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Brushstrokes by *Inkthinker:iconInkthinker:

Categories Manga/Anime > Digital Media > Drawings

©2006-2009 *Inkthinker
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Artist's Comments

I'm not sure where to drop this, but for now I'll toss this in Anime, because I was sorta going for a Japanese brush style and it does depict a Japanese swordsman. I wasn't necessarily going for sumi-e brush, though, 'cause I can't really mimic the texture of the brushstrokes and ink... and there's a whole philosophy of technique behind that which I'm not fully versed in, anyhow. Somehow I think I ended up with more of a Hirschfeld style.

The idea here was to convey motion and form with very few lines. Drew it in Manga Studio EX, mostly with vector brushes, so it's totally digital... had a loose guide to follow (which was drawn in Photoshop by shacho Norton) but for the most part this was pretty much freehand. Total time, 'bout 20 minutes.

Soooo... yeah. More "outside the box" type-stuff. It's good to stretch. :D

-EDIT-

Got a couple paper textures off the Net, layered 'em together and played with the hue and saturation levels to gussie it up a little. Took about 45 minutes if you count all the fiddling... about 5 minutes of which was actually required to achieve the final effect. Lord, I do love digital tools.

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=Zoroko May 1, 2006, 9:09:44 PM
Ohh this is so awesome! It flows so well! Great job with showing movement

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~Winter-Stardust May 1, 2006, 9:09:57 PM
*first comment dance* :boogie:
Wow, this is wonderful! Smooth lines and great composition. A :+fav: for you.

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~Madmoonie May 1, 2006, 9:12:29 PM
That is so cool!

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~daaaamm May 1, 2006, 9:19:16 PM
:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

it is so awesome and cool man...
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~MrMonday May 1, 2006, 9:31:28 PM
it could use some varying line widths to give the picture a better sense of direction.

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~GreenteaCat May 1, 2006, 10:12:54 PM
Clasic yet beautiful ..... very nice !!! :D

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~binka4wing May 1, 2006, 10:54:13 PM
I like the way everything is very fluid, and very simple.
It's a good effect ^_^

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~the-reaper May 1, 2006, 10:59:06 PM
personally i think this is an amazing work of simplicity. "breathtaking" could be a good adjective... but maybe that's just me

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~euklid May 1, 2006, 11:38:00 PM
omg i ENVY your lines!!!!!!!
how do you do that? full hand control

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*Reaper0collossus May 1, 2006, 11:57:42 PM
Very very nice I can't control lines like that digitally if it kills me (or if i'm really patient) very nice work and grats on the new logo in red
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