Folk story from back home

Goha (name of folk story character) has more than one story and is told to all the generations over and over again.

Basically it is a regular Egyptian peasant in a galabeya (dress for men) and his purpose in life is to make many mistakes in life so people can set examples from him.

I didn't find many stories on line but here is one that I found.
Once Goha was sitting under a hazel-nut tree, and he began to wonder why God let a big tree give forth small nuts while he let the watermelon, so much bigger than a hazel-nut, have a small branch which cannot carry it. From so much thinking Goha fell asleep. Then he suddenly awoke by a hazel-nut which had fallen on his head. He said, “Praise be to God. My lord, I have understood your wisdom that this big tree doesn’t give forth watermelon. (Had it done so, that) would have been the end of me."


Many of his stories now are accompanied with sayings. Like for example the most famous one is "where is your ear from Goha". This saying means not literally where is your ear from but rather that one has to remember that there is an ear closer to your hand than the other. It is a metaphor for life that we don't take the long road when the short one will make us reach the same goal faster. 

Inspiring images for taxonomy

The first image and the last image are the main inspiration to the idea. 

Photo reference for taxonomy

This is how I will do the fighting parts in taxonomy. 

Trying background styles for taxonomy

More to come 

Animation test for drip, slap, boing

I got a movie for a flower growing from youtube and I took the key frames and put them in one video. Then I tried to trace over them again to get the feel sort of how I will animate. I am testing the animation to also see which art look I should go through and which will look better in the animation in the end.

Art work test for drip, slap, boing

This is the first test I will make a test that looks more realistic and see which is better. Most probably the more realistic one I will do it traditional.

These are different styles than the one I tried in the morning. I also tried to do the flower realistic a little bit in pastel and in took forever. I need to scan it, but anyways I don't think that the colors came out strong on paper cause its pastel and it already is pail. Colors are important to me. I will when I decide the style than put more details like shading and so on.

After I tried traditional I don't think it works at all here is the sample.

Trying art work for taxonomy again

I know it has multiple view points at this moment, but I was trying a little bit the style of drawing. The idea to make the character to look soot out is from the previous picture I mentioned. I'm thinking that since the main attention is from the kids and how they are seeing the adults I would draw it in a primitive childish style. What I don't know is f I did it in that style would that still make the adults want to see it.

Note to self take pictures at multiple view points to know how it should look.