This piece was actually done for a contest on Gaia, and it was definitely one of the most amazing entries I received. As you may know, this particular furisode is incredibly special to me so of course I’m going to be biased when it comes to artwork of it. But look at the sheer amount of detail in this piece. The artist, Elsa Lee, put in a painstaking amount of work to faithfully reproduce the pattern on the kimono. What’s more, can you believe she did it with a mouse?! My hand hurts just thinking about it.
If you want to see the incredibly high-resolution version of this (and believe me, you do!), you can check it out on Elsa’s DeviantArt account
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It’s beautiful. #_# I do (primitive) vectors, so I’m really impressed by the details- it must have taken forever…
(Is there a kimono guild or something on Gaia? I’m kind of curious… If there is one, is it open-membership or only for certain people? Since you mentioned a contest, I thought that there might be a club or something…)
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There is a kimono guild, I run it, but it’s pretty inactive. You can send a join request if you want though! http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds-home/kimonomaniacs/g.272303/
The contest was just held in the Art Contest forum, it wasn’t specifically about kimono. People have art contests on Gaia all the time.