{"id":24707,"date":"2024-02-02T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24707"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:25:35","slug":"helia-kuai-with-less-spiky-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/02\/02\/helia-kuai-with-less-spiky-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Helia Kuai, with less spiky hair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1807.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24708\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7486173956762192;width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I think about how my art evolved recently, I think I noticed a trend toward realism. This is evident in how I gave Helia (Simon&#8217;s annoyingly perfect and vengeful black-ops cousin from Toronto) more naturalistic hair. She used to have this super spiky hairstyle to signify her prickly nature, but she started to look weird next to everyone&#8217;s updated designs. With her new hair, I can now imagine Helia as a kind of real person. Here, I tried to make her outfit more militaristic, more like she&#8217;s a woman on a mission, hence the mask and armor. This time, the kiss is canonical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I think about how my art evolved recently, I think I noticed a trend toward realism. This is evident in how I gave Helia (Simon&#8217;s annoyingly perfect and vengeful black-ops cousin from Toronto) more naturalistic hair. She used to have this super spiky hairstyle to signify her prickly nature, but she started to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":24717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24709,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions\/24709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}