Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fairlady with her pet snake to usher 2013



Tools
Traditional pencils, scanned and colored in Photoshop CS5 with Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.


About
The fair Celestal Maiden travel with her flying giant pet snake to usher the new year of the snake.


Year
Feb 2013


eXpressions
This art piece is create as a greeting "card" for my friends in Facebook and my neighbours. Although not much effort was put into the design of the Maiden, it's still my first attempted to draw a classical chinese maiden with ancient "wuxia" Attire. I've "modernized" it to give her a more femine and "sexier" appeal.


Due to Work commitments and time constraints I was not able ink it and touchup the picture the way I wanted. But it's still looks okay.

I was told that if maidens where dressed like during ancient times in China, they would be considered as whores.... I guess that's why I'm not into drawing classic chinese "wuxia" archetype characters.

The background was googled from the internet. Copyright goes to it's respective owner(s).