#Asian culture

[ichverdurstehier]

[asian-folk-wardrobe]

[toyastales]

Carving of an octopus. Japan, 19th century.

[madeleineengland]

Remember the Opening Ceremony on the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A fitting 2,008-strong ensemble of drummers took to the stadium, each armed with an individual bronze Fou drum. The Fou drum is an ancient Chinese percussion instrument, once used in ritual music. As they pound their drums, the players chant in unison.

[buffetlicious]

You cannot celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) without mentioning Lanterns (灯笼). In the olden days, these lanterns were made with colourful cellophane, glass or plain papers and hand-painted by craftsmen. They come in the shapes of animal, flora or mystical beast like dragon and phoenix and are lit by candles. Modern day lanterns can include characters from movies or Japanese animations and are made with plastic. They are powered by LEDs and batteries which are more suitable for younger audience due to no open flame.

Lantern making image from here.

[yiska-h]

月が綺麗ですね ☽

[wgm-beautiful-world]

BUDDHIST MONKS

[imakatperson22]

Most unbelievable thing about this show is that Chimney, raised by native Korean parents and then semi adopted by more Asian parents (I think they’re Korean too but I can’t find anything on the wiki confirming), wears shoes in his house and acts confused when their nanny discourages him from doing it.

[moonlitmmarie]

"But the smoke clears when you're around

Won't you stay with me, my darling?"

(from Curses - The Crane Wives)

Some personal stuff under the cut.

Grieving.

Which I am currently doing, so here's a vent art (kind of). To be put in grief so suddenly is something I'd never wish upon anyone, but life is difficult and unpredictable like that. I can't even begin to fathom how Chichi felt when she became a widow all of a sudden, if expecting to lose a family member already hurt this much.

It does hit different when you used to look for references of family altars for that one Mother's Day sketch, and now you've already been around the thing yourself often enough to draw from experience 🥲

[the-cricket-chirps]

Unknown photographer (Japanese)

Performer in Bugaku-style Costume

1880s

[ichverdurstehier]

Save Korean women

[asian-folk-wardrobe]

[midautumngame]

The Real World & the Spirit World

[fleeting-sanity]

Saxan in Coral Island.

Happy New Year to you. My lazy son as NPC and LI. I think this took about a month to make. 70% of that time is taken by the wedding outfit alone. Commentary on each outfits and his personality backstory under Read More if you're interested :)

Your local veterinarian. He was a bratty and wild child, something his parents tried to coach him out of. Instead, he developed into a lazy and apathetic young man, and eventually his parents learned to accept the person he is. However, he sensed that he's the black sheep or "failure" compared to his successful big twin sisters, irregardless of how baseless it is. Cares for animals, not so much for humans. His character arc can go two ways depending on what you chose during the dialogues. His birthday is on 28th Spring.

He's my Star Wars OC actually. He's a Zakuulan Prince, so I incorporated that aspect into his merfolk form. If you don't see him around town, he might be underwater!

His spring outfit is based on the doodle I have of him from an ask lol. I kinda like the color cyan on him!

I forgot that Scott has a similar hibiscus shirt so I figured it was too late to modify it... Oh well.

Not much to say other than I kinda have a hard time deciding what he should wear for autumn.

He looks super snug. I really gotta learn how to draw coats to make them convicingly thick idk. He lowkey dislikes winter.

I kinda debated on if I should put body hair on him but I decided not to seeing almost every male NPC has them. I think. Yes, it's the ace flag colors.

If you marry him he'll appear in Aesan Gede, the South Sumatran (Palembang) traditional wedding attire. I can't really have his hair free because it'll get stuck on all the golden bits but I kinda am not feeling the bun either so back ponytail it is. Debated whether I should draw the Sundanese one (am half-Sundanese) because it's easier but South Sumatra has been under-represented in Indonesian media so my Srivijayan pride kicked in. Also tumblr keeps killing the transparency for some reason >;[

Does he look Prince-ly enough here? He's based on the barracuda fish. Considered making him a naga like the rest of the in-game merfolk royal family but I've actually drawn him as a merman before so I want to keep him as a... fish. blublubblub.

I'm currently playing his twin sisters and I'm having a hard time choosing the LIs for them helpppp

And no, sadly I'm not a backer on Kickstarter (source: golongan miskin) this is just art.

[t13shoots]