月別アーカイブ: 2015年9月

Autumn, Fruits

Chestnut – Sumi-e

Hello,chestnut is here.

栗_Chestnut

 

Tips :

Burr body

Load very bright ink with more water than usual.
Burr body consists of three parts.

(Wash brush)

Fruits

Load black ink
To get pointed of the fruit, tap on the paper with the tip of brush hair first.
Then, lean the brush bar to depict the bottom of the fruit body.
Don’t pull the brush. Hold the same position.
Use the brush like stamp.

Burr

Make a brush for thin line drawing
Put the hair of brush on the ink stone to get very black ink on one side
Then, draw burr.
Put the top of the brush hair on the burr part depicted earlier.
Then move off to outside of burr body.
By starting to draw the burr line from the body, the ink is fading with taking up the water.

(Wash brush)

Leaves

Make up a brush for normal stroke. Load regular black ink
First, tap the brush tip on the paper.
Then push and pull the brush vertically along with moving
Keep the brush vertically toward the paper.

(Wash brush)

Load bright black ink
Then do the same movement as earlier.
You can get shade.

Enjoy 🙂

 

Autumn, Fruits

Grape – Sumi-e

(C) Kazu Shimura 2006
(C) Kazu Shimura 2006

The Autumn, the season of fertility.
Grape is one of fun motif for sumi-e. Because it needs few techniques to depict and you can experience what sumi-e is.

Tips:  

Grapes:

Load black ink.
Two strokes for one grape.
First touch down the paper with the top of the brush hair then swirl the brush.
Second stroke moves little along with the first part.
Continue the same two-strokes movement to add other grapes until the ink is consumed totally.
A Grape which is depicted first comes front and second one goes back. (This is one of great characteristics of sumi ink I love)

Leaf

Make a brush as normal.
Hold a brush horizontally and keep it almost parallel at paper surface.
Touch down with the all brush hairs at once.
Slide the brush.
The grape leaves look like kind of sharply.

(Wash the brush)

Veins

Make a brush for thin line drawing.
Load very black ink.
Draw the line.

Brunch and connect each grape

Draw brunch
Connecting each grape with thin line is the most fun part of the grape drawing.

Enjoy 🙂

Autumn, English, fish, Sumi-e Drawing Video

Saury Fish – Sumi-e

Saury, san-ma in Japanese, is one of Japanese favorite fish in autumn for dinner. It has a strong thin body and silver and blue colored. It is like sharpened swards. San-ma is depicted by three Chinese characters which means Autumn, sward, fish.

水墨画 秋刀魚 "Sanma"

Tips :

Eye and face :

Draw the eye first.
Make a brush for thin line drawing.
Then, draw the outline.

Back top :

Put the very black ink into the brush.
Then, draw a big and strong line from the point above the eye to the tail.
This line is the very important part of the saury drawing.

Fin :

Again, prepare your brush for the thin line drawing.
Add tail fin and other fin.

Back :

Put “no ink” into the brush. Your brush has only water here.
Then, hold the brush horizontally.
Lower the brush into the black line drew before.
Bring down the brush with keeping your brush horizontally.
Keep your brush position and bring it down.
So that you can get bleeding effect.

Dots.

Make your brush for the thin line drawing.
Put the very black ink in the brush.
Then, just put down the brush on paper in order to stump the ink.

insects...

Crab – Sumi-e

Hello there. Almost the summer is gone.

Tips :

1. BODY

Hold a brush horizontally.
Slide down a brush from top. (Don’t snap or curve your wrist. Hold the same position during the slide)
The same stroke both for left body and right body.

2. Hands

Draw the right hand first.
Hold the same position as we draw the body.
Put the top of the brush down on the paper first in order to make top of hands.
Two strokes for one hand.

Change the direction of the brush.
Then draw the left hand.

Legs and outline

Make a brush for the thin line drawing
Put the very black ink on the brush.
Then draw eight legs.

Enjoy: )