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The Beckoning Gate

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Commissioned by Digital Artist Magazine for Issue 4. I wrote an article about the Ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and how to simulate the look in Corel Painter. I beefed up the lines some to also look like the Okami art style.

This was my first time attempting perspective like this. It got a bit fish eyed because I put the vanishing points to close together. >_< It's something I still don't get when trying to draw 2 point perspective. I will work on it!

An unedited excerpt from the article (it may appear differently in the actual magazine!):

"A veil of mist. Laughter from a stage. Moonlight and shadows on a street fair. These are only a few of the ephemeral moments captured by the deft hands of the Japanese masters of line and design, the masters of Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e literally means “Floating World” and the thousands of woodblock prints designed and printed from the 1650's to about 1912. The art depicted modern life, cityscapes, and landscapes and were popular among the emerging middle class of Japan who were flocking to the cities from rural farms. These workers couldn't afford original paintings like the aristocracy but ukiyo-e prints were within their price range. Portraits of famous kabuki actors, geishas, and popular tea servers were all the rage as the middle class imitated the folks with more money.

Ukiyo-e has many looks, but generally has very definitive straight lines for buildings and hard edges, with the softer thick and thin lines for organic shapes and curves. The traditional art isn't just line work, it is the whole package of composition, brushwork, carved wood, and careful pressure on the wood blocks combined with vibrant colour to create the reproductions. Most painting programs have brushes that can be modified into the perfect inking tool. This tutorial was created in Painter but you can apply the techniques discussed here in many programs and in real media."

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WendyLynn's avatar
It's good to see artists as great as you not be 100% an expert on everything. Reminds us you're human as well. Of course, this still looks fantastic. :)