Project
An illustrated guide
While working on a publishing project with the Orient@menti association I became fascinated by the numerous masks and characters that feature in the annual “Cham” Buddhist dances in Ladakh, India. I therefore decided to study the main characters in order to reproduce them in a guidebook explaining their history and iconography.
After researching the history of the dances, their performance, the entrance sequence and the style of the characters, I created pencil sketches of the main masks. These were then digitised and coloured in.
Accompanied by explanatory texts in English, they are laid out and printed in a hand-bound book with a regenerated leather cover.
Implementation
The illustrations
Implementation
The book: layout, printing, and binding
