Taigen when he finds out Mizu is a woman

ONRYŌ

heres the raw illustration without color correction, and what i have left of the sketch

i drew this with a mouse!!! my new stylus nibs arrive on christmas (hopefully) so this was originally gonna be a sketch that i'd polish up but as usual i got distracted with rendering. this ended up being really fun!!!

Sometimes a family is the second son of the Shogun, his gatekeeping, gaslighting girlboss wife, her disgraced balding fiancé, his definitely-a-boy friend hellbent on revenge for being conceived and the bestest boy in the whole wide world

more blue eye samurai posting

i can't stress it enough how crazy the love triangle situation is. mizu and akemi have a slow motion romcom first glance at each other. mizu and taigen are enemies to lovers. mizu taunts akemi about taigen while wearing his scarf. mizu imagines taigen while seeing a threesome. mizu and akemi have sex scenes juxtaposed with each other. taigen and mizu's brawl is an obvious parallel to mizu and mikio. "this isn't over" "i know". both could happen. neither could happen. all could happen all at once. and i'm watching it all like this

i can not believe she did do it to both of them

the reveal that mizu is not only the ronin but also the bride is so well executed. the way she walks the line between man and woman, white and japanese, victor and victim... it's good fucking writing.

humble contribution

Two halves of one whole haircut

𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐨𝐥e.

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Direct reference to that one famous photo of Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald & Raul Esparza in “Twelfth Night”.

part one of a small series

year 2001

“Salim. Baghdad. Winter of 1983″

inspired by @keithsensei ‘s young salim design

another photo redraw idk what to say i hate captions

LEON HE CANT BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY