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Friday, February 12, 2010

The Alluring Ao Dai (Traditional Vietnamese Dress)

We Vietnamese have a traditional dress for girls/women (guys can also wear it, I guess, but that's another thing altogether) called the Ao Dai, which means "long dress."  It is one of the symbols of Vietnamese culture.  They are worn for both formal occasions and for school.

I never used to be into it, and even thought that it was silly looking back in my younger days. Nowadays, I can't think of anything hotter on a Vietnamese woman!  :D  The dress is so elegant, flowy, and custom made to flatter every figure.  Younger females wear the traditional white color up through their high school years (it is still being used as the official school "uniform" in many areas--HOT!!), and after high school it is worn with bolder colors and designs.  I prefer the simplicity of the white design--which symbolizes innocence and purity.

Enough jabber; just so you know I'm not making this up, here are some pics followed by my drawings of the dress:

  

Even Miss Universe 2008, which took place in Vietnam, had all their contestants don the dress:



And here are my drawings of them; they were going to be used in my upcoming instructional book, but at the last minute I decided against it as it wasn't "action-y and superhero-y" enough:

  
 
   I will probably finish/color these for upcoming prints (probably scam my pal Jon Alderink into messing with them).

Camel Toe:
 


Horrible Tattoo of the Week (new feature!):


Sunday, February 7, 2010

Soranik Natu Sketch Video

As promised, here is the video of me sketching Natu.  This is from the same signing at Hot Comics (from my last posting) in New Hope, MN a couple of weeks ago.  I actually posted this video up on YouTube a couple nights ago, but haven't blogged about it/told many people because I'm just too lazy:



And here is the decent picture of the finished sketch:
 


New Store Appearance 2/17/10
So I have another signing coming up at Limited Edition Comics in Cedar Falls, IA on Wednesday, February 17th.  I did a signing for these guys back in November, and the turnout was great!  I signed and sketched for hours!  Great people...thanks to Rob the owner for inviting me back out!
  

Limited Edition Comics
2225 College St.
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
You can contact them at 319-273-8969 or 319-268-4094 for more info.


Camel Toes: