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2nd submission to Sesskag contest: "Fairy Tale Twist"
The tale here isn't exactly fairy. It's a revenge story from old China. The main character is the son of a governor, whose family is massacred by a gang of assassins because they happened to hold a treasure. The son escaped death on mere luck and tried to seek revenge on the assassins who killed his family.
The son seeked out a famed doctor and had his face transfigured into a new one so that he could pursue his enemy in secret. he looked far and hard and after many years arrived at the Southern citadel. There, he met a woman, fell in love with her and married her.
Ironically, he woman he loved was actually one of the assassins. After many years of bloodshed and killing, the assassin regretted her crimes and wanted to live a normal life. She too found the same doctor and got her new face from him.
These two lived with each other as husband and wife for many years until the truth came out.
This was actually a pretty mediocore story in the ghost story stapples of China, but funnily, this year, John Woo decided to make it into a movie (named Reign of Assassins, starring Michelle Yeoh). I went to see it and got a big surprise. The movie changed many aspects of the original story, giving soul and depth to the characters and really made me think about it. It also incorporated many other Chinese folktales ( The killing bride, death powder, one of the many myths of the Bhodi who visitted China, etc...)
The best part of it, imo, was the incorporation of a Buddhist love story into the plot. The story is about Buddha's disciple who fell in love with a beautiful woman. Buddha asked him:
"How much do you love her?"
And the disciple answered:
"I would turn into a stone bridge and endure five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, and five hundred years of rain. I would only ask that she walk over that bridge."
This story within a story became the emotional focal point of the movie and changed the ending. Instead of the tragic ending, the couple managed to overcome their grudge and their bloody past.
A revenge story became a love story. An old tale made new.
I decided that I liked it so much that I wanted to draw something inspired by it.
The above scene is a depiction of their marriage: Sesshomaru wearing Inuyasha mask and Kagome wearing Kikyo mask. All the things that they built together were lies, but somehow their feeling for each other remained the only truthful thing. That's why Sess is reaching out for Kagome, almost like he's about to take off her mask, but also like he's afraid. What's behind it? He doesn't know. the future? Nothing?
The red sash between them is an old Asian symbol of marriage and love.
This is my 3rd pic so far that I painted using a tablet (it cost about 60 % more than the original price because I live in Thailand. God damn! Give us a break here Wacom and tax institutions!), and I feel like I'm slowly getting the hang of it.
The tale here isn't exactly fairy. It's a revenge story from old China. The main character is the son of a governor, whose family is massacred by a gang of assassins because they happened to hold a treasure. The son escaped death on mere luck and tried to seek revenge on the assassins who killed his family.
The son seeked out a famed doctor and had his face transfigured into a new one so that he could pursue his enemy in secret. he looked far and hard and after many years arrived at the Southern citadel. There, he met a woman, fell in love with her and married her.
Ironically, he woman he loved was actually one of the assassins. After many years of bloodshed and killing, the assassin regretted her crimes and wanted to live a normal life. She too found the same doctor and got her new face from him.
These two lived with each other as husband and wife for many years until the truth came out.
This was actually a pretty mediocore story in the ghost story stapples of China, but funnily, this year, John Woo decided to make it into a movie (named Reign of Assassins, starring Michelle Yeoh). I went to see it and got a big surprise. The movie changed many aspects of the original story, giving soul and depth to the characters and really made me think about it. It also incorporated many other Chinese folktales ( The killing bride, death powder, one of the many myths of the Bhodi who visitted China, etc...)
The best part of it, imo, was the incorporation of a Buddhist love story into the plot. The story is about Buddha's disciple who fell in love with a beautiful woman. Buddha asked him:
"How much do you love her?"
And the disciple answered:
"I would turn into a stone bridge and endure five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, and five hundred years of rain. I would only ask that she walk over that bridge."
This story within a story became the emotional focal point of the movie and changed the ending. Instead of the tragic ending, the couple managed to overcome their grudge and their bloody past.
A revenge story became a love story. An old tale made new.
I decided that I liked it so much that I wanted to draw something inspired by it.
The above scene is a depiction of their marriage: Sesshomaru wearing Inuyasha mask and Kagome wearing Kikyo mask. All the things that they built together were lies, but somehow their feeling for each other remained the only truthful thing. That's why Sess is reaching out for Kagome, almost like he's about to take off her mask, but also like he's afraid. What's behind it? He doesn't know. the future? Nothing?
The red sash between them is an old Asian symbol of marriage and love.
This is my 3rd pic so far that I painted using a tablet (it cost about 60 % more than the original price because I live in Thailand. God damn! Give us a break here Wacom and tax institutions!), and I feel like I'm slowly getting the hang of it.
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26.01.2011 05:13:02
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