Bacon and magical girls

So bacon happens to be my favorite breakfast meat. I enjoy turkey and beef bacon too. Luckily my mom bought bacon today which I will have tomorrow with eggs in some fashion (I like eggs more than bacon).

Awhile ago I made a joke on facebook saying "If i were a magical girl my attack would involve bacon bits" which resulted in this:

So now you know what I look like at least. Check my bacon rose whip.

12 Dancing Princesses: Rooster, Dog, Pig

Ironically, these are my least favorite animals of the Chinese zodiac, but they are the signs of my dad, mother, and sister. Also ironic because we just finished filling out the paper work for me and my sister's therapy sessions that will start tomorrow. Whoopie~   (Nothing serious)

For the rooster I decided to reference Aztec warrior women, with their beautiful head dresses and bodacious bodies. This sister might have the least clothing but the most accessories, as if she decorates her body like a nest. Overall she has a Afro-Latina appearance.

Dog was really hard. What does a dog woman look like? What is her body type? Someone I managed to think of Princess Diana, so I referenced British Royalty. Then I also considered since dogs are domesticated wolves, why not do a red riding hood theme as well? So basically dog sister is Princess Diana: Were-Wolf Hunter. I have no regrets.

Finally pig. Curvy and juicy, and I wanted to reference pin-ups. This sister is of African decent so the hair styling is that of 1950s African-American women.

Rooster sister silhouettes

Rooster sister hair cocncept

Dog sister silhouettes

Dog sister hair concept

Pig sister silhouette

Pig sister hair concept

So the next step is to either do environment sketches. The ambitious side of me wants to create a chamber per princess, but it seems like they should share a space to reveal the aftermath of their night escapades. However I still want to create their own space for their final illustrations.  So right now Im considering doing the following environments:  The kings throne room, the princess chambers, the underground tunnel, the forest, the battle arena. (necessary) The extra rooms: Library, the tropical bird house, the garden, the bath, hallways.

The other step may be to start with rat and develop some more.

12 Dancing Princesses: Horse, Goat, Monkey

Thus far I've done the first six of the Chinese zodiac, and I must say they were easy to concept, since I had an idea of how to personify their animals. For instance, snake is thin, sexy, with sultry eyes, and skintight revealing clothes. However, she doesn't wear heels, but accents her wrist and ankles with jewelry. Because I had such precise descriptions for the first six, it was hard to break out an innovate interesting silhouettes.

Horse, goat, and monkey are the most probable wayI would approach character design for a client. First you have to find inspiring references (which I do for any design, but these went beyond the initial animal idea)

For horse, all I knew was that the hair would be in a ponytail, which reminding me of a warrior princess. I also thought of the elegance of equestrian life. A few years ago Dior did and equestrian themed runway so I pulled looks and silhouettes from there.

I am pretty sure I'd love to see horse princess in a victorian high-class plaid dress with a fabulous puffed sleeve jacket. However her personality is more of a free spirit "Wild horse" Her name may mean spirit. I don't want her to have a haughtiness. Dragon and snake can handle that area.

Also I must say models are perfect horse reference. They clop down the runway very well.
Lolita fashion has a victorian genre (as well as steampunk-victorian). I actually own the outfit with the cage hoop skirt.

Horse Sister Silhouette

Horse Sister Hair Concept

So next was goat, which is my sign. I'm a metal goat (1991) Goat is one of the sister of African decent and I wanted her to have short wholly hair. That's pretty much it. Her silhouette and costuming is far from anything interesting, and may be done based on what's missing from the other sisters. Goats do remind of gypsies but I really didn't want to go there for inspiration. I tried researching tribal girls, but clothing wise, nothing exciting came up. The purple and cream of her color pallet is based on Disney's Esmeralda (that's as much gypsy as I will go)

Goat Sister Silhouette

Goat Sister Hair Concept

I was initially uninspired to do Monkey, because it is one of my least favorites, until I thought of Goku (DBZ) and Goku (Saiyuki) based on the story Journey to the West. In Journey to the West, Son Goku is the Monkey King with a nyobo. This is an archetype, (there are several goku characters with monkey feature in anime and manga). The nyobo staff they carry and their tendency towards a red to yellow analogous color scheme reminded me of the Air nomads from Avatar, so that silhouette was also inspired in the design concept.

Monkey Sister Silhouette

Monkey Sister Hair Concept

Next will be Rooster, Dog, and Pig (which are correspondingly the signs of my dad, mom, and sister. My brother is an ox)

12 Dancing Princesses: Rabbit, Dragon, Snake

So far for the pan-asian, and African take on the Twelve Dancing Princesses, I've established the following.
Rat- Chinese/Korean aesthetic (pale skin)
Ox- African (no tribe reference yet)
Tiger- Chinese (tan)
Rabbit- Japanese/ African
Dragon- Chinese/Malaysian
Snake- South Indian

The princesses have different mothers. I would like possibly only two mother queens, with six sister being part Asian, and the other six being African. The King's ethnicity won't come into play until the daughters are finished.

Rabbit Sister Silhouette

Rabbit Sister Hair Concept

Dragon Sister Silhouette

Dragon Sister Hair Concept

Snake Sister Silhouette

Snake Sister Hair Concept

Next up are horse, goat (my sign), and monkey.