Drama and Romance in the Wild West! Episode 5 of my podcast about the Queerness of RedDeadRedemption2 is up! Featuring conversations with @charlybird @petitcroc Selene Volturo and @cowboah-baby about their RDR2 Ship artwork.
uhm???! brown happens to be my favorite color?? and i get to see it whenever we lock eyes?? it's deep and warm and comforting??! your eyes turn into melted chocolate when hit by sunlight??! i'm captivated every time you look at me??!
Arthur is a siren - the kind that sailors sing songs about and wish to never encounter. He's hungry for flesh and lures in a sailor that he's not able to devour, being too entranced by the handsome stranger.
Charles lives through the horrors as a sea monster seems to have set its eyes on him. He's haunted by flashes of blue and sharp claws, unable not to think about the night he fell overboard.
This is the ideal male image. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
For the poses and getting their body shapes down, I did use a couple reference images from @kaphzzz though I don't remember which ones. Check them out anyway because I think their screenshots are really neat!