illustrations of cantonese inspo (and Canto culture)

Different types of poops as Chinese medicine

Pictionary of 80 Cantonese sayings related to mythical creatures/ animals/ ghosts by Hong Kong Illustrator Ah Tou (阿塗). Examples include 鬼揞眼 a ghost covers one’s eyes, meaning: to fail to see something/ Freudian slip.

(resource: https://zhimaludoushi.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/%E9%AB%98%E7%99%BB%E7%A5%9E%E7%8D%B8%E4%B9%8B%E7%88%B6%E9%98%BF%E5%A1%97%E5%89%B5%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E4%BF%97%E8%AA%9E%E6%BC%AB%E7%95%AB%E9%9B%86/)

More works by Ah Tou.

The chinese-english explanation clarifies things up a lot along with the illustration in the center.

A very classic, satirical character he created alluding to "Primary school chicken", a phrase that describes a person as too naive and childish. The design of the character references another meme/ image in HK internet culture, a clown like emoticon. It resembles the concept "plastic" in Canto, used to describe something that is superflous/ content-wise artificial/ stupid.