When my discord server did our groupwatch of NiF over a year ago, we all noticed Meng-Da-ge’s amazing hat. He’s really the only person who can wear that hat and not be worn by the hat. So here’s a gifset to celebrate @hippity-hoppity-brigade being willing to be a mod in my server. Wheeeeeeeeee! :D
[ID: 8 gifs of Meng Zhi from ep 44 of Nirvana in Fire in 2 columns. Gif 1: Meng Zhi is on a horse! Gif 2: He swings his weapon, cape billowing. The enemy screams. He continues swinging his weapon. I would also scream Meng-Da-ge’s enemy. He is terrifying when he wants to be. Gif 3: Meng Zhi looking serious. Gif 4: He whips his head around and raises his sword with a battle cry. Gif 5: Meng Zhi’s face is dirty from battle. His face starts off in ¾ view. He turns his head towards the camera, takes a step forward, and looks up. Gif 6: He pulls out his sword, points it up (offscreen), and yells a comman. Gif 7: Meng Zhi in profile facing viewer’s right. He swings his sword, the ponytail on his hat sways with his movement. Gif 8: The battle is over. Meng Zhi has taken off his hat and is holding it as he walks up some steps.]
Modern AU where Wangxian share a wall in their apartment block, and A Yuan's bedtime and Lan Zhan's guqin practice time line up.
After a couple of weeks falling asleep to Lan Wangji playing, A Yuan can't fall asleep without it.
Wangxian meet when Lan Zhan comes home after an evening out with Xichen, to hear his neighbour singing his latest composition out on the balcony. Lan Zhan falls in love with the voice as soon as he hears it, and goes out on his balcony to find Wei Ying rocking slowly around in a circle with a sleeping toddler in his arms.
It's love at first sight.
EDIT... I did a sketch of this scene!! (Wei Ying is totally wearing crocs btw.)
Illustration for my The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling/Mo Dao Zu Shi ficlet Bailuobo, which you can read HERE.
Digital. Procreate. 25 hrs.
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In the end I am actually quite happy with how this turned out, and I don’t say that very often.
I began this with a few thumbnail sketches as I tried to decide what scene from this short ficlet I wanted to illustrate. I landed on the actual kiss because, that being the source of the prompt the ficlet came from, it seemed the most appropriate. Plus, who doesn’t love some tender Wangxian?
I built a quick 3D model of an interior hallway space in Shapr3D and exported some renders which I used as a base to construct the hallway. However, I ended up not liking the arrangement of that space, so I essentially rebuilt it from scratch on the fly with some simple one-point perspective construction lines. I knew I wanted Wei Wuxian to appear caught in a pool of light, but partly shielded from it by Lan Wangji as he kisses away his tears. Everything else was built around that.
I also wanted some element in the frame that suggested the source of Wei Wuxian’s grief in the ficlet which could double as a foreground compositional element. Originally, I had planned to include some dried lotus seed pods in a vase in the extreme foreground (remember how Lan Wangji brings the long-stemmed lotus pods back and puts them in a vase of some sort in the entry way of Gentian House in one of the novel extras? I imagined something similar here). But ultimately, I felt it detracted from the figures, so in the end I settled on the less obtrusive rabbits on the left (it’s a rabbit funeral that incites this moment, after all).
Other than some image reference for the rabbits and screenshots from the show of Lan Wangji’s headpiece, I managed to do this piece without any visual, anatomical, or likeness references. Yay for pulling things out of my head!
If there’s any interest in purchasing prints, I may upload this to INPRNT.
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