★ M I N 旻Min is my sona, and you'll realize how she looks the same as my 'old' characters. She's basically the 'me' I am in real life but probably better. I first came up with her existence/design back in 2012, and she sort of evolved from there.
"She's an observer; picks out all the details and every movement with only her eyes. |
★ A B O U T"Sometimes we're too busy looking down, that we don't notice the purple skies above." |
It's been questioned a few times what Min actually is. Her name, Min (旻) means beautiful autumn sky, and is actually my Chinese name because I was born in September (which is somehow considered as fall). Seeing that her name means sky, Min's overall design and story revolves around pandas and the sky. So what is she? In short, she's a purple panda who lives in the sky, observing human behaviour and eating stars in her spare time.
Min's interactions are a bit limited to her floating panda friend, but when she does interact with others, she's open, determined, stubborn, cheerful and social to a certain degree. She requires a minimum of 9 hours of sleep, or else she won't be able to function properly. ★ I N T E R E S T I N G F E A T U R E S ★ s t a r s - Min likes to eat stars. This is a bit of a metaphorical representation of my ambition to reach my dreams (with the stars being my dreams). The stars can also represent everything I've encountered throughout my journey as an artist. In the Little Prince, the stars all mean something different to everyone. For the businessman, stars meant wealth. For the Little Prince, the stars were a reminder that his rose was somewhere out there and that he isn't alone in this universe. So depending on what kind of person you are, stars can mean something different. The stars can be people I've met, friends, family, opportunities, little accomplishments, recognition, commissions, experiences, failures and many more. Since Min is a panda and pandas usually eat if they're not sleeping, Min is constantly consuming stars or looking for stars to consume. Of course, not all stars taste good (just like how not all the steps to our goals make us happy), but there's always those stars that taste like mangoes and those ones are the best. This is how Min continues to live and the stars give her warmth. ★ h o o d i e - Min is not a star, but she's made of several stars as seen in the purple parts of her hoodie. She sparkles (physically) because of those stars altogether. I'd like to believe that I'm who I am today not because of myself, but because of the people around me, what I've been through, my experiences and just the series of events that have occurred in my life. Each of those, as mentioned before, is a star. As Min continues to live, she consumes more and more stars, and the purple parts of her hoodie become more and more sparkly, filled with galaxies and constellations. Min is a constellation, a galaxy, because she's not made of one star, but millions of stars. Sometimes, the galaxy from her hoodie leaks out and leaves a trail, symbolizing how we unfortunately sometimes forget about certain experiences or people. My favourite colour was purple for the dumbest reason. I woke up one day when I was in grade 2, and I suddenly decided that I needed to have a favourite colour. I didn't want my favourite colour to be pink or blue, because it was everyone's favourite colour and it just became boring. Grade 2 me decided to look into my drawer, and at the time, I owned a lot of purple clothes. That's how I decided purple was my favourite colour. One part of me hated grade 2 me for picking such a difficult colour to work with, but after a while, I'm glad I did. I think having that childish and innocent part of me determine who I was going to be years from that day is incredible. We often forget so easily about our childhood or what it felt like to be carefree and happy. So in the video, My Paintbrush, little Min wears completely all purple to represent my childish, innocent, no-logic-driven decisions as a child, something most of us have lost. In the video, the older Min (who's plain white and colourless because of life and responsibilities) slowly merges with the younger Min (who's covered in purple). That's essentially how Min came to have a mix of purple and white in her design... In a panda pattern. In all honesty, I did not plan for this when I designed her to have a panda hoodie (I just did it because I like pandas and I wear hoodies), but it's just interesting how a "wiser" future me found/created the reason for it years after it was designed. ★ p a n d a s - Obviously, Min is a panda, but she also has occasional panda friends that float around here and there. These starry pandas are usually seen in my logos, original drawings and other places. The panda currently has no name, but they're there to show how I have an army of stuffed pandas from my childhood and how the panda is just a symbol of me to my friends (it's been associated with me for so long, my friends can tell it's me if a panda is involved most of the time). I feel like it can sometimes get lonely and boring if you're stuck in the sky all day, observing people... So I gave her a friend, just like how that army of stuffed pandas made me feel less lonely when I was younger. ★ o b s e r v e r - Min is commonly known as the observer. Most of her time is spent just looking and observing things, trying to grasp every little detail of everything. The world is busy and it only gets busier as we grow up. I remember as a child, I'd often just stare up at the night sky and admire its beauty. Nowadays, I find myself so busy and indulged in work that I don't even have time to glance at the sky. Sometimes I stay indoors all day drawing, not noticing how beautiful the sky is. Min is there to realize it all for me. She looks at the stars for me, takes notes on the beautiful clouds, and her favourite, observe the beauty of the purple skies. |
★ H I S T O R Y
Min is one of my closest OCs and I draw her the most because of how attached I am to her (she shares the most personal connections and I can express myself easily through Min). She's been here since the beginning of my "anime" phase and the beginning of my "getting into drawing seriously" phase back in grade 6. Back then, I loved purple and pandas, so I wanted my OC to be both of those. Min went through countless designs and redesigns, and she even became some of my other OCs that I no longer use (because they're disgustingly cringey but they satisfied 12-year-old me).
Min is one of my closest OCs and I draw her the most because of how attached I am to her (she shares the most personal connections and I can express myself easily through Min). She's been here since the beginning of my "anime" phase and the beginning of my "getting into drawing seriously" phase back in grade 6. Back then, I loved purple and pandas, so I wanted my OC to be both of those. Min went through countless designs and redesigns, and she even became some of my other OCs that I no longer use (because they're disgustingly cringey but they satisfied 12-year-old me).
Min's designs over the years are what I wore at the time. I've been wearing short shorts since grade 6, but my sense of fashion in tops has changed. It went from wearing hats and tight t-shirts to giant oversized hoodies. Min also started wearing converse-designed shoes, but I've never bothered to change them after the converse trend was over because they worked with her design just fine.
★ M Y P A I N T B R U S H
My grade 11 media arts culminating, which I also submitted to a film festival and earned second place in the animation category.
A story about the rediscovery of my childhood, and how our childhood is our paintbrush. This also explains why Min's outfit design is a panda design, as well as her personality being a mix of both characters in the film. Music is composed by the wonderful yuuris-piano on tumblr!
A story about the rediscovery of my childhood, and how our childhood is our paintbrush. This also explains why Min's outfit design is a panda design, as well as her personality being a mix of both characters in the film. Music is composed by the wonderful yuuris-piano on tumblr!
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Everyone is a work of art, and our childhood is its foundation. Hopefully when we forget about it, it will come to us and remind us of its importance. After all, it’s our paintbrush. |
art count: 136 | doodle count: 100
date designed: (created for other OCs) - 2012 (officially only Min) - August (?) 2015 |
★ R E F E R E N C E S :G E N E R A L :
S T A N D A R D O U T F I T :
Feel free to make minor changes but please make sure the panda hoodie is there! R E A C T I O N D O O D L E S :doodles I draw when answering tumblr asks!
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