Thursday, February 25, 2016

琉璃璧 - 刻纹 Chinese Pattern for Jade

56th day of 2016.

Actually this is a sequel to the Circular Jade design for my Chinese character. After getting some basic shapes, now to the more detail design. Cloud motifs and standard indentation has their own characteristic. I would like those kind of 'tidy' small texture compare to huge big motif design. So to make one of the feature works.

As mentioned in 琉璃璧 Circular Jade, the character has 2 circular jewellery, one made of gold and one made of jade. Gold as everyone knows is a solid material, but jade or the liu li stone could be translucent. 

The idea is that holding the translucent material over the solid Gold which also has those kind of texture, the overlapping pattern at certain areas would display the surname. The character has dual surname type, so one word etched on each side.