#started nty teehee

[distant-screaming]

why can these vn protags never just be normal it's always gotta be some guy experimented on for years by his grandpa (??)

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【Magi】 Judar 🖤❤️🐈‍⬛

2022

2024

2nd version has eyes that are slightly bigger (similar to the OG one in 2022)

Inspiration

Based on this black and red (Judar colours) hanfu I got~

Photos of my hanfu 🖤❤️

Pictures of me trying on my hanfu~

(EDIT: Removed cuz I made this blog non-priv now)

I need to learn how to tie the qun (wrap around skirt) cuz I am literally so bad at tying ties... These are mirror photos but I flipped them so it'd be shown correctly~

With the hanfu jacket this time~ I'm so happy I'm matching with my fave AHHHH

This was my old desktop setup btw (since these are photos I took in May 2023 when I first got my hanfu). Thankfully I got a new laptop and a huge monitor to look at (as my main screen). It's SOOO much better than just looking at a tiny laptop screen, I highly recommend it for ergonomics (if people can afford it)

Alt Versions I drew before

Judar rambles

I originally drew Judar wearing hanfu in 2022! Still one of my personal fave doodles ❤️ Judar is my fave (no one is surprised, I have the most obvious predictable tastes in the world LMAO). A meow meow mf perfect for my tastes.

Judar fits perfectly into the highly specific Sen-core niche that my top faves all tend to fall under - Meow meow mf. C*nty sen-core bastard cat who's violent, threatens people, and ok with murder. Bloodthirsty. Monochrome aesthetic colour palette.

Manga Judar has red eyeliner (?) and anime Judar has purple eyeshadow? Both are good, but I like Judar with red eyeliner since black and red are his theme colours! 🖤❤️ I like how the colours pop, the contrast against his design, and how it matches his red eyes.

In my HCs, Judar wears a type of hanfu called 襦裙 (ruqun). 襦 (ru) is the top of a hanfu, and the wrap-around skirt is called 裙 (qun).

I want him to wear black, white, red, gold, hanfu & hanfu earrings, with red eyeliner and black painted nails 🤗

I still need to pick my headcanon hanfu earrings for Judar... I imagine they'd be gold with red accessories.

I just have to refine the eyes, redraw the hair and hanfu, and then start doing the lineart for it! I love the expression tbh

Magi: Ch. 110 - Ch. 196/197 - Ch. 239

I love how Ohtaka stylizes and draws the shape of Judar's hair and braids. It's so clever how she simplifies the shapes. It just looks so good. It looks galaxy/tornado shaped… I love how the hatched lines above his eyes in Ohtaka's inking represents his eyeliner... ❤️

I just have to redraw the hair and hanfu and then start doing the lineart for it! Love the expression

I miss my sons, I wanna draw my HC designs of JuAli (with Judar wearing hanfu and Alibaba with tanner skin, wearing traditional Arabic clothes), as a fix-it for the obvious colourism & racial stereotyping going on in Magi's designs of SWANA and South Asian inspired charas...

I bought black and red hanfu back in 2023. I based my Judar hanfu doodles on it 🥺❤️ It's in Judar colours. Black red and white 🖤❤️🤍 I'm so HAPPY to get something that reminds me of my fave 🥰🤭❤️✨ I got it from the Hanfu Story~ They have such a large selection of hanfu and they're all so gorgeous~

Basically Judar themed hanfu~ I love traditional clothes, so it's my dream to collect them! Now I can use it as refs to draw him with the poses and lighting I want teehee. Hanfu & huafu look GORGEOUS to me. I also have Việt Phục like áo dài and áo tấc~

The colours are amazing!! I love black and red combo 😭💖 It's way too easy to fall into the fashion hole and collecting traditional clothes but I definitely want more in the future!

Art rambles

When I sketch, I draw out the expressions and decide which ones looks best (I either do it once or a few ~ several times) depending on whether I'm satisfied with it. I like the two most recent 2024 versions I showed~ The old one is still nice... But I prefer the recent versions, because I think it shows how my art style and proportions improved.

The sketch is super messy right now so when I get the time I'll refine them more! It's just to make it consistent with my current style. I'm a little insecure about my sketches, so I prefer posting them on priv for mutuals only.

Since I'm not really a fan of the idea of my sketches/WIPs getting posted around when I'm bound to fix/refine/improve on them later when I get the chance to refine them. Though thankfully with my 2022+ lining style, my sketches look more "aesthetically nice" or "post worthy" to me...

My friends told me that I could just post them on main with no tags and a caption like "Please don't reblog!" and people would probably respect that, but ahh I'm still hesitant about my sketches getting reblogged around...

Perhaps in the future... I do genuinely like my art style and I'm very happy with my art improvement, but I want to keep growing as an artist first. I want to reach the point where I manage to become more technically skilled and confident about my works (even my sketches)

This time I attached IRL photos since I thought these pics turned out pretty~ So I'd prefer to keep these on priv just for mutuals.

You can read more under the cut!

Re: My thoughts on the issues with the portrayals of certain cultures in Magi

This is how I feel with my faves. Not just my Magi faves, but in general.

I have my HC designs with Xanxus (KHR), Idate (WATGBS AU), Judar (Magi), etc. So many of my faves.

I wanted to project Judar's ethnicity on his design more since Judar is CN-inspired. Also he'd look gorgeous wearing hanfu.

And also cuz I fucking hate his outfit in canon. It's so ugly imo cuz it's a bastardized/racially stereotyped take on what Indian/South Asian clothes look like.

Doing cultural exchanges/wearing other cultures' clothes' is fine, but I think a lot of the racially stereotyped clothing designs is definitely something to criticize.

As someone Viet/SEAsian, I really despise how EA and SEA media, such as animanga + games, often feed into SWANA and South Asian orientalism and racial stereotyping, disrespectful takes, etc. We don't need these ugly ass "dancer-esque" outfits!!!

SWANA and South Asian traditional clothes have such beautiful patterns, and colours... People are really missing out... I wish popular media would depict that instead!!!