock) 

but yeah i’m kinda talking out of my ass so i hope this gives you a couple ideas (´ . .̫ . `)

Thinking about Izzy Hands, who based his entire sense of identity and structured his whole understanding of life around the "love makes you weak" piracy philosophy that Blackbeard enforced despite both of them being poorly suited to it, and how he deserves so much better than getting cut loose and abandoned like dead weight because Edward was tossed a rope to pull himself out of the pit they were both stuck in while Izzy is still trying to grasp the pit actually ends.

Thinking about Edward Teach, who was told as a child that he can't have or keep the things he wants and had that lesson reinforced in his adult life to the point where his individual desires and identity get wrapped up in who he's trying to be at any given moment, and how he deserves so much better than happiness with fine print stating the price of his new life is permanently cutting out and discarding his old, including the parts of himself he genuinely enjoyed in Blackbeard and the main person he shared that enjoyment with, to build a new persona that is exactly as real and fake as Blackbeard was, just made with different parts to fit in with different people.

Thinking about how they got into this mess together, how they both could see the metaphorical cage and they both seemingly lost their identity - personal and collective - to the strain of hopelessly living in it, and how they both deserve to make it out. Together.

When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

happy pride to trans people who are out and are still misgendered. happy pride to trans people who are 'out' but don't correct people when they're misgendered. happy pride to every trans person who is technically out but everyone around them pretends that they never came out of the closet in the first place.

A season 2 concept poster