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hey these are some tips for some of the little details in drawing fat folks that some people might not know!

everyone has fat on their bodies so its a worthwhile skill to have, but most art tutorials leave it out. heres some other good tips from artists!!

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dinner time

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wu zetian are you free on friday 👉👈🥺

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Sooo I was rereading Heavenly Tyrant and came across the part were it mentioned the propaganda posters of Zetian "pregnant" and I was like ooo... I should draw one 👀.

Semi-inspired by posters from the Great Leap Forward.

Bonus:

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Whenever Zhuge Liang's rebellion came up in Heavenly Tyrant the only thing I could think of was how all his propaganda would just unironically be this 😭🙏💀

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g-g-goth Zetian 😳😳

Iron Widow College AU

Zetian: Poli-sci major, gender studies minor. Goth. Worked at Arby's as a teenager but now findoms as a side hustle. Coordinator in the campus' Women's Centre and fighting a war with a rogue TERF faction trying to ban trans people from accessing it.

Yizhi: Chemistry major, pre-med. In a shady elite frat. Shockingly, not one of Zetian's paypigs. Known Zetian since highschool but they didn't go to the same one. They just met in the Arby's parking lot when she was taking a smoke break during the short time she picked up smoking (she has since quit).

Shimin: Literature and philosophy double major, 4.33 GPA. Becomes Yizhi's sugar baby when even working two jobs can't keep him afloat but doesn't realize he's a sugar baby because he thinks it's totally normal to get paid thousands of dollars to tutor Yizhi for like 20 minutes per week.

Wan'er: History major. Friends with more profs than fellow students. Completely different demeanour online vs offline. You'd never guess she's a Reddit moderator (of r/ShitLiberalsSay).

Taiping: Economics major, in a shady elite sorority. Goes clubbing every night and barely shows up to class yet still manages to ace her exams.

Qin Zheng: Poli-sci major. Shows up to class in a leather jacket and Che Guevera shirt. Regularly embarrasses Zetian when they have to do projects together. Is the guy with the megaphone at every protest. Has a definitive list of best places to hook up on campus.

Qieluo: Never went to college as a student but got a job in administration anyway. Tired of dealing with Qin Zheng's shenanigans.

Helan: Legacy admission nepo baby. In Yizhi's chemistry class. Will join protests but draws the line at property damage/occupation. Got roasted on r/ShitLiberalsSay.

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I think the apples rotten right to the coreee from all the things passed down from all the apples coming beforeee *slams my head into a wall*

I told myself I was making one (1) Qin Zheng portrait. I woke up several hours later with 3 🤩

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Mini-comic for the uni au we cooked up in the Iron Widow server yesterday. Yizhi hates Qin Zheng's emperor loft bed, Qin Zheng hates Yizhi's cutsey pink loft bed, Zetian just wants a nap 😔

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Woah! Is that a pair of white tigers? 🐅

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I think the apples rotten right to the coreee from all the things passed down from all the apples coming beforeee *slams my head into a wall*

I told myself I was making one (1) Qin Zheng portrait. I woke up several hours later with 3 lol

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Pov: you are Qin Zheng getting woken up at the end of Iron Widow

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And we all clap and cheer and say "We love you Fatou"

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 10000 likes!

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My piece for the very first Minecraft Storymode fanzine!

I really loved working on this piece, as well as getting to collaborate with everyone who worked on this zine! I went a little bit experimental with the winter theme. Overall I really love how it turned out 🥰

Check out the zine at @mcsmfanzine!

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IT'S HERE ! Our very first edition of this brand new MCSM Fanzine is available to download for everyone on the neat little link below !

With a total of 78 pages, this fanzine gathered 37 people from the community for one big edition full of art, writing and love :D

Don't forget to support all the artists/authors who worked on this zine ! They all worked hard and did an amazing job at bringing this project to life.

You can be sure more will be made in the future, to give everyone who didn't make it in a chance . Who knows maybe we can make the next edition an even bigger thing than this one ?

