Year of the Tiger

After finding the Zodiac artwork from a previous blog, I started searching around for more unique images. This time I came across a posting for the Chinese zodiac's.

1962 - Year of the Tiger (74, 86, 98, 10)

"Artist Daniel Lee draws on the Chinese Zodiac to manipulate these images through the computer. His series, titled "Manimals", exhibits portraits showing the animal signs of these people. The 12 Chinese Zodiac signs are: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog and boar.

The animal for a specific person can be determined by the year a person was born. Each animal has different personalities and characteristics. It's believed that a person can portray characteristics similiar to the animal year in which the person was born.

Daniel Lee finds people that were born in each year of the 12 signs. He then takes a portrait of them and scans it onto his computer. From there he alters their human features by adding animal characteristics. He uses Photoshop to do all of this. He gives a little insight of this process on his website : "I have to change the eyeball from a human eyeball to an animal eyeball; I have to remove the eyebrows to make the nose broader.""

1975 - Year of the Rabbit (63, 87, 99, 11)

1967 - Year of the Sheep (79, 91, 03, 15)

1966 - Year of the Horse (78, 90, 02, 14)

1965 - Year of the Snake (77, 89, 01, 13)

1964 - Year of the Dragon (76, 88, 00, 12)

1960 - Year of the Rat (72, 84, 96, 08)

1946 - Year of the Dog (70, 82, 94, 06)

1959 - Year of the Boar (71, 83, 95, 07)

1944 - Year of the Monkey (68, 80, 92, 04)

1957 - Year of the Cock (69, 81, 93, 05)

1949 - Year of the Ox (61, 73, 85, 07)

Daniel has many other amazing pieces in his gallery, check out his NightLife series.