Chinese paper cutting and, some hand practice

First month of school I did Chinese paper cutting in my multi-cultural art class, I chose a dragon because people already took everything else :x

This was my image from THE INTERNET LOL and as you can see, it's hard to tell what anything is and ... don't mind that lightbox info on the bottom I was interested in one >>

Done on newsprint or whatever, with pencil and not traced in anyway whatsoever, did it all by hand while glancing at my original reference XD
I retraced it about 4-5 times, everything on it and this ironically took the longest out of the whole project.


Graphite was put on the back of that newsprint paper, and I redrew it again in order to transfer it to the blue paper I chose for the actual cutting. Sad thing is, it was barely visible because of the dark blue paper so I traced it YET AGAIN.
Afterwards it was cutting with an ex-acto knife or whatever those are, I don't know how to spell them haha. Yeah, every one of those scales were cut out, surprisingly it only took 2-3 days. I did mess up at the end because I was running out of time and rushing though, so the bottom right is ugly. Then I glued it to the white piece of paper.
Yeah it doesn't look like much but I'm pretty proud of this thing, before I did it I wasn't even expecting to be able to draw that dragon. XD (Though I had to take creative liberties on it because you couldn't see anything.)

Oh yeah I did these two hands from plaster models we looked at for reference in beginning paint and draw.

First one I did and I hate it now that I look back on it, so chunky looking.

I like this one a lot better


And my typing feels bigger than the actual pictures like usual so I'm going to stick some doodling I did in class :x



I can't draw the fingers if they're straight :S

Those are awesome. And your skills in drawing hands are amazing.

this is all awesone indeed o.O
don't know were to start commenting but it all rocks!!!

And amazing hands to.
Soverydetailed!!!!
wooo i can't say with words how awesome all this is x.X

Get'cho hands off Bacteriophage!

Heh, anyway, it's awesome. Better than I could do in like, ever.

um salad

when your pictures are really big like that, it's a good idea to link to them and not shove them in the post with text intercoursed in it like panda sex

Since you already showed me all this on AIM I guess that's all I have with me to say

these kick ass

<3 Chinese dragons.

The fingers on the hand holding the crystal... iono. They're either small or superfat. D:

Damn, I was just thinkin' that.

I don't like linking them because people are always too lazy to click, and at the same time I forgot to resize them so ...

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get out of my topics if you're going to continue to use terms like "panda sex"