Guan Yin

Posted Mar 17, 2010, 9:14:15 PM UTC

Guan Yin (pronounced "Kwan-Yin" ), is a female boddhisattva, revered for her compassion and kindness. She is Daoist goddess too. Complicated. See wiki.

The girl with an orb is Lung Nü, granddaughter of Dragon King. Again, complicated, see wiki.

This pic was a complete experiment and has it's bugs (white faces, duh), but I like the feeling. And I loved mixing that purple!

I think I am going to paint her again anyway, so I guess I will sort it out by then.

Comments

Lilimayhem
Mar 18, 2010, 1:52:18 PM UTC
This is interesting! I like the overall composition...I like how she seems to be slowly coming into some sort of life, slowly coming solid.
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- annathecrow
  Mar 21, 2010, 1:08:11 PM UTC
  Thanks, that was basically what I wanted to achieve! ^v^
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Sleyf
Mar 18, 2010, 5:28:03 AM UTC
I love this style a lot, and I do like the way you made her ethereal and the colours too, it's very nice, it sort of reminds me of that batique (or however you spell it) style of using wax to mask colour. It's very nice though you should continue with the style!
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- annathecrow
  Mar 21, 2010, 1:06:21 PM UTC
  Thanks. When you say it, it really looks like that wax-batique (I can't spell it either ).
  I was thinking about doing another picture like this, but I HAVE TO do the faces differently this time. They just look like covered with skin lotion or something. >.>
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  Sleyf
  May 2, 2010, 10:14:44 AM UTC
  Lmao! I hadn't noticed that but you know what they say, practice makes perfect, so after a few more you'll figure out how to do the faces without the lotion effect
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