piaoue・飃絵

I dont exactly have a fave holiday so between my non-celebratory enjoyment of halloween scares and nostalgia for certain winter solstice traditions this is the result. The halloween part is a bat based on a 'jelly doughnut bat' meme pic posted in Art Union's Discord server. Winter solstice is celebrated differently around the world, and one commonly known festival is Yule. I wanted to incorporate some yule symbols but scrapped the ideas to keep the design more round-ish, only keeping the gingerbread-y figure. One Chinese tradition for winter solstice is the Dongzhi Festival. You get to eat tangyuan (glutinous rice balls) on a specific day, and I believe the amount you're supposed to eat is your age + 1, but imagine being 96 years old and having to eat 97 balls. It's common to dye tangyuan green/pink, like the colours of japanese dango, so her hair and buttons are the colours of a typical stick of dango. I was also thinking of mitarashi dango, so I ended up making her body and skin mitarashi dango-based. I remember someone half-jokingly wondering if bobas count as tangyuan, and I suppose they would so I added bobas too. The top of her hair is snowy blue, and so is her cape, as if a chunk of snow has fallen on her. Drew this on 2023/05/29 while waiting for my flight, submitted on 2023/05/30