#aph persia

[peonycats]

I feel stupid for asking this so im using anon, but how do you draw the hijab? Whenever I try it looks like an egg www

also, Ramadan Mubarak! May Allah bless you

Don’t feel stupid for asking! Drawing is hard no matter what you’re drawing, so don’t be afraid to ask for help^^ But honestly even I feel like the best of my hijabis look a little egg-like, and that’s okay!

This tutorial is already taking so goddamn long, so I’m just gonna link my coloring and shading tutorial I did a month ago 😭😭

Gosh, I hope what I wrote made sense 😅 But thank you so much for the well wishes! Happy Ramadan (Eid Mubarak at this point WAHHH), and the same to you, may you and your loved ones have many blessings!!

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Winchester Meg's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

Souratgar's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

General Tips for Drawing and Shading Fabrics

[miyuecakes]

this aged poorly given that argentina withdrew from brics original

[meitoscringe]

Laso/lazo tool doodles

[ifindus]

Secret Santa gift for @jehirodraws with the @hws-anthology ! ✨

I had a lot of fun with it, hope you like it!

[a-denn]

This drawing was created in the fall of 2022 for my friend and her fan fiction )

[pearlescentplums]

I HATE DRAWERING SH*P ART 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 HOW DOES SRIRAM AND (especially) MEHRZAD FEEL LIVING MY FUCKING DREAM ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[mustela28nivalis]

Canon height of England - 175 cm, Ukraine - 166 cm, Egypt 160 - cm/Persia - 170 cm, Poland - 170 cm, Hungary - 162 cm, India - 166 cm, America - 177 cm, Russia - 182(or 183) cm, China - 169 cm. If you remove the units from them and turn them into dogs, then they will turn out to be sighthounds of standard sizes. Long live sighthoundtalia!

[ladyinfierno-art]

This was part of the Hetacalendar 2023 project, sadly it's no longer running so here it is

My general concept was "Ludwig gets invited to the old nations, past nations autumn dinner"

[39kqm]

i find it very humorous to draw romes concrete slappers like that (germania is not present because this fight happens to fall on his bi monthly spa day)

[myrddin-wylt]

Which of the Ancients had the most embarrassing death?

depends what you'd consider embarrassing.

Athene/Attika had definitely the silliest, most slapstick-esque deaths, several of them involving mountains but many more that were just like. 'choked while trying to eat grapes in a Sexy Way.' 'smothered under her own blankets/cloaks' 'tripped on her own weapon while laughing at Dariush for doing the exact same thing' 'got a shiny new chariot and felt the Need for Speed a little too intensely' etc etc....

poor Dariush suffered scaphism at least once. is that embarrassing? it's definitely disgusting and undignified, holy shit. also at least once he decided it'd be a great idea to spear an enemy's war elephant in the belly, immediately causing it to collapse on top of him.

Yao being made by his emperor to swallow pills of mercury to gain that Eternal Life, despite his repeated insistence that he already had it.... also the latrine. I'm subjecting Yao to drowning in the latrine. I'm making it happen to Romulus too for the sake of fairness.

meanwhile, Yong Soo just in the back flexing over all of them like ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

[peonycats]

[miyuecakes]

more ryoko kui inspired busts + covering their awrah ver cause why not lol

[meitoscringe]

Persia juice

[vahvah]

Well, I think the situation around the perception of iranian history and greek history in fandom is quite similar.

Let's be honest, for most people there is only Ancient Greece (by which they mean the history of the classical greek city-states + hellenistic period + roman period, we are not particularly touching on the dark ages and bronze age Mycenaean Greece, not to mention earlier times), which they - following the manga/anime canon - separate from modern Greece. And there is modern Greece, which, in general, began its independent existence in the first half of the nineteenth century, when a small piece of territory in the southern Balkans gained independence and was called “Hellas”. At best, they have ottoman rule as a kind of “preparatory period” when the canonical Iraklis grew up, did not understand anything and did not really decide anything. And at the same time, modern Greece is the son of Ancient Greece, who loves to be nostalgic about his cool mother, who did something great there more than two thousand years ago. Cool, yeah.

