Hwei's (mostly) art blog
“Your move”
my screams as I read the translation of this chapter… ETA I’m forgetting my manners THANK YOU MERC FOR YEARS OF TIRELESS TRANSLATION ;_;
King of decisions, hoarder of regrets.
“Chinese ink” brushes courtesy of the amazing zhuzhu
I lost it at “Cough”
Sometimes I think Guo Jia is also Chen Mou’s favorite character
When I tell people that The Ravages of Time is a HK comic loosely based off the Romance of Three Kingdoms I use ‘loosely’ as in ‘I am sure the historical Guo Jia was not this devastatingly beautiful’
ETA I mean Chen Mou’s design of Guo Jia is devastatingly beautiful sob
I am sorry for not posting much art lately here is some Guo Jia spam. The first is uhh a Guo Jia and Jia Xu story I want to do at some point in my life (sorry wenhe you are to me forever an ossan).The second is just blatant Ravages of Time fanart and please excuse my horrible calligraphy..
I really want to send a respectful fan letter to Chen Mou but I’ll have to write it in English since I don’t think he would react well to “ni de Guo Jia hen piao liang” and that is all the Mandarin I know
In other news Jia Xu has extremely beautiful hair in the newer chapters (when did you have the time to rebond in the middle of a battle???) and I hope Guo Jia gets to slap Sima Yi at least once before he dies
“We Are Strategists” celebrate the success of their new hit single “I Don’t Fight*”
The official DW7XL site updated today with “a new promotional movie” (Koeiese for “2 minutes of fantrolling in HD”). There is a nice scene of Wang Yi fighting the two Mas, and Cao Cao using his cloak to summon Guo Jia, who then proceeds to look like David Bowie. Apparently always a useful skill
* Don’t believe it
Pages 1-4 of a story not really about tea (tea culture was important during the Sengoku period, not so much in the Three Kingdoms so I guess Guo Jia just picked it up from some Tang officer passing through)
Despite the tags this is actually a serious comic, aside from food and games I do think a lot about death and life and the meanings of both. I spend a lot of time doing things alone (by choice and not) and this used to be dangerous when I got stuck at ‘in the long run all our efforts are absolutely futile’. (I tried to write more about how I got out of that loop but it got long and I have to work.. Anyway all my feelings wrt accepting the futility/absurdity of life and carrying on will end up in some comic somewhere / have already been much more eloquently expressed by Albert Camus)
“Guo Fengxiao. The only Wei officer who could possibly turn up for work in thigh-highs*”
*Not historically.
“Benevolence? Isn’t that a country in Europe with a lot of dams?”
The kingdom of Shu will never know what hit them. Except that it was wearing Zhen Ji’s boots with the stilettos removed
Oldish ink drawings. I’m not sure what’s going on either
Because it is never too late to learn I have decided to sign up for Chinese ink painting classes. This is going to be amusing (for everyone else) since I can’t read or write or even speak any Chinese dialects and I suspect the classes are conducted in Mandarin or Cantonese..
What is everyone else if Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are peacocks
(Answer: not peacocks)
I was going to put working on this off until July. (No matter what it can’t be more historically inaccurate than Dynasty Warriors right..) Then I realized it is almost July..
