#qique

[chimeride]

Qique, the 246th Known One.

"There is a bird here on North Shouting Mountain whose form ressembles a chicken but with a white head, rat's feet, and tiger's claws. It is called a Qique. It, too, is a man eater." - Shanhai jing, Guideways Through Mountains and Seas.

first design (no chimken ??)

Qique means Qi-magpie, and somehow i forgot about the chicken while designing it. I still had the original illustration in mind, and i misinterpreted the 2 legs as 2 sets of front and back legs. At the end it looked too much like some kind of griffin and the tail was wrong.. so i chose to just stick to the text with no magpie. I'm still not super satisfied with the design, maybe the right one stands between these two takes

[gotojobin]

#Qique #Qimagpie #ShanHaiJing #magpie #NorthShoutingMountain #ShoutingMountain The ABCs of ABC – Q Q is for… Qique Another of the many monstrous man-eaters of the Shan Hai Jing, the Qique or Qi-magpie looks like a white-headed chicken with rat’s feet and tiger’s claws. It lives on North Shouting Mountain. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwX965_F1pu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pl25fetlhzqh