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Today is my home slice =Shira-chan 's birthday!! Happy birthday, man!! Awoohoo!
I'm ashamed to admit it, but this is actually Sarah's birthday present...from three or four years ago. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said drawings of the four winds personified. Silly me, I thought I could overcome my great and terrible procrastinating powers! But uh, no. I redrew this last year and have spent this week finishing it so that, four birthdays later, Sarah will finally get the first part of that series as her birthday present.
I fail! The end!
Anywho, I'm hugely inspired by art nouveau and Alphonse Mucha, so here's my human personification of the East Wind in an art nouveau style.
There's a little bit going on in this image, so I'll try to explain and type too much:
- I figured I'd connect the Four Winds to their respective continents...sort of. So the East Wind is sort of an amalgamation of some prominent Eastern countries - Chinese facial features, Japanese clothing, Indian jewelry, etc. SO many pretty clothes. I was gonna put patterns on the kimono, but it looked a little too busy. Really, I wish I'd done better research for more clothing details, but I'll do that for the next picture, now that I know what I'm doing four years later xD
- The East Wind, from what I've read, is imagined to be a sort of mischievous spirit - so I tried to make her expression a little more impish than usual. Also, her leg is pointing in which direction the wind would blow - originating in the east and moving toward the west.
- I looked further into the mischief part of the 'east wind' and added things associated with a trickster god, like clocks and keys (in her hair) and, if I remember correctly, something about a vase of water? I can't find my research
- I've also read that crows are associated with trickster gods and mischievous mythological figures.
oh, also! Forgot about this: Part of her headdress, and the suns in the background ring, are a reference to the "land of the rising sun." You know, sun rises in the east.
Blahhh this really coulda been better if I'd done more research and not gotten lazy. But I digress! The image turned out fairly nice
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Art © Gina M. 2011.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but this is actually Sarah's birthday present...from three or four years ago. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said drawings of the four winds personified. Silly me, I thought I could overcome my great and terrible procrastinating powers! But uh, no. I redrew this last year and have spent this week finishing it so that, four birthdays later, Sarah will finally get the first part of that series as her birthday present.
I fail! The end!
Anywho, I'm hugely inspired by art nouveau and Alphonse Mucha, so here's my human personification of the East Wind in an art nouveau style.
There's a little bit going on in this image, so I'll try to explain and type too much:
- I figured I'd connect the Four Winds to their respective continents...sort of. So the East Wind is sort of an amalgamation of some prominent Eastern countries - Chinese facial features, Japanese clothing, Indian jewelry, etc. SO many pretty clothes. I was gonna put patterns on the kimono, but it looked a little too busy. Really, I wish I'd done better research for more clothing details, but I'll do that for the next picture, now that I know what I'm doing four years later xD
- The East Wind, from what I've read, is imagined to be a sort of mischievous spirit - so I tried to make her expression a little more impish than usual. Also, her leg is pointing in which direction the wind would blow - originating in the east and moving toward the west.
- I looked further into the mischief part of the 'east wind' and added things associated with a trickster god, like clocks and keys (in her hair) and, if I remember correctly, something about a vase of water? I can't find my research
- I've also read that crows are associated with trickster gods and mischievous mythological figures.
oh, also! Forgot about this: Part of her headdress, and the suns in the background ring, are a reference to the "land of the rising sun." You know, sun rises in the east.
Blahhh this really coulda been better if I'd done more research and not gotten lazy. But I digress! The image turned out fairly nice
Textures from CGtextures.com.
Art © Gina M. 2011.
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This is so COOL! And very much in motion, as a wind should be. A lively and troublemaking goddess/spirit, a startled crow trying to keep its footing....
I agree this works well without patterned cloth, too; the folds and pleats give a similar effect, but from motion and gravity, and patterns would just distract from that.
Very much looking forward to the other three. Even if your procrastination is as bad as mine.
I agree this works well without patterned cloth, too; the folds and pleats give a similar effect, but from motion and gravity, and patterns would just distract from that.
Very much looking forward to the other three. Even if your procrastination is as bad as mine.