Pieces for Giant Robot’s “Mcmintea Challenge” show. It was a show themed
Pieces for Giant Robot’s “Mcmintea Challenge” show. It was a show themed after my friend Maggie’s #mcminteachallenge. There were many fun theme such as “”Grayscale”, “Fauna/Flora”, “5 favorite things in 1 image”, “Summertime” and etc … I ended up choosing “Something Blue“. Thought about drawing wedding veil lace with a lot of details but I was more fascinated with traditional Japanese wedding gift in Edo period. I focused on “Kai-Awase”, a shell matching games where you have to look for perfect match shells - which was often given as part of woman’s dowry. The clamshells was beautifully-painted with various daily scenes of Heian period, often decorated with gold designs. Receiving a kai-awase as a marriage gift was considered good luck, as the joining of clams symbolized the joining of individuals in marriage.For the pieces, I incorporated their dowry with beauty tools, a kai-awase box ( in their hands ) and added fox’s wedding ( which is similar to “monkey’s wedding” in English ) ukiyo-e in the background. Also I made the pieces facing each other like Kai-Awase and named it “Jigai” and “Dashigai” ( the names of the shell faces). I originally wanted to draw both of them as Fu-jin god ( Wind god ) for the blueness but I thought that would be too much, so I just took some elements ( like his cape and leopard pattern socks ) and sneaked in to the apparel design. Next time I would like to be able to do more further research and incorporate more information in the drawings. Listening to : ShimaG - Crazy Beast -- source link
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