Buggy The Clown - Blog Posts

Can't get them all outta my head!!!!!!

Hey I’m Buggy from One Piece and you’re watching Disney Channel!

Referenced @/huyandere for Buggy

shuggy silliness + their honeymoon at south/north poles

shuggy silliness collection

pocket sized buggy (warning he bites)

Some of my favorite One Piece characters in my style!

Love these guys

happy bday dude

Kinda speedrunned this thingy and my hand now hurts, but worth it in my eyes ✌️

Second draw of October with buggy

October 4th: Clown

SpeedPaint:

So much for bein down bad for luffy, heres sum more doodles that my brain farted out today...

Buggy looks like a twink but that's ok

Once again saw pretty cosplay and had to draw :]

The original cosplayer

Am I feeding into the Buggy obsession on the internet rn?

Yes, yes I am

In modern au my man would work minimum wage

Twst x one piece crossover I fear I lost motivation for . Idia as buggy, grim as zoro and my yuu as luffy!

More zoro grim to come!!!

trying not to think about the fact shanks was probably abandoned because his father only needed one heir, and it was shamrock, so shanks wasn't worth raising. trying not to think about the impact this might have on shanks once he knows. trying not to think about how buggy has always felt sidelined, like roger's "second choice", an afterthought, while he saw shanks as the "favorite kid", always praised, always celebrated, oblivious to the fact shanks was once the second choice too. trying not to think about how, once again, shanks and buggy mirror each other perfectly, but it still didn't stop their relationship from shattering

months ago, while mindlessly scrolling through twitter, i came across an analysis of this particular panel from chapter 434 (i can’t remember who wrote the thread, i’m so sorry </3), and i really want to talk about it too.

(EDIT: original author of the thread is @goingbuggy!!! go check out their metas, they're amazing)

the thread was focusing on the way the speech bubble covers shanks's scar completely, and how it can be seen as a sign of vulnerability. oda is using shanks’s own words to hide his suffering, letting his physical scars be representative of his emotional ones, even though the event he’s talking about is completely unrelated to the way he got his scar.

in fact, we know shanks is not ashamed of the scar, since just a couple of pages after this one he mentions it directly as a way to start the conversation about blackbeard:

he doesn’t have a problem with the marking itself, it’s just used as a narrative device, a tool to highlight (in an extradiegetic way) his emotional wounds and the pain he always tries so hard to hide, in an effort to keep his usual composure.

the original author of the thread compared the panel from chapter 434 to another, way older one, from the very first chapter:

this takes place right after shanks loses his left arm to save luffy’s life. it’s obviously a very emotionally charged moment, which means the best thing to do would be showing a close-up of shanks’s reaction to everything that’s unfolding in front of him at that moment (luffy’s cries, or even his own reaction to his sacrifice). oda, however, chooses not to do that; instead, he hides half of shanks’s face, just like he did in chapter 434. the way the moment is portrayed tells the reader shanks is willing to hide his pain in an even deeper way than what he’s showing by smiling at luffy right after getting his arm chopped off.

it’s a great way to explain an important characteristic without stating it right away. it's a focal point of shanks's character: it's his way of showing luffy he cares about him and would much rather hide his suffering than pass it onto him, but it's also oda's way of conveying that shanks is much more vulnerable than what he allows himself to show.

having said that, the reason oda chose to bring back this framing in chapter 434 appears obvious: shanks misses buggy.

it’s plain to see, especially if we look at the whole page.

shanks tries so hard to act collected when talking about buggy, but it’s obvious that he’s hurting. his wording makes it clear he’s trying to detach from him (“that’s the end of it” + “rumors have it”); he acts like buggy doesn’t exist in his thoughts anymore, when it’s obvious he still does. he feels remorse, he regrets letting buggy go. he’s scared he might have been in the wrong. he knows he hurt buggy, but he desperately wishes he didn’t.

all of this weighs on him in a way he isn’t used to, so he locks these feelings up, thinking of them only in relation to something that happened in the past, and as so, stays in the past. he smiles while talking about him and buggy, but it’s a remorseful smile. he cuts the conversation short even though he vividly remembers what happened between them, and as he does so, his words hide the scar. he desperately tries to patch things up in his mind by exclusively clinging onto the good memories they share, but the remorse always creeps up on him. he always smiles when talking about buggy, even when he’s talking directly to him. but his smile always ends up looking sour.

this is exactly why i hate it when people say shanks doesn’t care about buggy. oda wouldn’t have given these panels so much depth if he didn’t want to show just how much shanks actually cares. even just the fact the panel we are focusing on directly mirrors a panel from the first chapter, one so important and impactful, should tell you everything you need to know.

buggy will always be shanks’s weakness. caring so much about someone when you’re a pirate of that caliber is difficult in itself, even more so when that someone is so far away from you now.

Impel Down sketches because this arc is one hell of a ride

I miss Usopp. I wonder how he’s doing

Here's some modern AU Shanks and Buggy too❤️💙

Shanks just got a new place and Buggy TOTALLY didn't try to sneak in and scope the place for his safety....Nope..

Lmao, I love them together😭

Clowns anyone? I know I am👀🤡

Srsly tho, I love Buggy 😂💙

Vague spoilers for One Piece ep 968

Shanks volunteered to stay behind with Buggy instead of go to the final island with Roger cause Buggy was sick? To take care of him but also because he knows Buggy really wanted to go and Shanks being able to see it and not him would break him a little. So he stays back and nurses him??

Mind you this is post Buggy eating his devil fruit and they seem hella close so I call bullshit on Buggy’s story for why he hates Shanks.

Some art and doodles from messing around on magma with my bestie!

Oh yeah,

☆ Transgenders your Trafalgar Law ☆

📘 Sketchbook art dump!! All one piece baby!!

Primary used fineliners and Crayola for the more finished peices 🖍

Some im more proud of than others

(I'm trying to get back into digital art, but i have been on a traditional roll for the past month)

Hey!!! Traditional art for once?! :O

Me and a friend switched sketchbooks, so I drew their favorite ship.

More updates!!! :)

The bottom half is as equally chaotic as the top.

Working hard, or hardly working? Still working, so here is a update. <3

Don't mind the rough sketches for everyone (except Perospero).

Updated version here!

Wanted to draw some of my favorites!!!

Also, I thought to keep my Perospero sketch because he looks so perturbed.

More doodles from the other night!!! <3

BTW, I'm open to any one piece drawing requests! :D

I can’t believe i almost forgot about this flashy mf’s birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGY!!! Hope this is flashy enough XD