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How to draw a male prostitute's handwritten newspaper?

Male prostitute handwritten newspaper described this way:

Method one

First, draw the outline of the head and the hat on the head of the prostitute, draw the eyes and three mouths on the face, draw the clothes, put your hands on your chest from the wide sleeves, paint the hat of the prostitute with yellow and dark blue, and paint the clothes with green, yellow, red and blue layer by layer, and a lovely prostitute is drawn.

Method 2

First, prepare a sketch paper, draw the shape of a male prostitute with Mark, and make rich and interesting expressions and clothes details.

Then draw a mount under the prostitute.

Then use a watercolor pen to paint the male prostitute with bright colors and draw the red face of the male prostitute.

Finally, the color in the picture is processed to make the picture look auspicious and festive, and the male prostitute is finished.

Data expansion

Male prostitute is a local traditional handicraft in Beijing, which belongs to children's toys that should be in season during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, Beijingers worship "male prostitutes". This custom originated in the Ming Dynasty.

After the "male prostitute" turned into a children's Mid-Autumn Festival toy. Some people portray a "male prostitute" as a warrior wearing a golden helmet and shining armor, some riding lions and elephants, some carrying paper flags or umbrellas on their backs, or sitting or standing, which is pleasing to the eye.

According to the statement that there is a Jade Rabbit of Chang 'e in the Moon Palace, the Jade Rabbit is further artistically personified and even deified, and made into various forms of male prostitutes with mud. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Moon Palace Jade Rabbit gradually broke away from the attachment of the moon worship, and formed an independent image in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon, and gradually enriched it.

Male prostitutes have both sacred and secular characteristics, and they have both sacrificial and recreational functions. Nowadays, male prostitutes have become one of the most representative intangible cultural heritages in Beijing.