Likewise, for most people there is "ancient Persia" (before the conquest of the Islamic Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries AD) and "modern Iran", which they count from the Islamization of the Iranian plateau. In the manga canon, we have a character called "Persia", who people unthinkingly identify with the Achaemenid state, the Parthian Arsacid state, and the Sassanid state. In fanon, he (“Persia”) actively interacts (at war) with Rome, interacts with China and India in much rarer cases, and the mangaka also mentioned that he has descendants, one of which is “modern” Iran, yes. And, of course, there is an incredible amount of time devoted to the Achaemenid period (but not the greco-persian Wars, which shocked me when researching the fandom). Cool, yeah.

But you know what's surprising? None of this makes any sense.

If we take Greece... no, we take greek culture, we will understand that it has continuously developed, without gaps, from the time of the classical polis until the present moment, BUT, if you really want to find a watershed, then this is late antiquity. Why? Because in late antiquity, the pagan hellenes, living in their separate city-states as citizens, became christian rhomeans, subjects of the vast Eastern Roman Empire (which in fact is still perceived as a Republic). The roman "imperial" identity replaced the greek polis identity - although the greek language still dominated in the East, especially after the Avar conquest of the Balkans, when the Empire lost the latin-speaking provinces. The perception of “hellenic” identity was very complex, it experienced a revival, especially in the 13th century, when the roman/latin identity began to be associated with the germans/italians/franks, enemies of the Eastern Empire, but this is if we are talking about intellectuals - the people considered themselves rhomeans. And guess what? The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 did not change anything! There was no break or fracture! The Church of Constantinople continued to be the guardian of this identity even in the absence of christian imperial power! And the people who started the Greek Revolution in the 19th century did not strive to create a small national state, no, in their eyes ALL of Anatolia and the Balkans were the historical lands of the Eastern Roman Empire, which they considered their country. The fascination with ancient pagan Greece is something that was brought from the West, which despised “Byzantium”.

And if you look at Iran, the real boundary between "ancient" and "modern" history is the conquest of Alexander the Great. Because - this will amaze many - but until the second half of the 19th century in Iran itself they knew nothing about the ancient history of the country! The first historical event preserved in chronicles and art, say, the "Shahnameh" of Ferdowsi, is the conquest of Alexander, which has nothing to do with the real one (I will only say that Alexander is considered a descendant of the iranian royal dynasty there). In Iran, they knew almost nothing about the greco-persian wars, about the Seleucids, about the parthian Arsacids and the roman-parthian wars! The real history in Iranian perception began only with the Sassanids, who were at enmity with “Rum” - but, first of all, not with Western, decrepit Rome, but with Eastern Rome! It was “Byzantium” that was “Rome” for the Iranians and for the entire Middle East until the 19th century, while the Western “latins” were the “franks”. Moreover, I want to note that the complete forgetting of the history of the country before Alexander in Iran began even under the Sassanids - largely because ancient persian was a cuneiform language, and cuneiform was forgotten (as for the iranian epic, its oldest part is eastern iranian in origin, western iranian, persian, it becomes only from the time of Ardashir the First). But the arab conquest and adoption of islam did not have such consequences! And when the revival of iranian culture and the new persian language began in the 9th-10th centuries A.D., it was a revival, albeit rethought, of Sassanian identity.

In short, while it makes sense to separate Ancient Greece from "Byzantium", it makes no sense to separate "Byzantium" from modern Greece. And the history of modern Iran begins with the Sassanids, not Islamization.

[irithnova]

Mongolia: Oh selfless Tolui, he gave his life to save his dear brother Ogodei, cursed by China's spirits of Earth and Water, he sacrificed himself to -

Iran: He died of alcohol poisoning.

[ifindus]

👑?

👑 my favorite ancient nation

Persia!! He is so cool ✨