Thank you all for you patiente and trusting me with this project , this is the best way for me to show my appreciation for this community !

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May my Emperor live ten thousand years!

An (un)official painting of the Emperor and Empress of Huaxia. I would absolutely bow for Wu Zetian. Maybe not Qin Zheng, but he is hot and communist so I am tempted.

This took me around 15-20 hours to make and it was so worth it <3

Details under the cut!

First off: the faces.

Because of how obscured it was going to be, I wanted to get a good sense of what Zetian would look like before the makeup and the mask. I tried to give her a kind of average appearance, because I wanted to try and make her look like a normal person under all of that Empress garb (she's only 18... she should have been at the clurbbb). Her face is purposefully a little asymmetrical.

For makeup, I went for the blush-that-makes-you-look-drunk look that was apparently fashionable among Tang ladies. Her lips and yedian are pretty standard. I saved the xiehong on the wrong layer like a clown 😭 but it's still visible under the mask. Not entirely sure if her huadian would be accurate, but it's the one on the painting of Empress Wu that I see most often.

Would Qin Zheng have a stroke if he saw Zetian hang out with men wearing this mask? Absolutely. Am I Qin Zheng? Nope I'm an artist who spent wayyyyy too long drawing Zetian's face and didn't want to cover it up fully. Her haircomb is in the shape of an upside-down butterfly. The sharp bit on the collar is inspired by a shirt I saw in the Hunger Games once, it's a style that's supposed to force you into keeping good posture. I hc that Qin Zheng included it to piss her off, and it's definitely working...

Now for Qin Zheng's face. I tried to go for a simple, smooth-wing look. I never really envisioned him as twink-y when I read the book and tried to go for a hot-and-scary-man look whilst keeping it a little bit androgynous. He'd never ever have his hair down for a formal painting but I want to separate his face from the rest of the piece. His eye is weaker on his scarred side. He looks a little feverish and a little bit infuriated: he is probably wondering why the hell he needs to be painted when photographs now exist.

It's a very busy painting and I fully expect people to gloss over this, so here's a little zoom on Qin Zheng gripping Zetian's armour. He's a freak.

Now for the throne. I tried to do a dragon/phoenix piece but it didn't show very well in the actual painting, so here it is. You can really tell how much I love scribble art lol.

And here's the base of the throne, with two dragons to keep our lovely tyrants company

I opted for a double-seated throne because I accidentally drew them too close together and couldn't move them because of the layers because feminism <3

Now for clothing. I noticed that on the HT cover, Zetian has a white gem whilst Qin Zheng has a black gem, but the clothes underneath are the opposite colours. I made the details on Qin Zheng's armour white and Zetian's details black, but Qin Zheng's armour ends up being darker whilst Zetian's armour is a lot paler. Symbolism... or something... Also they both get a heart because its cute, like a friendship bracelet.

I really can't draw scales though so erm. Yeah.

If you notice any er,,,, imagery in their lower robes it was unintentional I swear

Even though Qin Zheng is very much the taller, dominant figure in the piece, I tried to actually put the focus on Zetian, by making her armour a different shade of gold to the throne and by keeping her closer to the centre. I don't know if it worked but my eyes think so. I think out of the entire piece though, Zetian took me the longest because I hadn't settled on what look I was trying to go for her. I redrew her armour about five times, but thankfully by the time it was done I had pretty much solidified where I was going with Qin Zheng's armour and I finished that in no time.

Again I absolutely loved making this painting, it was SO worth it. It might me my most detailed ever. I adore Heavenly Tyrant so so so much it might actually be my favourite book ever lol.

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The second part and last part of the participant reveal, with the last of our member for this first edition ! Welcome our last 19 members of the zine,

you will once again be able to find their work in the zine when it will be published before the end of the month, be nice to them ! Also huge thank you to my two friend who helped with moderation on the discord and especially @justgoldenflower for helping with the zine layout itself <3 ( @oasis666 our strongest soldier, who even without speaking English that well still interacted with the discord a bunch) Next post will be the beginning of the countdown until the release, keep your eyes peeled !

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