My favorite interpretation of Sakamoto Ryouma is in Peacemaker Kurogane, hands down.

First time he shows up, he’s poorly singing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of his lungs, in English.

Love this! Really love the thickness variance between the inner and outer lines and the sharp angles of her hips and bent elbows. Overall the pose is really well done with how it’s stylized and interpreted. Making me itch to draw to try out some of the stuff myself hahaha!

Wonderful start! Have my reading list for the new year hahaha!

Oh this is a cool feature/website :O

Thanks for sharing the link. I might check it out for some more private note taking but still wanting people’s to access it if they wish.

(Also your podcast is on my list! Just hadn’t a moment to go through it. I also saw your thesis shared, so adding that too!)

working my way through the English translation Shiba Ryotaro’s books series). I’d like to expand my scholarship of the period in general and all its players, and maybe add some more academically oriented Sakamoto books to the list as well.

This is quite a post to ask this question under, but do you have a list of recommendations of Bakumatsu books in English?

My particular interest is Sakamoto Ryouma (I’ve read through Jansen’s “SR and the Meiji Restoration,” Hillsborough’s “Renissance Samurai” and+

Digital art felt the most accessible and versatile, for me. You could do a lot in a single drawing program. I also wanted to animate quite a bit so I gravitated more to it because of YouTube animations.

I recommend studying movie frames! Composition, color, lighting, backgrounds, storytelling all neatly rolled into one

This one generates a random frame for movies. Might be a fun drawing challenge.

www.everysingleframe.com

There was also a solid two years where I put out an full illustration every week or so.

Being obsessed with a character 👍

But in all honesty, I had years of experience with photography and other visual arts, so once I got over the hump of spitting out bad drawings, I felt that knowledge helped with just being able to put together an illustration.