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Otomate Hakuouki Fall Chibis ~ Transparent Renders by impracticaldemon
Hijikata Toshizo, Okita Souji, Saitou (Saito) Hajime [1 of 2] Free to use as icons or for edits. © Otomate / IF / DF Credit appreciated but not necessary (please like and reblog).
Note: It’s taking longer than usual because of the watermark. The original is there for comparison.
Hakuouki Guys & Puppies ~ Summer 2017
~ Looking for better copies!
🌸 Hakuōki Sekkaroku (2011) ~ Original DVD covers 🌸
Organizing my collection of official images and thought I’d share this set!
Hijikata Toshizo ~ Okita Souji ~ Saitou Hajime ~ Toudou Heisuke ~ Harada Sanosuke ~ Kazama Chikage
Hakuouki SSL ~ Shinsengumi in Suits Harada Sanosuke, Toudou Heisuke, Okita Souji, Hijikata Toshizo, Kazama Chikage, Saitou Hajime
This post now has *transparent sprites* (original post corrected)
© IF/DF © Cybird (background art)
Hakuouki SSL Chibis ~ Transparent Sprites
My edits: please like / reblog to use; credit is great by not necessary
For @shenanigumi (wiki)
Bonus sprite: Kondo-san! (I have Kaoru too…)
Hakuouki Sengoku Chibis ~ Transparent ~ Part 1 of 2
Sakamoto, Saitou (Date), Iba, Hijikata (Oda), Okita (Tokugawa), Souma
Official art belongs to Otomate/IF/DF. My edits.
Please like & reblog to use! Enjoy. 😊
Hakuouki Kimono Chibis ~ Blooming out of Season!
transparent edits by impracticaldemon © Otomate / IF / DF
Just arrived… they look great ♥♥♥
Hakuouki ~ DVD Cover Art
Okita Souji, Hijikata & Kazama Harada & Nagakura, Harada Sanosuke Saitou Hajime, Saitou & Okita Heisuke & Sannan, Toudou Heisuke Hijikata Toshizo, Chizuru & Hijikata
Hakuouki Chibis ~ Sweets Paradise Renders by impracticaldemon
They’re a little wild, but they’re cute! Please feel free to like, reblog and use. ♥
Hakuouki Movie 2 ~ Official Art
Toudou Heisuke | Okita Souji Harada Sanosuke | Kazama Chikage
missing: Hijikata Toshizo | Saitou Hajime
Otomate Hakuouki Fall Chibis ~ Transparent Renders by impracticaldemon
Hijikata Toshizo, Okita Souji, Saitou (Saito) Hajime [1 of 2] Free to use as icons or for edits. © Otomate / IF / DF Credit appreciated but not necessary (please like and reblog).
Note: It’s taking longer than usual because of the watermark. The original is there for comparison.
💕💖 I LOVE MY F/O TEMPLATES 💖💕
made some templates inspired by the "i love my gf/bf" ones where you put a picture into the heart but i made them selfship specific ^w^ you can use and edit this template however you want including for shirts etc, but it's only for personal use. don't use this template for commercial purposes. if you use or save any then a reblog and/or like are very appreciated, but no credit is needed if you post it anywhere ^w^
version without the title under the cut in case you want to add your own. font used is cooper black
Hello! I was wondering if I could ask you a question about something I noticed in post 136427994491 (and in tradition Chinese photography in general). I've noticed that there are sometimes a red marking on a women's forehead. Do these markings mean anything? I'm particularly curious about the one that looks like a flower and the ones that are a dot
Hi, of course I’m happy to answer your question!
The forehead markings are called “huadian/花鈿", and they are a purely ornamental type of accessory that was most popular during the Tang Dynasty. Huadian came in a variety of colors (red, green, yellow - but mostly red), shapes (flowers/petals, animals - birds/fish, etc.), and materials (paint, paper, gold, pearls, petals, fish bones, seashells, feathers, etc.). Nowadays it is usually painted on/a temporary tattoo. Fouryearsofshades has a write-up on huadian here. Below - historical huadian:
Huadian can be worn on the cheeks, as seen in the two left pictures in the 2nd row above - these are called mianye/面靥 or xiaoye/笑靥. They usually took the form of a dimple about one centimeter from each side of the lips, and came in a variety of shapes, including coins, peaches, birds, and flowers.
There is a legend about the origin of huadian, recounted by Hua Mei in the book Chinese Clothing (pdf):
“The Huadian or forehead decoration was said to have originated in the South Dynasty, when the Shouyang Princess was taking a walk in the palace in early spring and a light breeze brought a plum blossom onto her forehead. The plum blossom for some reason could not be washed off or removed in any way. Fortunately, it looked beautiful on her, and all of a sudden became all the rage among the girls of the commoners. It is therefore called the “Shouyang makeup” or the “plum blossom makeup.” This makeup was popular among the women for a long time in the Tang and Song Dynasties.”
