The Japanese Mask Decision.

A Hard decision for me in this project was to pick a route of mask.. i have a pre-existing knowledge on the bushido and i knew for a fact i was come across a similar issue, Now my issue is that japanese culture has a split in it's armour direction. Let me explain, Visually.

  

Here's a bunch'a gorgeous hollow samurai dudes..

                   Take a long hard look at his mask..

Now thats all well and good but we all know that cultures take aspects of their stories of dragons and Foo dogs..but this has only one little hint of that on the mask.. thats on the helmet and even that is a small detail.

The rest of the mask is based on just basic patterns and the face plate itself has little representation of the old japanese tales of courage and honour the only symbol of which on the face plate is nose with the big flared nostrils.

and i want more Bigger, sexier and most importantly theatrical!

So since i was looking for theatrical i researched japanese theatrical masks

and i got all this..  

    Nice nose.. wow didn't see your see your chin yeah nice chin OOOW my eye..

         I see this when i close my eyes.. HELP ME

I couldn't care i stole an image off a company but as i was saying common japanese theater..

So left with this weird world i then moved on yet again to .. 'Japanese Mythology'

Where i was met with..

WOW SEXY!!

This is certainly an aspect of art i want to merge with my mask.. amazing i want one.

 This is not really a side i would like to move towards in my art directions but hay.. every ghetto farm gotta have a golden but on fire black with gold detail and seeming like solid gold hoof Horses with clearly enough time and ability to buy and apply gold hair dye to it's hair and main and what the hell it has a beard and chest hair and leg hair and a horn what the hell this is so clearly a unicorn well whatever it is it ain't gun'be part of my work

..

Not as sexy as the first one but this dragon seems more real.. the real side of a dragon.

kind of like super models..

So beautiful.. 

..but they do smelly shits just like the rest of us.