Fairy tale illustrations!
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secondlinaReason #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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Date: 2010-09-10 03:14 am (UTC)That Dwarf village is cool looking but...yeah, the social implications of a place like that (especially in an oppressive country like China) make me uncomfortable. I don't think I could ever bring myself to visit it.
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Date: 2010-09-10 05:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's one of those weird situations where this being done elsewhere would have been completely innacceptable or something. It's really weird.