The black & white print titled “Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple” receives a color repaint. Here is one hour of the painting process compressed into one minute.
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Mapping Pan Gu
“All the great stories have maps” a beta-reader once told me. As with much of A Tiger’s Tale, its inclusion needed to reflect my understanding and so, some research was required.
What about Wude (武德)?
Wude is an important part of the culture of the Chinese martial arts. Morality is very important to the practice of martial arts in general and this idea of Wude is extolled by Kung Fu masters. It is the criteria on how students are judged by their masters, and whether or not they are deemed worthy to be taught.
Behind the Volume 2 cover image
As I mentioned just last week, we are working to prepare the long awaited crowdfunding campaign for volume 2 of A Tiger’s Tale. I thought I would take a few minutes to share with you some of the work that went on in generating that cover image. Following this permutation, the question of “what story …
Tiger Leaps the Abyss
Of our recent explorations of the Bagua and the Book of Changes there is one Trigram which is most significant to A Tiger’s Tale; number 6 Kan after which the main character has been named.
Kung Fu Secrets: The Bagua & The Book of Changes
What are the “eight changes” (八卦 – also pa kua)? Along with the five elements, this eight changes, more commonly known as the “Bagua” form the basis of nearly all Chinese metaphysical systems, especially the I Ching (or Yijing), the oracle book.