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hi, newbie artist here! I love your shinjiro and akihiko art so much, the intensity and intimacy you portray for them is so stunning. do you have a go-to source for nsfw art references/poses? I always struggle to find good ones for practice..
hey you! thank you so much 😭🖤 oh i'm really sorry but i don't?? actually i found real porn (vid) and photos not to plastic/appealing/interesting and probably just stiff to use as references for the whole picture. whenever i do so, my characters looks like a 2 bamboo sticks. i can use them as an idea sure, but this is such a rare thing so i don't have any go-to accounts/publics to recommend or whatever. i remember i used random tumblr/twitter gifs as an inspo tho🥲
the concept in general can be fucked up for a new artist, but
what i do is i use my imagination instead lmao. here's a scene "the guy is taking off his closes"> how he is doing it? what his face looks like, what he is wearing, maybe he has only socks, garters idk and no pants and he taking his shirt off. what will capture me if i see this picture in my tl? hand placement, what is he holding etc etc etc > only then i go to pinterest/google/making my own photos (sad im not a skinny sexy guy with long neck and fingers eh)/whatever to find references for each thing seperately. if i'm not sure that this pose can work in general, then i google something similar just to see how real body works, like "the guy is taking out his t-shirt", "hand side view", "socks" (lol yes sometimes i can't figure it out) etc. this is not the 100% proper method for posing i just think that i improved a little in my last pieces when i dropped using real ppls photos
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