新年好

(I actually ask you view the full size version of this one because the details killed me and this tiny version shows nothing...)

Sooo Happy Lunar New Year 新年快樂 stuff yeah yada yada.

I'm so over red and gold for the next five months......................................
The only thing I like about this drawing is the gold nugget (cause I colored that first GAHAHAHA) and the 新年快樂 because I like the border... yeah...
Uhhh let's see... Let's start with the dude.
Soo I drew him first. Yeah. I don't know why he looks so stoned. And the girl looks stoned, too, but we'll talk about her later. Yeah idk man, somehow he just came out looking stoned. Don't look at the pattern on his shirt cause it's not consistent LOL;; and uhh yeah. I gave him an undercut cause I'm really liking undercuts lately.
The girl also came out looking stoned god dammit why idk.

Ehh I was gonna talk about them separately but it's not working so I'll just randomly blabber.

So I really don't like drawing traditional Chinese-y things 90% of the time. I was kind of dreading doing this, but I wanted to do something nice for my grandmother in China. So... I drew this. But because I get so bored with Chinese shit, I tried to modernize it a little. I kept iconic things like the gold nugget, red envelopes, and lanterns. But I wanted to update the two characters a little. So the dude has an undercut hairstyle and piercings (in red and gold cause y'know Chinese). I gave him tapered trousers instead of Chinese-y pants, but kept with a Chinese shirt (I don't know the real name of those things because lol I'm a terrible Chinese person) and shoes. His lantern is a little more simple than the girl's to look a little more masculine.
It was harder to modernize the girl because I guess when you think Chinese girl, you usually think very traditional? The hair is still kind of classic (like the girls you see on CNY posters with those two dumb buns on their head) and I kept her makeup sort of traditional with pink eyeshadow. She has very faint pink lip gloss (if I made it any darker it looked weird). I really wanted to update her outfit instead of giving her a typical qipao, so only the top looks like a qipao. One side is a floral design and the other is a plaid. The red sash ties into a ribbon on her back. Her skirt is the same fabric as the guy's shirt. And I gave her some black boots with a red heel. Her lantern also has more detail than the guy's.

It's not that I hate drawing Chinese things... But it does tend to bore me a lot...

Anyway, Happy Lunar New Year. Go rake in those envelopes, mo'fuckas!