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one does not merely speed paint first you must learn and study the fundamentals anatomy lighting perspective,life and nature
then apply years of practice to the subjects doing nature study study with model ,oil ,paint and after all that
, then once mastered you buy a tablet then draw like crazy cuz ya know the fundamentals
soo no need to worry any more
then apply years of practice to the subjects doing nature study study with model ,oil ,paint and after all that
, then once mastered you buy a tablet then draw like crazy cuz ya know the fundamentals
soo no need to worry any more
Very nice art! (Chuckles) "No man is an island" as poet and cleric John Donne said...but IF a man were an island, I wouldn't put it past Beijing to claim it as historical territorial waters!!!<g>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation_XVII (John Donne)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation_XVII (John Donne)
O____o wow Kenket, you weren't kidding with speedpaint. That was fast! And also amazingly gorgeous!
Clothing is hanfu :) It's traditional Chinese clothing before the Manchurians invaded in 1644 and executed the Han Chinese who didn't adopt the queue haircut and Manchu style. Hanfu spread out of China during the Tang dynasty and developed into it's own culture in Japan as the kimono and in Korea as the hanbok.
It is the Li River ^___^
Clothing is hanfu :) It's traditional Chinese clothing before the Manchurians invaded in 1644 and executed the Han Chinese who didn't adopt the queue haircut and Manchu style. Hanfu spread out of China during the Tang dynasty and developed into it's own culture in Japan as the kimono and in Korea as the hanbok.
It is the Li River ^___^
I like ancient clothes and aesthetics, back when guys had long hair and long skirts/tunics. The 12th century bliauts in Europe remind me very much of hanfu, kimono, and hanbok. About the only surviving Western clothing traditions we have left from those times are the tail coats for morning dress and evening dress white tie events. Every now and then, you'll see a guy in an overcoat or trench coat. Some people still wear kilts, but they catch a lot of crap for wearing them (and apparently many people think it's okay to just walk up and lift up a guy's kilt). For the most part, "not pants = female" has become the standard.
I have the material to make a shendyt (I want to type it S:nD:wt like in Jsesh) type Old Kingdom kilt. I haven't figured out how I want to do the pleats and embroidery. I've been practicing hand embroidering hieroglyphs and uraei. I'm hoping to have a Bocksten type four-gore tunic made by Beltaine too. Not that I'd wear both at the same time. =^.^=
I'm glad there are more people trying to revive the past. The hanfu lineage has been extinct since 1644 and in the early 2000's, there was a movement to revive it through researching historical texts and paintings. There's also a movement to revive ancient European wear, and also "western martial arts" of sword and polearm fighting and armors, which get a horribly bad reputation in the world of martial arts and by laypeople. Guys reviving stuff like the Talhoffer fechtbuch fight manual, I wouldn't want to mess with them!
People (even some historians!) really think European swords weighed 10-20lbs and people simply bashed each other in the face with them like clubs when in fact typical swords weighed 2.5 to 3lbs, and it was the well-preserved "parade swords" that had such heft and mass for showing off. The Chinese had a similar historical misinterpretation with the yanyue dao polearms where super heavy "military exam" versions survived and people really believed such pole arms were 20+ pounds. You could never swing such a thing on the battlefield and real versions weighed 3-5lbs. I think certain historians being pure scholars or academics are missing the bigger part of the picture when they come up with their hypothesis.
Had to look up shendyt, but those are very stylish and elaborate. I'm surprised it's fairly obscure. You don't even get any links when you plug it into FA's search engine. It looks like you can throw it right into a modern fashion show. It's very cool to see Western and Eastern ancient culture had similar aesthetics. The Chinese had similar "loincloth" accessories called bixi. Unfortunately tailoring and seamstress work seems to be a dying trade but folks on the Internet seem to have a lot of DIY resources and upload patterns and videos for various techniques. The information is out there, thankfully, but it needs to be gathered and organized. Hopefully you can find the information and resources you need to complete your projects!
People (even some historians!) really think European swords weighed 10-20lbs and people simply bashed each other in the face with them like clubs when in fact typical swords weighed 2.5 to 3lbs, and it was the well-preserved "parade swords" that had such heft and mass for showing off. The Chinese had a similar historical misinterpretation with the yanyue dao polearms where super heavy "military exam" versions survived and people really believed such pole arms were 20+ pounds. You could never swing such a thing on the battlefield and real versions weighed 3-5lbs. I think certain historians being pure scholars or academics are missing the bigger part of the picture when they come up with their hypothesis.
Had to look up shendyt, but those are very stylish and elaborate. I'm surprised it's fairly obscure. You don't even get any links when you plug it into FA's search engine. It looks like you can throw it right into a modern fashion show. It's very cool to see Western and Eastern ancient culture had similar aesthetics. The Chinese had similar "loincloth" accessories called bixi. Unfortunately tailoring and seamstress work seems to be a dying trade but folks on the Internet seem to have a lot of DIY resources and upload patterns and videos for various techniques. The information is out there, thankfully, but it needs to be gathered and organized. Hopefully you can find the information and resources you need to complete your projects!
So many ideas about the past are just completely wrong and/or stupid. Lots of those seem to date to the Renaissance and especially the Victorian period as far as I can tell. It isn't just in the realm of martial arts.
I've yet to see resources really gathered together like that, much less a comprehensive book on it or something.
There are some decent references for some Egyptian stuff online. This site steals, err, references a great little book on historical costumes printed in 1920 that's available on Archive.org.
http://www.fashion-era.com/ancient_.....tume/index.htm
I have tons of other references from art and sculptures that show things in great detail. Kilts from the Middle Kingdom look stupidly bulky in funerary art and most people don't realize that they absolutely weren't for ordinary wear. The clothes on that site were probably more like ordinary clothes. Royal kilts also became incredibly elaborate in the New Kingdom and late period. The 'Warrior King' on that site shows the least of the fancy raiment. Rameses III seems to have been a super fashion plate until his guards cut his throat.
I've yet to see resources really gathered together like that, much less a comprehensive book on it or something.
There are some decent references for some Egyptian stuff online. This site steals, err, references a great little book on historical costumes printed in 1920 that's available on Archive.org.
http://www.fashion-era.com/ancient_.....tume/index.htm
I have tons of other references from art and sculptures that show things in great detail. Kilts from the Middle Kingdom look stupidly bulky in funerary art and most people don't realize that they absolutely weren't for ordinary wear. The clothes on that site were probably more like ordinary clothes. Royal kilts also became incredibly elaborate in the New Kingdom and late period. The 'Warrior King' on that site shows the least of the fancy raiment. Rameses III seems to have been a super fashion plate until his guards cut his throat.
That's what happens when you get pure academics speculating on the past with the wrong set of assumptions that come from the modern world. Building false assumptions upon false assumptions and you play a crazy game of telephone where the end results bears little to historical accuracy. I see a lot of assumptions that pottery or whatnot depicted normal everyday wear. Sorry, but people aren't buying expensive painted pottery from the merchant that shows some lady in rags or normal clothes. We don't hold fashion shows today to immortalize jeans and t-shirts, so academics can be a little out of touch with reality sometimes. I figure if they can be so wrong on various martial arts and weapons, then the same kinds of mistakes are being made in many other areas of history.
I am thinking many of those early misinterpretations of history are due to "we're more sophisticated than our rock-throwing ancestors" so people added bias to justify their own ideas. People haven't really changed that much biologically for tens of thousands of years. The idea that people from 1000 years ago somehow being more inherently stupid or lacking the ability for higher thought or intellectualism is kind of insulting to the study of biology or humanity itself.
That is a fun resource you linked! I will poke around and learn some new stuff :) It's a shame set and costume designers for movies tend to take a lot of artistic liberties when the historically-accurate stuff looks just as good, if not better because there are some universal design aspects/ratios/concepts of what looks good. I see this a lot in wuxia movies where the armor looks absolutely horrible (I guess it looks cool to the layperson). It is pretty epic when you look at the royalty of various cultures and how they keep trying to out-elaborate each other on clothes to visually show their wealth and power. It usually ends up looking pretty silly, and I'd imagine it was pretty miserable to wear all those baubles and bits.
I am thinking many of those early misinterpretations of history are due to "we're more sophisticated than our rock-throwing ancestors" so people added bias to justify their own ideas. People haven't really changed that much biologically for tens of thousands of years. The idea that people from 1000 years ago somehow being more inherently stupid or lacking the ability for higher thought or intellectualism is kind of insulting to the study of biology or humanity itself.
That is a fun resource you linked! I will poke around and learn some new stuff :) It's a shame set and costume designers for movies tend to take a lot of artistic liberties when the historically-accurate stuff looks just as good, if not better because there are some universal design aspects/ratios/concepts of what looks good. I see this a lot in wuxia movies where the armor looks absolutely horrible (I guess it looks cool to the layperson). It is pretty epic when you look at the royalty of various cultures and how they keep trying to out-elaborate each other on clothes to visually show their wealth and power. It usually ends up looking pretty silly, and I'd imagine it was pretty miserable to wear all those baubles and bits.
Oh my.... This reminds me of that cruise down the Li river my family and I took when we traveled to Guilin for vacation in the winter of.... eh.... 1998 or 1999. While I might be fuzzy about date, I still can remember those beautiful stands of bamboo by the banks, Japanese bananas on the limestone pillars, and that tasty fried freshwater shrimp we ate for lunch....
I wish I could visit there once more someday.
I wish I could visit there once more someday.
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