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Do you remember this
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“Taiwan’s photoshopping really is something else…”
((She looks so regal! Process sketches will be up on my art account, @ravioliguacamole
Unfortunately, I probably won’t be able to answer more emoji asks and hopefully will move onto normal asks in my inbox!))
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旧图
Abandoned by Chinese websites
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Romano and his beloved pigeons ❤️🧡💛
Transparent version tee hee
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my piece for the @hws-anthology! it's the gang enjoying some spicy street hotpot on a humid summer's evening 🍲
thanks to the mods for their enduring patience, and for pulling this off. i'm happy to have participated in something like this with so many friends and creators i admire 🧡
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memories - funny how things change
day 1 for @historical-hetalia-week - 1700 B.C. - present day
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doodling some long overdue East Asians <3
The history of the region is really quite fascinating, and despite the extremely complicated politics and tensions today, it’s interesting to note how much Chinese culture influenced the entirety of East Asia. This was in large part because ancient China existed as an empire for centuries, which treated neighbouring countries as vassal states that had to pay tribute to the Chinese emperor. The similarities between Chinese, Korean and Japanese culture like Confucianism, Buddhism, clothing styles and writing are due to ancient Chinese influence that melded with local Japanese and Korean culture. Classical Chinese was widely used for formal writing, kind of the way Latin was used across Europe.
Of course, as centuries passed, Korea and Japan developed distinct writing systems and increasingly asserted themselves as distinct from China culturally. A similar thing happened more recently for Hong Kong and Taiwan, which are majority Han Chinese- but often see themselves as distinct from mainland China due to more recent politics and history, resulting in the extremely convoluted relationship you see in the news today.
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This image has been in my head for a long time, but only recently garnered enough travel feels motivation to draw it out until now. Itinerary set, and here are a selection of masters that I will be paying homage to.
From the top clockwise Rembrandt, Escher, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Bruegel, Rubens, Horta, Magritte.
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Anonymous asked:
are there certain visual themes or imagery you yourself particularly associate with yao as an artist or writer? i'm trying to visualize the nations better...
hmmm, interesting question. i like incorporating nature imagery into the hetalias, especially old nations like yao. there's something mythical and compelling about the sense of age and vastness that evokes. these are some (non-exhaustive) thoughts i've had:
a. i always associate yao with rivers and water; the Yellow River in particular, which is often seen as the "cradle" of Chinese civilisation (but of course, there's also the Yangtze, and the Pearl River too). rivers are life-giving but also untameable, powerful and dangerous—the Yellow River's fertile silt birthed agriculture and civilisation, but its destructive floods have claimed uncounted lives over the millennia of Chinese history. and...that's kind of how yao is, as a nation and an empire, towards others of their kind. the source of cultural and artistic innovations, but also death. water can be fluid, life-giving and nurturing, but also as treacherous as a torrential flood sweeping everything away, no?
like the Yellow River's relationship with humanity, yao's impact on world history feels to me like this duality of life and death; peace and warfare; mentor, empire, conqueror... it's like, yao's been a teacher to many others but...i don't think their predominant image of him is as a warm and nurturing figure. maybe more so with his own people, but less so with other nations. being the old warlord he is, he'd say certain things very matter-of-factly (especially to yong-soo and kiku), about how power is the only language their kind universally understands, or about history being written by the victors (when we consider how the only surviving written sources about certain periods of asian history are only chinese ones...), inasmuch he'd talk about the importance of confucian virtue, integrity and humility on other occasions.
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Nyo!pruhun for the straights
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the romanian boiz
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commissioned illustrations for @arewehumans‘s fanfiction What do we want? thank you for commissioning me, loved working on these!