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A dog with an assortment of Sinic Lunar New Year decorations.
As Lunar New Year is drawing near, I decided to draw something in the theme of it.
As Lunar New Year is drawing near, I decided to draw something in the theme of it.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
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File Size 888.2 kB
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I had to look up Sinic, since I was not familiar with that word. It looks like it's related to the Sinosphere, which makes sense, the lunar new year is celebrated by a few cultures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosphere
Sure, in the etymological sense.
I added the qualifier sinic because I thought people might confuse the decoration to be Korean, due to my ethnicity; we Koreans don't have tradition of new year flower decoration. I just enjoy depicting certain Chinese items and traditions because I happened to have lived in Shanghai for a few years when I was little, and developed fondness for them.
I added the qualifier sinic because I thought people might confuse the decoration to be Korean, due to my ethnicity; we Koreans don't have tradition of new year flower decoration. I just enjoy depicting certain Chinese items and traditions because I happened to have lived in Shanghai for a few years when I was little, and developed fondness for them.
I'd say the most essential appeal to me was simply the "intriguingly foreign" (from my perspective as a Westerner) and presumably "older times" appearance of the character's clothes. Granted, for all I know he could be a "modern" person wearing them for a special, traditional occasion, but my basic impression is of a character from the East/Middle East some time in the past.
I'm a fantasy-adventure writer, and when that's combined with my cultural generalities, I of course gravitate a lot toward various European-inspired aesthetics and such to inspire a fair amount of my setting, but like a number of other fantasy settings out there, that isn't all there is to the world, and I like finding art that's about other cultures, be they Eastern, Middle-Eastern, or whatever else, that might help inspire something for the other places in my world.
Your gallery has a good number of pieces that fit the bill for me. They may not always be "fantasy" in however much of a sense, but I feel that the historical side of them still make them interesting and inspiring for me in that capacity. Also, my setting is inhabited by "wolf people," so your gallery can relate to my interests even more due to that. :D
And your previous avatar just seemed like a good example of that sort of stuff that appealed to me for inspiring variety.
Even all that aside, I'd say I simply like the look of the character, and his gaze in particular. Is he deep in thought and staring at nothing in particular, or is he looking quite intently at something off in the distance?
I'm a fantasy-adventure writer, and when that's combined with my cultural generalities, I of course gravitate a lot toward various European-inspired aesthetics and such to inspire a fair amount of my setting, but like a number of other fantasy settings out there, that isn't all there is to the world, and I like finding art that's about other cultures, be they Eastern, Middle-Eastern, or whatever else, that might help inspire something for the other places in my world.
Your gallery has a good number of pieces that fit the bill for me. They may not always be "fantasy" in however much of a sense, but I feel that the historical side of them still make them interesting and inspiring for me in that capacity. Also, my setting is inhabited by "wolf people," so your gallery can relate to my interests even more due to that. :D
And your previous avatar just seemed like a good example of that sort of stuff that appealed to me for inspiring variety.
Even all that aside, I'd say I simply like the look of the character, and his gaze in particular. Is he deep in thought and staring at nothing in particular, or is he looking quite intently at something off in the distance?
The words are 福, fortune, and 吉, auspiciousness. The object held by the character is ruyi.
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