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I gots some art!
I wanted to do a really fiddly drawings with micron pens with lots of inane little details. I also wanted to do a lady in Heian court dress. So: Two birds, one stone, art happened. I decided to do a lady fleeing the scene with some state secrets of some kind in the scroll she's carrying. She's wearing the juunhitoe or twelve-layer kimono that was popular among ladies of the Heian court. It is EXTREMELY unlikely that a woman wearing this many layers of clothing would be going at any appreciable speed, but maybe there's someone in more practical clothing right around the corner she can pass the scroll to.
I purposefully wanted her features to be very flat to draw all of the attention to the patterns on her various kimono. I colored in her lips to add some contrast in her face and to carry that red into the overwhelming white expanse toward the top of the drawing. I left her hair for last because I just didn't know what I wanted to do with it. Once I did the background (with Ohuhu markers) I really liked the contrast between the white hair and the dark background. So I baaaaarely shaded the hair with the palest marker I have and called it a day.
I'm happy with her, overall! I wish I'd been a little more meticulous with some of the details, but this is SO MUCH MORE fiddly than I usually do, so I'm still pleased with how she came out.
Click to enlarge:
Available as a print via Deviantart
I wanted to do a really fiddly drawings with micron pens with lots of inane little details. I also wanted to do a lady in Heian court dress. So: Two birds, one stone, art happened. I decided to do a lady fleeing the scene with some state secrets of some kind in the scroll she's carrying. She's wearing the juunhitoe or twelve-layer kimono that was popular among ladies of the Heian court. It is EXTREMELY unlikely that a woman wearing this many layers of clothing would be going at any appreciable speed, but maybe there's someone in more practical clothing right around the corner she can pass the scroll to.
I purposefully wanted her features to be very flat to draw all of the attention to the patterns on her various kimono. I colored in her lips to add some contrast in her face and to carry that red into the overwhelming white expanse toward the top of the drawing. I left her hair for last because I just didn't know what I wanted to do with it. Once I did the background (with Ohuhu markers) I really liked the contrast between the white hair and the dark background. So I baaaaarely shaded the hair with the palest marker I have and called it a day.
I'm happy with her, overall! I wish I'd been a little more meticulous with some of the details, but this is SO MUCH MORE fiddly than I usually do, so I'm still pleased with how she came out.
Click to enlarge:
Available as a print via Deviantart
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Date: 2019-03-15 02:44 pm (UTC)From: