INSPIRATION:

I chose a quote from a short story called Painted Skin in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai 聊斋) by the Chinese writer Pu Songling（蒲松龄）in 1740. Painted Skin was one of the popular strange tales in this anthologyof supernatural tales.

”

见一狞鬼，面翠色，齿如锯。铺人皮于榻上，执彩笔而绘之；已而掷笔，举皮，如振衣状，披于身，遂化为女子。

Softly creeping up, he looked through the window and saw a hideous devil, with a green face and jagged teeth like a saw, spreading a human skin upon the bed and painting it with a paint brush. The devil then threw aside the brush, and giving the skin a shake out, just as you would a coat, threw it over its shoulders, when lo! it was the girl.”

 

I got the inspiration from the girl(fox goblin) who was wearing a mask made of human skin, on which her attractive features were painted.

Resource from the film Painted Skin (2008).

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PROCESS:

 

First, I drew a sketch of my initial idea on the look & feel of this project.

Next, I started to cut out the figure from paper.

Then I started to test how the LEDs would work. There were some obstacles that stopped me in keep working —- I put those two LEDs in the same positive end which could only make one LED light up.

#1 test 

#2 test 

#3 test 

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