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Been a long time since I dun art, huh?
A few weeks back, I came across the work of Japanese artist Ikenaga Yasunari in a blog post at My Modern Metropolis. He uses brush and canvas to do his works, but as they relied on large-scale patterns and the canvas texture, I figured I could do something similar digitally.
Ikenaga Yasunari's website
The frame thing ended up on there by accident - I was trying to work out where an 8x10" section of it would be, and found I rather liked the effect. :)
Detail of the face:
I think I could make the shading on the face a little more contrasty, because it sort of got lost after I threw the final textures on. I also had to use a sandstone texture instead of a canvas texture because I couldn't find a free canvas texture that I liked that was large enough. Ah well.
I traced the face and clothing from this photo at morguefile.com, by Chilombiano, then painted the face and then began the arduous process of finding large-scale free patterns that I liked enough to use. I'd still rather the background was a bit more vine-y, more organic and less rectangular, but oh well. It's OK as it is.
And after I thought I'd finished, I realized the patterns needed to follow the folds in the clothing so had to redo all of them. XD
A few weeks back, I came across the work of Japanese artist Ikenaga Yasunari in a blog post at My Modern Metropolis. He uses brush and canvas to do his works, but as they relied on large-scale patterns and the canvas texture, I figured I could do something similar digitally.
Ikenaga Yasunari's website
The frame thing ended up on there by accident - I was trying to work out where an 8x10" section of it would be, and found I rather liked the effect. :)
Detail of the face:
I think I could make the shading on the face a little more contrasty, because it sort of got lost after I threw the final textures on. I also had to use a sandstone texture instead of a canvas texture because I couldn't find a free canvas texture that I liked that was large enough. Ah well.
I traced the face and clothing from this photo at morguefile.com, by Chilombiano, then painted the face and then began the arduous process of finding large-scale free patterns that I liked enough to use. I'd still rather the background was a bit more vine-y, more organic and less rectangular, but oh well. It's OK as it is.
And after I thought I'd finished, I realized the patterns needed to follow the folds in the clothing so had to redo all of them. XD
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Thanks!
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Also, I have an art-related question for you. I have a teenaged cousin who has been drawing her own comics and making noises for some years about wanting a career in manga (though I assume she doesn't mean in Japan, as she'd like more autonomy and self-expression than being a manga assistant offers and just isn't prepared to put in the time).
She's recently completed a manga drawing course over several months in Spain (her country of residence) and still doodles at her day job in a video rental place, so it's gone a bit beyond being a phase, and I'd like to help where I can. The problem is that my help is generally, "You've improved a lot, but you'd really benefit from taking life drawing classes," which isn't something she wants to hear. In fairness, the last time I asked her was in her earlier and more stubborn teens, but her answer of "I don't think it suits my style," (which was incredibly frustrating, for obvious reasons, you don't need to tell me how misguided the sentiment is) hasn't changed, according to my much more art-knowledgeable mother who visited while said cousin was on said course and showing her work around.
I've really enjoyed it when you explore and adapt new styles for your own purposes and explain your progress, as above, but I don't really want to direct her to a livejournal I visit and leave comments on. However, I was wondering if you know of any blogs of artists who explore different art styles like that, the idea being that she'll take some of it on board and hopefully at some point realise how much she has to learn and the fundamentals she needs to cover to get there. It would be fantastic if there were someone around experimenting with different manga styles specifically as that would get around her whole "Non-manga art isn't relevant to me" mindset, but I wouldn't even know how to go about looking for that and have never found success trawling through Deviant Art.
Do you have any ideas or advice or recommendations on how to deal with this?
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slackingwebsurfing talents of th f-list might come up with something. XD(I also may do some searching on my own - this sounds like a good question [suitably anonymized, with bits about your cousin removed] for Librarian @ Large, if you're amenable to that. We need more emergency backup posts. :D)
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