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Felt like kicking back and doing some spontaneous me-art for a bit.

I have always felt some kind of connection with tigers as a species, being born in good old '86 and growing up in an Asian society where there's more awareness of the Eastern zodiac (not everyone believes in it, per se, but everyone pretty much is aware of what animal they are and whatnot). Long before sighthounds and whippets I was running about the garden on all-fours pretending to be a tiger. I know now it's much more complicated than just your birth year, really, but what the hey, I was happy. In ancient China Tiger girls were thought to be bad luck because of the Tiger's headstrong and passionate nature, so I've always thought it was cool that I was one '86 in Singapore was known to be the year the birth rate was especially low because nobody wanted a Tiger baby, and it shot back up two years later (my brother's birth year) because everyone wanted a Dragon (Dragon sons are like the ULTIMATE or something). So my parents got the short and long ends of the stick, I suppose you might say xD Go figure.

So ANYWAY, what with Chinese New Year coming up and all (I know it's the year of the dog, but I'll be danged if I'm waiting another four years to upload this) I decided to do a picture of my zodiac animal. '86 is the year of the Fire Tiger, so I thought I'd be more specific and add the element to it as well. And I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Her name is Huohu (say HWORH-hu. I wince at the bastardized phonetics but if I hear people calling her Hohoo or something I'll yell), and I think she represents an inner strength sort of part of me. It sounds prettier in Japanese of course - Ka-Tora if I'm not wrong - but I'm leaving it in Mandarin because DANGIT THE CHINESE WERE HERE FIRST. Someday I'll put up a cel-coloured pic of her just to make her colours more clear and such.

Huohu © Shelley L.

Description
Felt like kicking back and doing some spontaneous me-art for a bit.

I have always felt some kind of connection with tigers as a species, being born in good old '86 and growing up in an Asian society where there's more awareness of the Eastern zodiac (not everyone believes in it, per se, but everyone pretty much is aware of what animal they are and whatnot). Long before sighthounds and whippets I was running about the garden on all-fours pretending to be a tiger. I know now it's much more complicated than just your birth year, really, but what the hey, I was happy. In ancient China Tiger girls were thought to be bad luck because of the Tiger's headstrong and passionate nature, so I've always thought it was cool that I was one '86 in Singapore was known to be the year the birth rate was especially low because nobody wanted a Tiger baby, and it shot back up two years later (my brother's birth year) because everyone wanted a Dragon (Dragon sons are like the ULTIMATE or something). So my parents got the short and long ends of the stick, I suppose you might say xD Go figure.

So ANYWAY, what with Chinese New Year coming up and all (I know it's the year of the dog, but I'll be danged if I'm waiting another four years to upload this) I decided to do a picture of my zodiac animal. '86 is the year of the Fire Tiger, so I thought I'd be more specific and add the element to it as well. And I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Her name is Huohu (say HWORH-hu. I wince at the bastardized phonetics but if I hear people calling her Hohoo or something I'll yell), and I think she represents an inner strength sort of part of me. It sounds prettier in Japanese of course - Ka-Tora if I'm not wrong - but I'm leaving it in Mandarin because DANGIT THE CHINESE WERE HERE FIRST. Someday I'll put up a cel-coloured pic of her just to make her colours more clear and such.

Huohu © Shelley L.