Pictures

[summercomfort]

Have been doing lots of things simultaneously, (lesson planning for next year, working on Chinese speech, which has magically acquired a powerpoint), one of which has been drawing pictures for Chinese School. Dad sorta asked me to draw them... er... 10 months ago? I did about a third, but then got stuck on a few pictures and therefore stopped.

Anyway, since that time, I've gotten a tablet-pc, so drawing it is a lot more fun now. The challenge with SCS pictures is that they basically have to be b/w, but my dad doesn't like large chunks of black.... There's also the issue of available space in the textbook...


is for:
山围故国周遭在，
潮打空城寂寞回。
淮水东头旧时月，
夜深还过女墙来。


For 破釜沉舟, which is a story about this general who made the soldiers break all their pots and sink their ships so that "there's no turning back."


For 鸿门宴, which is a story about the head of one army is invited to a dinner with the enemy, where they're trying to kill him while doing a sword dance, but this other guy does a counter-sword-dance, and the main guy was able to escape. Unfortunately, I only had about 1 inch of space... ::sigh::


This is a WIP for 霸王别姬, in which the character from the first story is defeated and is saying farewell to his concubine. (Yes, there's a movie called "Farewell My Concubine", which is more about the cultural revolution, the theatre business, and pseudo-gay-ness.) His horse is basically called the Black Stallion, which makes it hard to do with dad's "no large chunks of black" rule...

I kinda like the roughness of the WIP. I'll have to clean it up, but I must say that my favorite style is the woodcut style...


I need to get these done before I leave, as well as...
- schedule Hep-A shot
- complete weird tax forms for Chinese School
- sign and fax lease
- write speech and create powerpoint
- clean room and pack

Oh, and here are the 1000Kings doodles I did last week, which is on hold pending feedback.





I'm rather happy with the 3-crowns thing (one "royal", one "dark", and one "shangri-la", whatever that means). Not as elegant as the Egyptian 2-crown deal, and maybe not ephemeral enough, but me likes.



Another incomplete sketch


I dunno if she's too Sushu-style woman


Konkon

Comments

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

The Chinese name is 万王国游, so that's fine to call it "ten thousand kings." "a thousand" is just a word for "a lot," anyway.

I'll get back to you soon, I hope.

[summercomfort]

I like the Chinese name a lot more! It becomes 10KKingdoms, which is cooler, imo. Although not as mysteeerious.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

It should really be 万王之国游, which is closer to the English. But that breaks up the four character title.

yrs--
--Ben

[foreign-devilry.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean 万王国之游? I have to say that the 国游 part sounds kinda funky to me, especially ending the title with 游. I think having a king is kind of implied in the nature of a 国, as in 《三国演义》. So you could have something like 万国游传, "Legend of Travels Through the 10,000 Kingdoms," which sounds more Chinese-y. If you really want it to sound like "Land of a Thousand Kings," though, you could try something more like 万王之方 or 万王之塞. And if you want the full title, "Adventures in the Land of a Thousand Kings," I think you need a longer title: 遨游万国冒险传, or something like that. There's a long tradition of 7 character titles too, like 大红灯笼高高挂, 满城尽带黄金甲, etc.

[summercomfort]

yeah, it's a tough one, because a land with lots of kings, and not all the kings have 国. They're 王, but they're in teh same land. I kinda like 万王之塞, or maybe 万王之土, or 疆, or some such. And then there's the problem of where to put the 游记 concept. If you say 万王之土之游记, it sounds, well, uber-lame. The best solution is to come up with a term for "land", that, when directly following 万王, does not form a new noun with 王-something, (That's the problem with 王国，王土), but still makes sense. :/ Maybe 万王疆游记?

[unrequitedthai.livejournal.com]

Followed Ben's link.

I love Drug's layered crowns, and his lazy posture. Awesome.

[summercomfort]

Thanks! I'm glad you like. Ben linked me somewhere??! o.O;;

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

I just realized I never commented on these. I think the layered crowns are cool, and I was pretty happy when I saw that KonKon had stopped by and left a present.