This is bloody difficult to photograph and the light this time of day is not what I want for it so forgive the quality: there's still the question of final presentation anyway so we'll call it a work in progress. For the moment I'm presenting it on black, but it's actually not attached.

Chinese White is a Prisma: read all about them here [link]
Chinese White is a mysterious creature that contains all other colours in a latent state and so will pop up with flamboyant features every now and then, as now. Very quiet, very elusive (it doesn't take much to make it vanish), it has a peaceful temper and brings with it serenity. Because its name evokes the exotism of China, it ended up with the aspect of the Quilin.
It belongs to the specific group of Prisma called pigments, who have mineral origins – hence the metallic horn and hooves.

Making-of notes: I used three kinds of paper for the body. I'm sorry the photograph doesn't render the lovely white-on-white Chinese-clouds motif of the white one or the gold flecks of the others. Metallic sheet was used for the horn, fang and hooves, and the eye (proud of that one) is white "stained glass" melted for this purpose, so the white is quite dimensional.

Now as this was an experiment with a new(ish) technique, I'd like to go into the results of the experiment. This is an illustration technique I've seen many times but never could find out how it was done (whether it's really simply paper cut-outs or there is some CG work on top) or even what it's called. I don't despair to find out someday as it really appeals to me. I've done cut-out work before but this particular style has a very slight tridimensionality to it that makes all the difference, and this I didn't manage to achieve, so I will try things a bit differently in the next Prisma. For the moment here are the problems I've spotted in it, and the solutions I can think of:

* Due to the variety of papers I am using, I can't use watercolour to create subtle shading because each paper will react differently to it, some disastrously.
> Solution: use pencil * Another problem, that of the coarseness of the shading.
> Solution 2: Use the same kind of paper, likely Canson * Another problem, I lose the rich textures and patterns > Solution: create them myself on the Canson before cutting it out, because using Canson also solves the problem below:
* Not all papers used can be "sculpted" well, so I lose in many places the potential of creating dimension through embossing and folding.

* This "muscular" style I sketched out, once rendered in cut-out, ends up looking too childish because all surfaces are smooth and the shapes end up too simple.

* In the absence of tridimensionality, pieces of the same colour are not well differentiated. > Solution: A subtle outline? But that would defeat the purpose of this technique. Use of shadows during the photography would help, but let's give this some more thought