Whitney - Sketchbook Post #1
For my historical figure, I'm doing Xi Shi, one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China. She was a royal concubine and her beauty was said to be very distracting and caused some political upsets. I picked her because there are some legends to her story, like "the birds would see her beauty and forget to fly, the flowers would wilt, moon would pale to her beauty, etc." that I think would be fun to play off of in my illustration. I also haven't found any exact descriptions of her physical appearance so her "beauty" will be conceptualized by me. I'm thinking I'll mostly work with mixed media and some collage.