"Sakura" Geisha painting.

I started this painting some time last year but I had to put it aside until recently when i decided to finally finish it up.
The painting is called "Sakura" meaning cherry blossom. I wanted to finish it during the cherry blossom blooming season, which I just managed to do ^_^

Below is a progression video of the painting to show it all coming together.

Snowfall (Geisha)

Been working on this painting for a while, jumping back and forth from different projects.

But got the time to work on it and get it finished.
This painting went through a lot of changes but I got it to where I am happy with it.
I was a little torn between 2 ideas for this.

Above are few work in progress images. The initial sketches showed the idea of her walking through a street in Gion but after painting in a rough idea of the colors I wasnt really happy with it and so I decided to go with the mysterious setting instead :)

Katana (Suicide Squad) painting

Did a quick study painting of Katana from the Suicide Squad.
Half way through I thought I would try a little experiment and so I painted each hair strand seperatley on different layers to animate it for a fun little gif later on.


Katana

Painting Steps

Blackened Eyes

The eyeballs were painted on a seperate layers too to be able to paint in the black eye transformation later on. I plan on creating a few animated gifs sometime in the future with some sort of story for it. So this was just a little test run for that.

Katana, Tatsu Yamashiro

Been busy working on a few different projects, but got some time to get back to painting this Geisha painting and finaly have it finished.

Wanted to keep this piece a bit more loose and have more of a traditional feel to it.
Used a few different brushes for this piece, mostly brushes with a harsh bristle look to them and a few other brushs to smooth out a few areas.

Autumn Geisha

Here are some work in progress steps of this piece.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Needed a short change in scenery from my current 3D model project so I went and painted Japanese singer  Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

Final Image

Here is a Gif of the painting in progress. Show some sense in all the madness ^_^
Click the images to enlarge for a better view.

GIF Progress Animation

Sumi-e

Carrying on with the Sumi-e paintings, which I will continue to do for the next week or so.
Here are a few of the paintings I have been doing.

 

 

More to come..........

Bamboo Painting

A Painting of bamboo in a traditional Japanese Sumi ink style.

 

This is the first in a series of similar paintings I will be doing in traditional inks and also some in digital and a few as a mixed media.

 

 

New Painting

Starting on a new painting. Have had this painting in my head for a good while and happy to finally get starting on it. 

Bird painting progression 

I got a little carried away with painting this bird as it is only a small portion of the actual painting it is for, but I was enjoying it and thought it would make a nice little painting itself ^_^

The above painting is intended to be a painting on a traditional Japanese sliding door (Fusuma) which will be in the background of the painting.

Sketch of the full painting.

Above is the initial sketch I did for this painting with the progress of the bird thrown in for a quick idea of how things are going to fit together.

Working my way through the details

Halfway finished the kimono

Quarter of Kimono left to paint

Geisha Sketches

 

Kokeshi dolls

A little project I set for myself to further learn Maya programme.
For this little learning process I decided to make some Kokeshi Dolls.
Pretty cute little things to make and paint., was fun.

3 variation Kokeshi Dolls ready to paint.

Kokeshi dolls Painted

May make few changes soon to this, a few more texture maps and a backround. Will see :)

Some Maya Practice

Thought I'd try out modelling in Maya and start making a Japanese garden lamp.

Decided to use this design above and draw it out in photoshop with a better working view.
Not gonna stick exactly to the reference so gonna mess about as I model to suit my tastes.

 

Began texturing this model & set up some visually pleasing lights too. Still alot of texturing to do but looking pretty neat so far.

Cellist

Thought I'd start a new painting So decided to paint a Cellist named Kanon Wakeshima.










Geisha

Here is some work in progress pictures of my geisha painting. Enjoy.