Fanning The Flames

Rarely updated fanart sideblog. Don’t repost my work without explicit permission. Don’t feed my work into AI, I hate it almost as much as I love Jiang Cheng.

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Hello all! As always, feel free to ask me to draw something…if it strikes my fancy I’ll do it…no guarantees as this is a strictly for fun fanart blog which means I might not do it and even if I do, it happens when it happens!

Update on my current hyperfixations that have inspired me to draw: 1) CQL 2) SVSSS. We’ll see if my play through of Tears of the Kingdom will revive my dormant LoZ fanaticism. Also I’ve been really into Mob Pyscho 100 but hard to say if I’ll be inspired by it and how frequently.

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Always delighted to see your artwork! I also love the choices of historical pieces you use as reference. Like Jin Ling as Cleopatra? Truly inspired! 14/10

Thank you! The Cleopatra painting was sitting way in the back of my head for a while, and just recently I think I saw JW Waterhouse come up and knew who to put in it! Just love the moody paintings and moody faves!

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Rulan, after JW Waterhouse’s Cleopatra.

I decided that this would be titled “Rulan” rather than “Jin Ling”, with the thought that the setting of the painting, somewhere in Koi Tower, is one where people are more likely to call him Jin Rulan. I also considered titling it “(New) Sect Leader Jin” but I thought that would be confusing, and “Rulan” better parallels the original painting title.

Initial sketch is here!

Do you know how hard it is to find a reference for Fairy? I liked the fluffy slightly dopey (for a husky) looking version in the live action drama, only turned up two blurry dog images in my searches (everything else was a winged humanoid fairy), so went looking on Pexel for “red husky” to try and get some better reference so she didn’t look too whack. Here are a few!

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WIP grumpy Jin Ling! I have been meaning to do a piece based on JW Waterhouse’s Cleopatra. Originally it was going to be Jiang Cheng but with the gold and the dog statue there was no way the painting would be anyone but Jin Ling.

Might take longer than usual for me to finish, stayed tuned!

Edit: I added a link to the inspiration!

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“Are you sure you’re my shixiong?” Really a rhetorical question, but the man was claiming to be the Yiling Laozu so…

Based off the response to the sketch, we all seem to like Jiang Cheng terrorizing knock off Wei Wuxian, who may or may not be into it.

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Good eyes, because there is a reason for that! This pose was based off a Wonder Woman themed life drawing session (I think hosted by Silhouette and Shadow on zoom) and the costume the model wore actually did feature over-knee nine inch boots! (Links might be NSFW) Something like this:

The in-universe explanation is the Jiang sect disciples had an inspired idea to bolster the sect’s anti-demonic cultivation reputation and that was through images and posters with Sandu Shengshou as the face of the campaign.

The real motivation was of course to get paintings of sect leader. They had to use a dummy because fights were breaking out over who got to be kneeled on.

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Jin Ling’s Yiyi, Sect leader Jiang! Any last words?

There was supposed to be a short segment where we get WWX thinking Madame Yu dropped down to smite him from the dead, but then realizing she is actually Young Master Jiang fully embracing her trans identity. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it working right, so just this one quick panel from the segment, and none of that context very obvious.

This was going to be the opening panel which I also kind of liked.

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Time for a game!

Guess which of my posts recently got flagged by the updated content moderator?

No cheating!

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If you guessed Madame Jiang and Her Son, you would be correct! STILL under content review!

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An algo wouldn’t do it but a human moderator might be thinking I made Jiang Cheng trans? Maybe that needs to be my next post to test this theory?

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Time for a game!

Guess which of my posts recently got flagged by the updated content moderator?

No cheating!

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If you guessed Madame Jiang and Her Son, you would be correct! STILL under content review!

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Time for a game!

Guess which of my posts recently got flagged by the updated content moderator?

No cheating!

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Linktober 2025: Merchant

Does Peatrice count? I like her aloof air when Link first interacts with her.

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Now that Linktober is over I have to say I had a lot of fun participating this year for as long as I was able! Also shout out to my most popular contribution, Peatrice my beloved, honestly not the one I expected to take off or even the piece I liked the most visually, but I am delighted it brought so much joy to you all!

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Linktober 2025: Zelda

It has been a while! I have been busy but felt bad quitting before getting to Zelda when I did Link so wanted to add a modern Echoes of Wisdom Zelda. She’s still proper in the game but I feel she would be a more playful incarnation.

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Linktober 2025: Music/Instrument

Phonogram (man) and the Song of Storms! One of the iconic songs in Orcarina of Time and a memorable NPC!

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Linktober 2025: Broken

Temple of Time in Breath of the Wild. I think when we first really get an understanding of how ruined old Hyrule is.

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Linktober 2035: Link

With infinite time maybe I would do a whole portrait but decided to go with a simplified rendering of Link pulling the master sword as a child…I think this would be Oot Link or Botw Link then.

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Linktober 2025: Dance

I like to think Tourma, the mango researcher, taught Zelda some expert twirling before giving her the Golden Fan!

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Linktober 2025: Korok

I couldn’t decide who was my favorite Korok so you get two! They would love to meet each other!

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Linktober 2025: Merchant

Does Peatrice count? I like her aloof air when Link first interacts with her.