i rarely use references for like 1:1 poses in my art bc i always manage to make it look stiff and uninteresting 😭😭 i usually use refs when i study or warm up and just construct poses that i think would look good and hopefully catch the eye by drawing a big simple shape first (i mean literally a blob of color, very vague, this is a step at which you don’t need any detail), then i either skip to just sketching or i add another layer under the sketch that comes later, where i make a rough pass of the shapes and put some landmarks in so it’s easier to do the sketch on top and i don’t have as much clean up in the sketch phase!! i use refs sometimes but it’s usually just partial refs aka a pic of a specific body part in a somewhat similar position and at a similar angle to what i’m looking for, it doesn’t have to be the exact same thing bc the main form is very similar and you can just bullshit a little tbh lmao i use refs for cock too sometimes i hate drawing dicks so much 😭 what i started doing lately is whenever i’m unsure whether my landmarks and like the layout of the pose is how it would look irl i sometimes set up a model in csp into a similar pose and angle and if i see that it’s doable then i just proceed as i would or i make adjustments and move on, this helps keep the overly critical side of my brain in check bc im always like ‘.. would this even work’ and if i get substantial evidence that it would, in fact, work like this, then i’m reassured and more motivated to finish the drawing actually!! so this is a neat little hack - if you’re unsure of something pose a model based on what you have and see if it looks alright!! but i wouldn’t recommend relying on models too much bc they’re very bad at showing how the body bends and twists since the models usually don’t have stretchable muscles!! i think daz studio has the dynamics to stretch the muscles to some extent so you can always download it (it’s free!!) and pose the model they have in there

OH PLEASEEEEE i love sasuoro…. sasuke would want to bend and break them and shove them around and see them struggle and ruin them and carve a place for himself inside their body and pull at their insides and choke them out and never let them leave and and and .. but nothing is satisfying, nothing sasuke does to orochimaru comes close to the levels of hatred and anger that have pooled inside him throughout all these years .. and it doesn’t help that no matter what he does, there’s always a smirk on oro’s face, even the faintest one, but it’s always there, taunting and admiring their work and what has come of sasuke .. there are words sure, how it’s only fair, how it needs to be done, a punishment needs to be dealt but there’s always that damned smirk .. and sasuke, so badly, wants to stop this, wants to leave, bc this isn’t going anywhere unless he gets to kill them (cough or fuck them to death cough) but he can’t, he can’t leave, the urge to deal out the pain with the pleasure stronger than his common sense .. 🤭

i was pretty meh about them for a long time but they’ve grown on me a lot 😭💗💗 and everyone makes such cute and pretty art of them and i’m like !!!!!!!! also that scene at the end of the war where they embrace each other they looked sO GOOD together <3 idk i just love to think that their appreciation of one another grew with time and they just kinda naturally fell together, since they had a rough start and i feel like the whole team needed a lot of time to grow close-knit, and with naruto and sasuke having their own thing i’d imagine maybe sakura and kakashi spent quite a bit of time together, even like. watching naruto and sasuke spar and slowly growing more and more comfortable with each other, and i think kakashi might’ve fallen first actually ☝️ simply bc sakura had a lot of stuff going on and barely any time and i mean like all that talking about having a crush on sasuke but she still barely even acted on it in the early years bc she had school and training and i like to think she was very invested in that!! and maybe kakashi just grew to admire her determination and drive, and with how much she reminds him of rin too.. 🤭 IDK IM RAMBLING kakashi is such a simp for her i just know it she leads him by the dick and he’ll let her do anything to him 💗💗 also old tired man kakashi with fiery as ever sakura just does things to my brain ig