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secondlina) wrote2010-09-09 10:55 pm
secondlina) wrote2010-09-09 10:55 pm
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Fairy tale illustrations!
Reason #1 why I love working on Namesake :
Yes, the Fairy-tale themed illustrations :D
I kinda missed drawing these. I took a giant break for a while. Fairy tales are awesome.
Today, I was looking for reference shots of various versions of Munchkinland and I discovered there's a wannabe-real-munchkinland in China. No, really. It's a full village in China with nothing but dwarves who train to sing and dance and perform various tasks. They basically formed their own tourist attraction. And the images of this village are kinda mesmerizing.
At first I was all "cool!" and then I realized the horrible social implications around physically different people being forced, or feeling like they are forced, to go live in a place that turns them into a circus show. A high-quality circus show, but a circus show none the less. It's a bizarre situation that can be seen as good or bad depending on your angle (some of the artists seem to like being there, others think it's a symbol of abuse).
Still reminds me of what a real munchkinland might look like. And heck, I think a real munchkinland would have a lot of social abuse. Maybe not as much as in Wicked, but it does hurt to be at the bottom of the length chain.
- Isa
Yes, the Fairy-tale themed illustrations :D
I kinda missed drawing these. I took a giant break for a while. Fairy tales are awesome.
Today, I was looking for reference shots of various versions of Munchkinland and I discovered there's a wannabe-real-munchkinland in China. No, really. It's a full village in China with nothing but dwarves who train to sing and dance and perform various tasks. They basically formed their own tourist attraction. And the images of this village are kinda mesmerizing.
At first I was all "cool!" and then I realized the horrible social implications around physically different people being forced, or feeling like they are forced, to go live in a place that turns them into a circus show. A high-quality circus show, but a circus show none the less. It's a bizarre situation that can be seen as good or bad depending on your angle (some of the artists seem to like being there, others think it's a symbol of abuse).
Still reminds me of what a real munchkinland might look like. And heck, I think a real munchkinland would have a lot of social abuse. Maybe not as much as in Wicked, but it does hurt to be at the bottom of the length chain.
- Isa
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When it comes to the village... Yeah that is a tough call. On one hand it's a shame they have to live that way to get by. But on the other hand they would have equal or greater hardships trying to get by in China's competitive marketplace as well. And they have free choice to be there (At least seemingly so.) so that makes it a little better. Not that I'm saying it's right that any human being should be put on display to survive. But yeah over all it's a really tough call, definite food for thought.
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Food for though for sure. I still haven't decided what I though about beyond "good reference material"