The flower/petal shapes typically represent the plum blossom. I’m not sure if the dot represents anything significant, besides being a common shape.
Below - actresses wearing huadian and mianye in film/tv:
Hope this helps! :)
Edit: See here for post identifying the the actresses/films/tv series in the compilation above.
Huadian (花钿) originated as a form of hair ornament, derivative of the ancient huasheng (花胜). They were plate shaped ornaments that decorated a noblewoman’s crown. Their number, along with the number of clusters of flower ornaments, decided the wearer’s rank. Later in the Tang dynasty, dianchai (钿钗), the Dian Pin, was used to refer to double pronged hairpins with a rounded flower-shaped top. These were worn as part of a woman’s wedding gown. Confusing enough, after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, dianhua (钿花) referred to a woman’s forehead marking, while huasheng took on the meaning of thin flower ornaments made of paper or gauze or metal foil and stuck to a woman’s hair at the temples. To distinguish between the ornaments, the forehead flower was also called huazi (花子), or “little flower”. It was combined with e-huang (额黄), a cosmetic trend where the forehead was painted yellow in a form of primitive contouring, to form huahuang (花黄), flower and yellow pigment.
A particularly patient and creative woman could paint on her own huadian, but most women spared themselves the time and effort by using pre-cut huadian stickers, these stickers could be made of gauze, gold and silver foil, paper, feathers, mica sheets, and, for the high maintenance court ladies, compressed pigment made from camellia seed oil. For a while in the Song Dynasty, they were even made from fish bones! Called “marine allure” (鱼媚子), the smell of these fishy charms became the bane of many a gentleman’s love life.
As one of the most beautiful trends to emerge from ancient China, huadian has a multitude of associated origin stories. The earliest story, from the Jin Dynasty, tells of how, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun He, a prince of the Wu kingdom, accidentally smashed his crystal ruyi scepter over his wife’s head during a drunken dance. Though he quickly cleaned and dressed her wound with an ointment of powdered otter bones, jade, and amber, the doctors had mixed in too much amber, and as a result, when the lady’s wound healed, she was left with a red spot on her forehead. This gave her a special, elegant charm, and soon other women painted spots on their foreheads to try and emulate her. Fittingly, around the same time, across the Yangtze, Xue Yelai (薛夜来), a consort of the Wei Emperor Cao Pi (of the Luo goddess fame, currently a playable character in Dynasty Warriors) crashed her head through a glass screen when attending upon the Emperor in his study. It was late at night and the poor girl had never seen glass before, being rather new to the palace. Fortunately, no lasting damage was done besides two long gashes besides her temples. They healed into two red crescents that Cao Pi praised as resembling the rising sun peeking over the horizon. Other women in the Wei Harem painted red crescents resembling Xue Yelai’s scars on their faces, hoping to attract the Emperor. These two injury-inspired cosmetic tricks became huadian and xiehong (斜红). Later, during the Five Dynasties, legends claimed that the First Emperor once had a vision of the Queen of the Gods, and to show his faith, ordered his court ladies to decorate their faces in the same way as the goddess. During the Song Dynasty, the author Gao Cheng records that during the Song Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a plum blossom left a mark on the beautiful Princess Shouyang’s (寿阳公主) forehead. He also tells another story, where one of Wu Zetian’s chief advisers, Shangguan Wan-Er (上官婉儿), angered the Empress and was punished by having a red dot tattooed on her forehead. To hide this scarlet letter, she painted flower patterns over it. Another variation of the same legend claims she clipped part of her hair to hide her forehead and thus invented bangs. Known for both her wit and her charm, this female Prime Minister was certainly a trendsetter.
Netflix Template
I’ve seen some people have made their own Netflix templates [my inspo] and I recently made one myself that matched the current Netflix interface on desktop so I decided to share!
This includes two PSD files.
All text is editable including the info under the play button
The font used is Arial.
Note:
The first template is based off of the interface for a movie, but it can be altered to fit a TV show as well. Just change the “1h 50m” to something like “3 Seasons” and change the “More Like This” layer to “Episodes” (you’ll see it when you look through the file ;)
I used the frame tool for the episode thumbnails. To use it, just drag the photo into the X frame and resize to your liking.
Rules:
Reblog/like if you use or plan on using
Don’t redistribute the template as your own
A credit is appreciated. Tag me so I can see your work!
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I’m going to draw a group portrait, and I haven’t decided on everyone’s positions yet.