#desert dust

[midnight-blue-blog]

The desert is not silent; it resonates with sound. —Every drumbeat is like a heartbeat.🎵🎻 ✨♥️

[thekingsavatar-fan]

Happy Chinese New Year! (Spring Festival)

The year 2024, according to the Chinese horoscope, will be the year of the Green Wood Dragon.

[greenhorn-art]

陈酒味醇，老友情深。

(“Old friends and old wine are best”)

On another The King’s Avatar kick. This time with art!

It’s rough, but I’m trying to teach myself to stop spending so much time on tiny details that don’t matter.

Scribbled down the poses, sketched out the characters, went ham with the colourfill selection tool, brushed in a bit of extra details, and filled in/cleaned up major eyesores. Then fiddled with colour overlays, threw it at PS Express for the template and made a fake Instagram post.

“Old friends and old wine are best” is from the Chinese proverb 橙酒味醇，老友情深 (chénjiǔ wèi chún, lǎoyǒu qíng shēn) which I found online. [https://www.digmandarin.com/chinese-proverbs-about-friendship.html]

(Bonus: the whole image because the faux Instagram post cropped out the feet. those are like the best feet I’ve ever drawn lol)

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I love how shippable a character Ye Xiu is and the variety of ships there are (and all the gen stuff!), but HanYe is definitely my favourite by far!

Lately I’ve been ploughing through ao3’s The King’s Avatar fics like a hungry chickadee at a birdfeeder; I go to ao3, open a fic, read it, and come back for more. Over and over again. I’ve devoured most of the HanYe fics available in English (sidenote: why are so many abandoned?! 😭😭), and gone back for a second (or third) read. At this point I’ve resorted to parsing out my browser’s Google Translated versions of Chinese fics. (Dear god it’s painful and difficult to read! Good motivation for my Chinese lessons though...)

Drawn Jan 11, 2023. Posted Jan 12, 2023.

[urlasage]

[shirou-oh-sakura]

The art I did for TKA Fanzine~ Thank you everyone who bought the artbook, digital or physical! \^w^/

[demongirlbabe]

[felixbrattikayla]

Anatomy practice to piece.

...I’m kinda curious what it says about me that my comfort character to draw is a perpetual angry boi lmao

[pandabakajanai-blog]

Get mini clear card from print shop /_\