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24,he/him,Bi ❤️🔥,part time student+freelance illustrator based in Saigon,no NFTs/AI, love cats,coffee+art history/anthropological stuffs. Pfp from @saliannn.bsky.social and bg from @greypetrel.bsky.social
Have been quite busy with Christmas with both working full time and studying in college!!!
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Have been quite busy with Christmas with both working full time and studying in college!!!
Aphrodite more colorful but modest business casual attire inspired from the 80s, on the other hand, reflects on her role working as a love/relationship counselor who also helps people cope with the emotions of loss and grief, self esteem/body image therapy -akin more to holistic wellness, interfaith
October 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Aphrodite more colorful but modest business casual attire inspired from the 80s, on the other hand, reflects on her role working as a love/relationship counselor who also helps people cope with the emotions of loss and grief, self esteem/body image therapy -akin more to holistic wellness, interfaith
Ares specializing in physical therapy/ rehabilitation, PTSD/trauma therapy for army veterans/first responders patients and anger management counseling therapy. (Hence his workwear is quite pretty much similar to a traditional hospital nurse’s scrubs the most, with different colors codes for each
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ares specializing in physical therapy/ rehabilitation, PTSD/trauma therapy for army veterans/first responders patients and anger management counseling therapy. (Hence his workwear is quite pretty much similar to a traditional hospital nurse’s scrubs the most, with different colors codes for each
Initially this was pretty much following an art trend based on one of the work covers of the Veil manga, drawn by K0tteri/Fukuda Ikumi at the beginning of last year. But over the time, I combined more ideas based on the conversation with my Greek friends also. Of what will the gods’ role would be-
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Initially this was pretty much following an art trend based on one of the work covers of the Veil manga, drawn by K0tteri/Fukuda Ikumi at the beginning of last year. But over the time, I combined more ideas based on the conversation with my Greek friends also. Of what will the gods’ role would be-
A double-life corporate AU where Ares and Aphrodite working as licensed professional counseling therapists in the healthcare sector, based in Thessaloniki during the day and as independent commercial fashion models by contract during the night. 👔
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A double-life corporate AU where Ares and Aphrodite working as licensed professional counseling therapists in the healthcare sector, based in Thessaloniki during the day and as independent commercial fashion models by contract during the night. 👔
Aphrodite and Ares casual makeup look for their 9-5 vs the more formal high fashion model makeup look that they do whenever they model.
Being Southeast Asian, the best part of Asian makeup is that I always loving a girl who do colorful vibrant watercolor eyeshadow with bolder lip touches. 💄
Being Southeast Asian, the best part of Asian makeup is that I always loving a girl who do colorful vibrant watercolor eyeshadow with bolder lip touches. 💄
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Aphrodite and Ares casual makeup look for their 9-5 vs the more formal high fashion model makeup look that they do whenever they model.
Being Southeast Asian, the best part of Asian makeup is that I always loving a girl who do colorful vibrant watercolor eyeshadow with bolder lip touches. 💄
Being Southeast Asian, the best part of Asian makeup is that I always loving a girl who do colorful vibrant watercolor eyeshadow with bolder lip touches. 💄
Art vs Artist
October 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Art vs Artist
I’m aware that the color red are rarely used and sometimes even discouraged in the scrubs of medical professionals, but the “red wine” have always fit well with his tanned skin complexion. So I am using it haha!!!
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m aware that the color red are rarely used and sometimes even discouraged in the scrubs of medical professionals, but the “red wine” have always fit well with his tanned skin complexion. So I am using it haha!!!
Some closeups!!!
October 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Some closeups!!!
Japanese vaporwave city pop plays in the background 🎧🎸…
I can see them discussing some upcoming events that they need to visit in Thessaloniki while waiting for the commute metro to came by, and maybe what type of dinner dish that they’re having lol? Perhaps they are going to eat outside?!!
I can see them discussing some upcoming events that they need to visit in Thessaloniki while waiting for the commute metro to came by, and maybe what type of dinner dish that they’re having lol? Perhaps they are going to eat outside?!!
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Japanese vaporwave city pop plays in the background 🎧🎸…
I can see them discussing some upcoming events that they need to visit in Thessaloniki while waiting for the commute metro to came by, and maybe what type of dinner dish that they’re having lol? Perhaps they are going to eat outside?!!
I can see them discussing some upcoming events that they need to visit in Thessaloniki while waiting for the commute metro to came by, and maybe what type of dinner dish that they’re having lol? Perhaps they are going to eat outside?!!
A bit of WIP for the corporate/ professional AU where both Ares and Aphrodite, in their modern mortal disguise form, working as licensed professional therapists.
October 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A bit of WIP for the corporate/ professional AU where both Ares and Aphrodite, in their modern mortal disguise form, working as licensed professional therapists.
