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Hakurei Shrine

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ex boss chan will have very reasonable and sensible memes made of her im sure

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It's my birthday! I'd be very happy if you share some of my 2hu oil paintings

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My saviour, beautiful lady,

Make me your god, I can give you everything

When our darknesses overlap

Let me take it all away

Ruler of my heart, ruler of my heart, ruler of my heart

You are forever beautiful

Ruler of my heart, ruler of my heart,

ruler of my heart~

Artist's Notes;

So I've been thinking about Zanmu a lot since I posted my last post on her and I had the idea to do a Zan/Hisa piece kind of inspired by how I see their dynamic. I did quite a bit of experimenting with the rendering as I slowly learned the wonders of the default gouache brush in CSP and how much texture it gives in lighting and rendering.

My goal was always for this piece to be lit like an old Caravagio or vermeer painting since I fucking love doing dramatic lighting a lot. Some of the values ended up a bit muddy but honestly I kinda like that, it makes the piece feel mysterious and leans it towards a more impressionistic style in a way. I love the way that many older paintings are rendered and lit, and I often look to those for inspiration for a piece.

My sketch started with me just getting the gestures for the poses down, colour coding each figure so I could differentiate them, after this I changed both of those colours to skin tones and defined the face shapes a bit more so they weren't blobs like they are in this sketch.

Here are also the multiple thumbnailing sketches I did in my sketchbook, mainly because I needed to figure out the posing and what the hell I was gonna do with Hisami's left arm lol. I even made an abstract line version of the composition mainly to get a sense of the movement, and the larger sketch on the bottom really helped solidify Hisami's pose in the drawing.

I focused on Zanmu the most during the process, mainly because I knew the way her clothes were positioned would affect the overall look of the piece since she took up quite a bit of the background. I used an old piece I drew of Reimu to kind get the sleeve on the raised arm right since I knew I did a similar shape before, what mattered most was it reading well rather than being super focused on the physics.

Hisami was actually surprisingly easy to do since I usually struggle with making her veil look right, but I'm actually with how I drew it here, it added some nice motion to the piece and I like that. I also made Zanmu's tassles more dramatic, basically surrounding Hisami in the piece.

I fucking love how the lighting turned out. After using the gouache brush in a previous drawing (which I can't show because it's a part of a thingy I'm working on) I thought it would be perfect to use for the painterly vibe I was going for. After I finished all of the lighting on the base, I went in and painted over a few details to make it look more crisp and define some more details in the drawing. I also gave Hisami her red halo that I gave her in an older piece of mine, mainly because I thought it fit in this context. Overall I am really happy with this drawing, and it helped restore some faith in my skills that I lost for a little while.

Also if you recognize the song lyrics I used above, hi, I too have not recovered from that explosive last episode, helped the story really stick the landing eh? :)

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zanhisa🧍‍♀️

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Divine Howl

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I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.

He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he's going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we're all friends here... and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn't acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you're exempted from bowing and "Your Highness" will do. It's a really interesting lecture.

"Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won't be here next week, me and Aang are going to-" yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka's hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.

One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She's currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you're from the Southern Water Tribe, but it's just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don't think that every person from the South knows one another haha it's just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or...

Sokka looks at her blankly and goes "yeah, she's my sister. KATARA!" which is followed by a faint answering "fuck you!" from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.

Sokka does not teach or study history, but he does sometimes sit in on lectures about recent history. Whenever he does, several doctoral students flock in to sit near him (even if it's an intro course) so that they can eavesdrop on his grumbling. (No matter how they try, an "overheard utterance" is not a valid source according to their professors. No, we have no sources on the Avatar's bison taking part in combat - sky bison are not war animals and...)

He gets regular deliveries with the Beifong family crest on them, and he goes "sweet, Toph must have found some new minerals" and at this point nobody needs to ask which Toph. He seems to have friends everywhere, literally everywhere. Wang was headed out to this massive swamp to study if it's one big organism, and Sokka told him to find some guy named Hue and "don't mind the loincloth." One time the university gets shut down because the Earth King wants to visit. Oh, visit the University? What an honor- Of fucking course not, he wants to visit Professor Sokka, who yells at him and his royal guards for interrupting his day. The Earth King and his many, many royal guards then sheepishly say sorry and file out.

The last straw is when - not a week after he yelled at the Earth King - the assistant head of the Political Science dept walks in to the faculty lounge to find Sokka having tea with a nice normal man dressed in Earth greens for once, and can't resist a little joke. "Let me guess, you're having tea with the Fire Lord." And then she can instantly tell that she fucked up, because both of them go stock still.

So when the two men awkwardly stand up and proceed to introduce the Fire Lord whose portrait she has in her office because she is the assistant head of Political Science as Li, a server at the Jasmine Dragon, she just says "hello Li" and leaves to find a bottle of something strong.

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imperishable night

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By Sakumono

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Kidnapping and Robbery are on the table as long as Seiga tells you to do it first

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We as a society need to draw these two tearing into their food like feral animals more

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"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.

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Shrine Maiden of Paradise

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