#akong

Romans 8:6 (KJV)

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Might as well post the art I’ve been making before the end of the month. For these fan art, I wanted to train myself to draw in fluid motions and to use accurate colors since I don’t like using the eyedropper tool. Any criticism is accepted, especially on my wonderful attempt for digital painting.

Came back to the fandom of the Korean cartoon called: Running Man Animation. As far as I can tell, this show only premiered in Cartoon Network Asia but its still pretty popular since it is supposed to be based on the real-life variety show: Running Man. Although, it kinda feels like a dead fandom on life support, and that life support is the Running Man: Revengers movie by Locus Animation scheduled to release soon.

But still, I like the show. I made a whole essay on Facebook about how these characters fulfilled their specific roles but I don’t think I’ll post it here (for now) since that’s not really my content. Either way, the characters names starting from the top is: Akong, Manus, and Charming Gold. These three were the main villains of their respective season and parts, as their show have two seasons but separated into two parts.

The last one is supposed to be an art meme of the Grimace shake and as usual Instagram cropped it so I had to duplicate it because I was pretty proud of this one. I tried to create a creepy mood since I also wanted to practice on that area. Did good for an amateur’s first try. The character is named Pala and he also came from the show.

You can watch most of Season 1 episodes on their English Youtube channel, except for Episode 49 and Season 2 at the time of writing this. You need a Korean VPN to watch those and it only has Korean subtitles. Luckily, Season 1 doesn’t really need Episode 49 to finish it, as said episode was more of an exposition for Season 2. There’s also some videos and clips one can find on Youtube.

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For example Wonyoung had such great outfits while MCing at Music Bank with Sunghoon and Chaemin. I am aware that she is a brand ambassador for Miu Miu, iOiO and Fred Jewelry and Sue Comma Bonne and I have noticed a little bit of Miu Miu and Fred on her outfit while MCing , but rarely. Anyway, she could get sponsored without being the ambassador for the brand so I imagine all brands gifting Music Bank their clothes in hope that the stylists choose them for her outfits.

The vast majority of brands wore by Music Show MCs are small and relatively unknown or “C-B grade”. Including her outfits.

She never “shadowed” her MC partners either. They were always coordinated and well dressed. So her presence was positively extended on them too. I assume it is just normal that they got clothes for both, a viewer is going to look at both even if they come for mainly Wonyoung. I am talking about special MCs too by the way. I am aware that Sunghoon might also have been managed by personal company stylists too and being a popular idol, he probably had his fair share of gifted clothes with the thought of him in mind. But Wonyoung has more influence and her style was relevant event during MiniYoungz.

Overall, just the whole styling and ideas were far better when she was a MC. So I do think that the stylist themselves is different or someone on the styling team left.

Akong and Eunchaemin also dress well. And I suppose that there is always the thought of how they want the dynamic to present itself to the viewer. For example Eunchaemin is a Brother-Little sister who teases him, dynamic ; Jangkku and MiniYoungz were more equal teasers friends but (not quite close) and she was always the “more mature one” plus subtle charming from the men. Akong were the visibly shy introvert ones, probably (very calm and stable) childhood friends dynamic.

I wish I could talk of previous pairings but I started following consistently at mid Jangkku, plus it’s too old: The fashion and standards have changed a bit.

Eunchaemin outfits simply aren’t as good as Wonyoung & Co (various Partners) and so weren’t Akong although they had a “classic” and simplistic but lovely / quiet vibrant look. I watch other music shows too or at least I keep up with the outfits and wins(and some stages I am interested in watching) and even K-pop’s “The Show” has better outfits with their small budget. Not extraordinary but good enough even if not too creative.

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