Sweet fruits and breads/cakes that were baked all shapes and forms, wine, honey and beer, incense, perfumes, smelling wax, large chests and cosmetic boxes carrying jewelry + semiprecious gemstones objects, etc - perfect for the goddess who is known for her diva personality
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sweet fruits and breads/cakes that were baked all shapes and forms, wine, honey and beer, incense, perfumes, smelling wax, large chests and cosmetic boxes carrying jewelry + semiprecious gemstones objects, etc - perfect for the goddess who is known for her diva personality
While the Greeks only have like libations of wines and oils, small votive offerings figurines and animal sacrifices, and since Aphrodite forbade animal sacrifices and no blood shed on her altar, I gave her offerings of sweets food instead..
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
While the Greeks only have like libations of wines and oils, small votive offerings figurines and animal sacrifices, and since Aphrodite forbade animal sacrifices and no blood shed on her altar, I gave her offerings of sweets food instead..
plentiful agriculturally of the Greeks and Mesopotamians were back then, since it seemed that ancient Egyptians seemed to have the most largest and plentiful breadbasket up until the Roman period. (Therefore, the most nutritional food diet.)
September 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
plentiful agriculturally of the Greeks and Mesopotamians were back then, since it seemed that ancient Egyptians seemed to have the most largest and plentiful breadbasket up until the Roman period. (Therefore, the most nutritional food diet.)
For the offerings of the temple, I mostly based them on all of the decorations and offerings in our Buddhist/folk deities temples- the way that we often stacked offerings on top of each other; and trying to giving more space for others to bringing the offerings also-since i don’t really know how
September 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
For the offerings of the temple, I mostly based them on all of the decorations and offerings in our Buddhist/folk deities temples- the way that we often stacked offerings on top of each other; and trying to giving more space for others to bringing the offerings also-since i don’t really know how
Some additional closeup details of the temple of Baalat Gebal, with the accompanying map of ancient archeological site of Jbeil-Byblos. Phoenician architecture are often typified by “large temples with double-columned facades approached by a short staircase”, “enclosed sacred spaces containing cube-
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some additional closeup details of the temple of Baalat Gebal, with the accompanying map of ancient archeological site of Jbeil-Byblos. Phoenician architecture are often typified by “large temples with double-columned facades approached by a short staircase”, “enclosed sacred spaces containing cube-
while Isis being the goddess of magic, life, and wisdom, an epitome of eternal maternal devotion, protectress of all living things, from pharaohs to the vulnerable and all aspects of the kingdom.)
September 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
while Isis being the goddess of magic, life, and wisdom, an epitome of eternal maternal devotion, protectress of all living things, from pharaohs to the vulnerable and all aspects of the kingdom.)
and later “Isis-Aphrodite” during the Hellenistic Greek and Roman periods. (Aphrodite being the fertility Greek goddess of war, love, lust, beauty, passion, and procreation, and later is associated with prosperity, victory, and the ancestral mother of Rome through syncretism with Venus,
September 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
and later “Isis-Aphrodite” during the Hellenistic Greek and Roman periods. (Aphrodite being the fertility Greek goddess of war, love, lust, beauty, passion, and procreation, and later is associated with prosperity, victory, and the ancestral mother of Rome through syncretism with Venus,
and the goddess of maternal care, protector of Ra and consort of several male deities and the mother of their sons”;
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
and the goddess of maternal care, protector of Ra and consort of several male deities and the mother of their sons”;
regarded as Hathor of the Egyptian pantheon back when Levant have ties with Old Kingdom period Egypt, as “the sky-solar cow goddess of beauty, music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, whom often crossed the boundary of Egypt to the foreign lands, as well as the land of the living and Duat,
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
regarded as Hathor of the Egyptian pantheon back when Levant have ties with Old Kingdom period Egypt, as “the sky-solar cow goddess of beauty, music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, whom often crossed the boundary of Egypt to the foreign lands, as well as the land of the living and Duat,
For Baalat Gebal herself- the tutelary deity were venerated for millenia by the Canaanites/ Phoenicians, she were often equated to Astarte of the wider Canaanite pantheon, as “the goddess of beauty, love, war and hunting”;
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For Baalat Gebal herself- the tutelary deity were venerated for millenia by the Canaanites/ Phoenicians, she were often equated to Astarte of the wider Canaanite pantheon, as “the goddess of beauty, love, war and hunting”;
the previous Cypriot Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia in Paphos that I drew in the past. Within here, I drew it from the view from the nearby Temple of the Obelisks- another temple that were built centuries later dedicated to the Canaanite god of plague, death & war, Reshef/Resheph.
September 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
the previous Cypriot Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia in Paphos that I drew in the past. Within here, I drew it from the view from the nearby Temple of the Obelisks- another temple that were built centuries later dedicated to the Canaanite god of plague, death & war, Reshef/Resheph.