Thanks! It's mostly all a section of this vintage kimono that I had, used in different resolutions and tweaked for color. There's an umbrella-shaped patterning going on in the background--that's just drawn by hand and filtered (the tree-shape-looking thing is riffing off a diagram of a neuron). The teeny sliver of patterning you see on his innermost pinkish kimono is a private joke/obscure reference; it's scanned from this little book--Designer's Guide to Japanese Patterns, Vol. 2 by Jeanne Allen--and it's "kikko (tortise shells)," apparently a popular design that was briefly stenciled on battle gear before the peaceful Edo period.
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Thanks! It's mostly all a section of this vintage kimono that I had, used in different resolutions and tweaked for color. There's an umbrella-shaped patterning going on in the background--that's just drawn by hand and filtered (the tree-shape-looking thing is riffing off a diagram of a neuron). The teeny sliver of patterning you see on his innermost pinkish kimono is a private joke/obscure reference; it's scanned from this little book--Designer's Guide to Japanese Patterns, Vol. 2 by Jeanne Allen--and it's "kikko (tortise shells)," apparently a popular design that was briefly stenciled on battle gear before the peaceful Edo period.