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THIS WEEK'S ONE HOUR DRAWING CHALLENGE, "DEATH GOD"/"SKULL"

Added 2018-09-30 07:13:39 +0000 UTC

Here is my drawing for this week's One Hour Drawing Challenge (beard ver.).

I post it here prior to the deadline.

The subjects were, "Death God"/"skull".

The organizer of the challenge chose those subjects because of Halloween season. So, I tried to draw something more Japanese/Japanesque image in stead of persuing Western image.

This is an image of Rakugo-ka (らくごか、落語家）talking about the story of Death God (しにがみ、死神).

"Rakugo-ka" is the traditional stand-up comedian/story teller in Japan (well, they do that "sitting" on the stage. So, "stand-up" is not correct, I guess. On the other hand, "Rakugo" is the naun of their performance. Therefor, a Rakugo-ka does Rakugo).

This Rakugo, the story of Death God, the title is exactly, "Death God" is the one written around 200 years ago. It is innterestingly, based on one of German stories collected by brothers of Grim, "Godfather Death"(Der Gevatter Tod) and an Italian opera by Federico Ricci, "The Cobbler and the Fairy (Crispino e la comare)".

More info about Rakugo-ka and Rakugo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo