NOTES:
Before, you read on about more facts of the Qilin & Dujiao Shou, you might like to see afew sketches and doodles of some of the Beasts which I've been referring to.
You might like to give it a try yourself to draw afew of these cretures. So here are afew examples to help you...
What you might need to know about them:
In most Traditional Chinese Art, the artists depict the Qilin as having thick hair which flows upward defying gravity, witch gives them a super natural or Heavenly feeling to their great power.
They are usually illustrated with cloven hooves. Tails may vary, yet they usually have beards and mustaches of varying lengths. They often have sprouts or tufts of hair on the fetlocks, arround the hooves, the back legs, and often either on the breast or the forelegs' "armpits".
Some have fin-like strucktures, featherlike structures, and whispy things growing from the body.
As some are depicted as gentle and sweet, others are depicted with ferosciously with large fangs and growling.
As you can see many of these sketches vary in their looks, as their are no real wrong ways in which to draw them. Be as creative as you like.
In General, Most Chinese Traditional artists draw these creatures flatt in profile, and ocasionally Head-on. But, in my sketches I've presented them with a bit more 3rd Dimension, with a touch of foreshortening. Yet, I've added a dash of my drawing style in their. |
