Saw Paw Meadow :

See, I CAN draw a decent looking male when I want to.A male Asian character I drew for my talk on alternative medicine. This one represented the herbal called Saw Palmetto.

Saw Palmetto has been shown in some trials to improve urinary flow rate in older men with prostate hypertrophy, although most Western medicines work equally as well or better.

To represent that fact I drew a man (who's not nearly old enough to have prostate problems) with wave imagery on the trim on his coat (images from a Korean painting).

The chainsaws are where his name "Saw Paw" fits in. Sort of an anachronistic sword fighter, maybe.

Motorcycle goggles seem to be popular in Korean pop culture lately.

The dragon on the chainsaw blade purposely has four fingers on each claw, making it Korean.

The Chinese believe (probably rightfully so) that Asian dragons originated in China, had five fingers per paw, and lost a finger the farther east they went (four fingers in Korea, three in Japanese dragons). When they went west, they gained a finger, and really, six toes were too much, so those dragons died out. Hence, there are no Asian-style dragons in Europe with six toes.

Korean lore states that REAL dragons have four fingers and gain or lose one depending on how west or east they relocate (same as China lore).

Japanese lore states the original dragons started in Japan with three fingers, etc.

This is supposedly one way of telling whether a dragon was painted by a Chinese, Korean, or Japanese artist. This rule doesn't work with clothing emblems though, in which the number of talons represented social standing (five talons being the godlike Emperor himself).

 

 

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