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Bing Yi & Ying Long — Fangs of Fortune ☆ Ep.27

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stop staring at me, will you?

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Director: So you need to look at him like he hung the stars in the sky, can you do that?

Zhang Zehan: aight bet

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The city of flowers

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TIAN JIA RUI. Weibo Update (2024).

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Yoshitaka Amano

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Cardan Greenbriar by itswibell_art on Instagram

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It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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@userdramas event 06: second time to shine ↳ XUE YANG — THE UNTAMED 陈情令 (2019) dir. Steve Cheng

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Wen Kexing after killing the old Ghost Valley master.

Based on this quote, by Meng Hui, in chapter 74:

When he came out, for an instant, it was unclear whether his robes were made of red fabric or if he was drenched in fresh blood; and for the first time we saw a smile appear on the wooden man's usually frozen face.

Here's the original:

这男人从里面出来的时候，身上穿着一件鲜红的袍子，那一瞬间，竟让人分辨不出，是本来颜色，还是被鲜血染就，他那张从来不动声色的木讷的脸，第一回在所有人面前露出一个笑容来。

I really wanted to try and grasp what his face could have been at that moment, considering the circumstances, what it could have meant for him to do that--killing the GVM as violently as he did. Given WKX's plans, it's safe to assume that becoming the Valley Master was a part of the plan (despite it being the most dangerous position in the Valley) to get to the key, or at least to reach the power to execute what he wanted to.

To become the Valley Master, you must kill the previous one. The way in which he did it, the violence, the brutality, can indicate many things; either a personal hatred for the man, or something more symbolic—that would be up to interpretation.

Regardless—the smile, the first smile they ever saw within Yan Wang Hall, from whom they called the "wooden man"... I wanted to explore, what did the smile mean, how could he be represented?

I think it's up to each and everyone to read something there, so I won't elaborate on my own perception and meaning of that. I just thought useful to add a bit of context. ----- I think that one of my favourite exercises is to work on nuanced expressions that can carry a lot of meaning and emotions with subtle details. The type of expression that every line and pixel can influence, where its representation comes down to the tiniest speck of colour and shadow. I'm happy with how it came out, and I feel like this ended up representing Wen Kexing quite well for me.

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Yan Wushi

Based on the novel “A Thousand Autumns” by Meng Xishi.

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Liu Yuning in A Journey to Love

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