yupppp they do and i wrote a little comic about it that i dont think ill ever get around to making atp lol....
yahya calls shiloh habibi because yahya is #damaged and is Weird about saying things like 'i love u' and verbalizing affection. but when its not in english its fine! shiloh thinks it is so endearing...yahya doesnt speak any arabic but shiloh speaks a little. so to shiloh its a special thing between them and it means more to him than if yahya ever finally got around to spitting out an i love you. too bad yahya doesnt say it very often.....dripfeeding shiloh his affection lmfao
shiloh will use whatever hes feeling at the time. whatever he thinks will embarrass yahya the most loool. he loves getting a reaction out of him and has also taken on a responsibility of sorts to be the one reaffirming that they are Together. and so long as yahya doesnt act like shilohs wrong to be saying so then he knows theyre all good. shiloh is a little insecure and would def prefer it if yahya were more forthcoming but he cant rly change him so he just deals with it.

a shitload of figure drawing and doing direct redraws/studies of porn screenshots. for the figure drawing, doing as much variety as i could was very helpful. ie, doing a class on top of sitting somewhere and drawing ppl around u on top of independent studies, both nude and clothed subjects. ive done a lot of self led studies of people interacting with each other, like, ill google 'cuddling on couch' or 'couples dancing' and collect any interesting pics, then draw em all. it is SO helpful, you learn a lot about drawing bodies in relation to each other and making action believable. making a point to draw bent limbs and foreshortened body parts, basically any pose more complicated than just standing, is also a good thing to focus on. 🫵 do NOT skip drawing that arm thats at a weird hard angle. draw it draw it NOW u will never learn if u dont do it now! you will learn the intricacies of the human body quicker this way. and, in my figure studies i tend to exaggerate the subtleties of the curves of a body. i find that this helps with drawing convincing form, and also trains one's eye.

as for the porn redraws, it is basically the holy grail of finding references that have it all babey. two bodies doing an action and interacting/touching. lots of body parts overlapping and squeezed together and at odd angles and foreshortened and partially obscured. u will learn how to do all of these things. AND ALSO, porn is THE best place to get references for intense, dynamic camera angles. u can film porn on a phone held in almost any spot. on top of learning the body, u are learning perspective. the only problem is that u have to skim through tons of shit ass low quality videos to find the one shot thats worth it lol.

truly this way of studying is not unique lol. but i really like doing studies and have kept up with it. figure drawing is rly fulfilling cus its low stress, doing it at all is a success.

nah i recently upgraded to a big ol desktop computer. and regardless of that ive always used a screen tablet, i used to use my laptop with a cintiq 13hd that i had for like...almost 10 yrs lol i got my moneys worth out of that thing. but i now use an xp pen artist pro 16 (gen 2) and it works so well for a fraction of a cintiqs price, fuck everything wacom has ever made loool.

if ur asking bc ur looking to decide on what to use yourself, a laptop can work great! i used one for so long. my laptop was not powerful enough to handle files at the size i need to work with (they are abnormally huge so u probs dont need to worry) and was slowing down with age so it was no longer a good fit.

ive been thinking about this one since u sent it lol...i think im gonna just go with not giving yahya a particular job, bc the story ive been stuck figuring that out for i realized its probably for the best if hes unemployed and antisocial. it fits better with his character arc. but through the power of imagination we can think of him doing any job...like barbie...

i think its more likely that he'd dislike being a barista/bartender/waiter and just do it to survive...but hed have some regulars who show up and try to woo him. now thats a pretty juicy idea...is he feeling pathetic enough to say yes to the guy who shows up every day and loudly flirts with him the entire time hes making his drink? the guy who comes in on his lunch break every day yahya works and writes his phone number in the tip section on the receipt? if he fucks him will he finally get all those tips that he's owed? sorry to steer ur cute thought in a different direction lol im just a lot more interested in 'what is going on to make yahya want to say yes to a customer?' and most if not all customers who flirt like that are creeps, so it must be that he is working a terrible job that makes him feel desperate.

i was 13 yrs old when cascade hit the towers...i remember exactly where i was...

this question was sent with suspicious timing because literally an hour ago i sent some friends a few photos of my gamzee cosplay from when i was 13...at my local library's anime club halloween party....i was rly into homestuck when i was in middle school lmfao, during the peak? of its popularity. i was in the depths of the shipping part of the community.....then dmmd struck and it was over. why would i gaf about a comic that kept going on year long hiatuses when YAOIIIIII was there for me? i never bothered reading homestuck's ending lol (and i have no desire to learn about it, dont tell me, i will plug my ears and go lalala)

i watch a lot of porn lol and screenshot things i think are hot or enjoy for any reason. i usually take screenshots of angles i find interesting, cus amateur porno is very good at creative placement of the camera, or ill screenshot a nice clear shot of a hand gripping a body or a nice cock or a new pose etc. then do studies of these screenshots, ill do sketch pages based on em sometimes, or reference them when drawing. i dont usually do a 1-1 copy of a screenshot for an illustration unless i get rly lucky and find something thats like perfect.

for refs of trans men in particular, theres a bunch of trans dudes out there posting rly nice nudes and itll take u all of 2 seconds to find them on twitter. u can treat those pics like theyre figure drawing refs. but use common sense and dont be rude to anyone okay? theres also a limited amount of trans guy vids on popular porn sites but it is slim pickings so i wouldnt rly recommend limiting urself to only looking at trans porn for refs. u can easily look at cishet or cis gay porn and just use your own knowledge of the human body to make art that is accurate to your character.

other general advice is to do a lot of figure drawing so u dont have to rely on references so much and use CSP's (or any other program's) 3d models for pose references.