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Japanese Art Drawings


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This http://www.japaneseswordstore.com/art/nobukazu.jpg is the kind of drawing I'm trying to pull off. I'll admit I haven't done a lot of artwork lately, but I have no clue how to learn to do this. Are there any classes that teach this style?

I'm figuring its prob done w/ some paint ( watercolor? ). I'd much rather "master" drawing it w/ pencil first but I'm finding it quite hard.

I know some people draw here ( I hope you're not all computer geeks :p ). I'd post on deviant ( or elsewhere ), but I don't have an account and it would prob be the only post I would put there. I like the style being used in the work and it's my only motivation as of late to start doing artwork again. It looks cool, is very different from most other artwork and it takes a lot of time.

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I would place my bets on woodblock printing. It is a process where the picture is etched in wood, colored, and then printed :)

Edit: Notice its three pages ... and not one artwork?

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hmm, i remeber reading up on japanese art a while ago (probably whilst i was over there as an xchange stu) i dont actually think it was watercolors, but watered down inks, u gotta remeber the colors u see on that picture are kinda faded due to light exposure over the years, im pretty sure u could pull this off in photoshop or fireworks (depends on ur abilities). not exactly a fountain of info am i :) best bet would be for dazzla or one of the artier types here to help u out :)

good luck mate, and post up ur image when ur finished ;)

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It's watercolors and ink for the outlines. Usually done on rice paper.

I suppose I could do the watercolors on rice paper technique at some point. Back to drawing first. Then on to painting. I've done a bit of painting before - just got to get more practice.

Actually Hypercube is right it is woodblock printing after all. I'm much more appreciative of how this artform is performed. If you go to http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entr...peat_frame.html and read the process I have to say its painstaking. OMG. Guess I won't be working on that anytime soon. Good news is, the first step is drawing it by hand, then comes transferring to woodblock. Guess I'll work on drawing first and worry about painting later.

[edit] Thanks everyone for the pointers. I'm not doing this stuff electronically ( w/ Illustrator, etc. ). If I come up w/ a really cool design at some point, I'll scan it and put it up on the Net. It will take me a while but I have some really cool ideas.

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oops, didn't even bother looking at the image, it is woodblocking, the colors are too vivid and precise to be watercolor, but yet, what I said was another form on how they did that, The Kensei, Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin (or just Musashi Miyamoto ) was one who did watercolors quite a bit, check out his work sometime, it might give you ideas. He wrote the "Book of Five Rings "Go Rin No Sho" which has a lot of his art in there, so see if they have it at your local library. Good luck. :)

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I (being japanese) remember seeing a few like that and most of them were etched in wood. As to how its colored... I never bothered to figure it out. If your tryint to recreate it on the comp, it shouldnt be too hard. In real life... I dont know. Most of it is the style of the characters so you can probably get a good mimic with just a pencil.

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