I had a 1930s silk smoking jacket for years that eventually sort of rotted away. It was black with stylized gold Chinese bats on it and I thought it was the best thing ever. After I had to dispose of it I found myself wanting to reproduce the bat images but I didn't have any photos to work from. I thought the I had kept a swatch but if I did it's disappeared. The one photo of me in it is too far away to see any details. So every now and then I search the internet to see if anyone else had a similar jacket I could use for reference. Nope. So I decided to look at Chinese art and art inspired by Chinese art and make a series of drawings that might scratch this itch to reproduce these lucky creatures.
I didn't really succeed, so much time has gone by I have only impressions left of what I wanted to draw. That said, I am still happy with the work and I'm sure these will be eventually useful somewhere. Maybe wallpaper in an animation or I would love to have embroidered versions added to a tuque or the top of some knitted gloves. I might add more details at some point and take them away from solely silhouetted images to something more decorative.
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