I’m going to take a moment here to brag about my disgustingly talented brother. Here’s a little video showing off his original design: the Zoanoid Dragon (version 2)!
Shuki has been doing origami for around 15 years now, and started designing his own models since he was nine years old! Version 2 of the Zoanoid Dragon is his most recent creation.
Steps: pencil, black ink, erase, watercolors, wet the paper, drip paint, draw in petals and flowers.
I was thinking of lots of things with this one: the initial idea was that of holding something so tight – in this case imagine an excruciatingly cute little palm-sized creature – so tight – that you crush it. Gross, right? But then in the sketching phase instead of clasping her hands together I had her form two separate fists, so this no longer works unless she was holding two (!) excruciatingly cute little critters. So, basically, this piece is about desire, and pain; wanting something so bad that you actually destroy it.
The title, “Bleed”, references both the pink trickle down her arms, and the painting process of wet-on-wet watercolors, literally dripping ink onto the paper and watching the colors run.
Coming back to the drawing after taking a break, it occurs to me that it also looks as if she just dominated in a street fight, which uh, works for me too and is equally bad-ass. This girl can beat you up sitting down! The fist is such a charged gesture.
The movie Norwegian Wood, directed by Tran Ahn Hung and based off of Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel, is releasing this March 11, and dontpaniconline.com is hosting a movie poster contest, so here is my contribution:
I don’t ask this too often, but please vote for me (if you like it, of course)!
