Teaching is good. I learn so many new things (or relearn) by doing it and get new ideas and influences in my art. Take the manga; I learn more and more about Japanese culture and art, I take up working with ink again - and I get the impulse to teach my watercolour students about Japanese/Chinese ink paintings.The latest thing for me is chibi - which in Japanese means short person or small child. In anime (animated manga) chibis are very often cute little characters with big heads and small bodies.
I can't resist - suddenly I spend time - more than I need for the manga class - in my studio working on my own little chibi characters ... smiling ...
at Willem Kerseboom you can find a lot of really good Chinese art obviously influenced by chibis: Han Yajuan, Yin Jun, Zhang Zui and the famous Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese). More about him at Wikipedia.
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It's great to know about the chibis. Could you be good at everything? I'm impressed, wow! :)
Sis...
Reminds me of how you used to draw when you were about 10. Oh, how impressed I was... Maybe you should find some of those cartoons just for fun to compare... They had huge eyes too.
Kisses,
Helene
I'll have to locate them then, Sis. Do you have a clue where they could be?
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