For this assignment, I first thought about what I would associate Asia with. I thought of the ancient performance arts and realized that so many Asian cultures have their own versions of it. The Chinese have the Chinese opera or "wayang" as many of us know it. The Indonesians have the wayang kulit, the Japanese have "noh" etc. This led me to focus on the masks that are employed in all these theatrical performances.
I tend used bright, almost neon colours to colour the mask to convey the notion of "colourful asia". I experimented with a white or grey background but they did not make the colours of the masks pop as much, thus settling on a black background in the end. All this helped to bring together the end product, " faces of colourful asia".
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