The Bimbas reprise

The Bimbas reprise




Few evenings ago I was at my cousin’s and her fiance house and I had my origami papers with me. I was carrying them around all day cause I wanted to find some time to make more bimbas (do you remember them?). When I arrived at their house, they were playing with Playstation (they’re really mad for videogames and animation in general) and I thought that was the occasion to take out my origami papers. Also, I thought it was a good idea to ask my cousin’s fiance to draw a face for one of my bimba heads. He is a talented illustrator/comics artist with a very "dark" attitude, as I can say (here’s his website if you’re curious), and so I knew what I was going through.

He agreed almost immediately but kept whining about the fact that the bimba didn’t had a body. So I made a shirt to compliment the blue headed bimba, asking to myself why I didn’t thought about it before. He seemed satisfied to the point to cut a little piece of black cardboard to connect the head with the shirt, and we discovered that this way the bimba’s head can actually be poseable and move too! This is how the Bimbanese (Bimba+japanese) bimba pictured above was born.



Then I continued making bimba faces and shirts and asked my cousin and a friend of theirs who was also at their house to draw a face each. The thing was becoming funny so both accepted and that was a good distraction between playing a number of different videogames. The Violet Sisters were born, drawn by my cousin (the flower-in-the-hair one) and friend (the pirate one).



At that point, things ran away from our hands. The bimbas literally possessed us and Saverio couldn’t help to draw more faces. If you go through the first made and the latest one, you see that they progressively go from bad to evil. The only one we left quite normal looking is the biggest one, drawn by myself and also known as The Great Mother (the other bimbas are really small, like 3 inches/7cm approx). Pictured below, at the end of this post, is the leader one of the Evil Sisters, who we acclaimed as our winning favourite bimba gone wrong. I absolutely admire the rip off shirt idea and realization! Here’s a family portrait.



♥ Korean creativity (just discovered via Drawn!)



Ecco ancora le Bimbe. Stavolta vestite, sono nate con la camicia. È molto tardi adesso e non ce la faccio a riscrivere tutto in italiano ma sappi che se vuoi chiedermi qualcosa che non capisci ti rispondo volentieri. Poi domani magari mi spiego meglio, se è il caso.