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b4kuch1n · 4 years ago

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Seeing all the viet clothes and viet *gestures wildly* stuff is sending my soul into the sun. As a dumb viet kid whose only knowledge about her own culture is the miniscule tidbits i can glean from my parents and the chaos during tet, oh god, looking at the beautiful clothing is starting to make me wanna start doing more research and practice drawing more that just the basic blue ao dai. Your artwork? *chefs kiss* Transcendent.

I’m very very happy to hear!! genuinely when I got back into drawing cổ phục and just fusing viet influence into fantasy stuff I realized how little materials available there are out there for independent artists, especially diaspora artists who can’t read vietnamese, to reference and work with. it’s getting better, there are a few english blogs cataloguing and translating materials now, like @vietphuc, but it’s still slow going. and I kinda want to do my share for it too, but I’m not a good translator and am really disorganized in general, so I try to. get as much out there as I can. with my art instead. if someone gets into việt phục/cách tân/cổ phục stuff because my art sparked an interest, that’s more than what I can ever ask for and I’m incredibly honored and humbled by it!

other than the blog I tagged above, I would also recommend @/haPusheen on Twitter if you use Twitter. not only does she draw incredible fantasy stuff with heavy viet influence, she also retweets a lot of art in similar vein. thank you for the very kind ask, and have fun drawing!

#ask #details #that me setup/drawing-related post tag #also just saying this right off the bat: if someone is shitty to you abt the specifics of your designs bc it's not traditional enough or wh #eat them. straight up tear their throat out.#the việt phục scene can be rough and some folks are very gatekeepy about it #fuck those people #if you ever feel like you're not viet enough to do viet stuff in your art take my words from a mainland viet person:#you. are. viet. enough.#it is genuinely a crime that diasporas don't have the access to the culture of their parents or their family #especially because it is an alive culture that is evolving and growing #and you should have the option to participate #there's also a bullet point that vietnam is no a monolith #and the common việt phục stuff is heavy on kinh culture in particular #which is lacking but it's also changing #we are many! and we are very very colorful #if you can definitely look into more than just traditional kinh fashions! look into viet dao fashion!#thái fashions! hoa fashions!#it goes a Long way to demystify the viet identity and it clues you in on a Lot of context #even I as someone who was born in vietnam and has spent most of my life here just got to learn these things relatively recently #we are all on the journey together!#hope you have fun with it and keep it with you!!#Anonymous

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