Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Phoenix - Hand Painted

The Hand Painted Version of Kuni battling the Phoenix, i was pleased with the turnout of the feathers on the Phoenix, the brush lets you create many different layers of colour which were perfect for the Phoenix

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Twin Tigers Colour Test

Colour test for the Twin Tigers Kuniyoshi Battle, i really like the colour scheme, i think they work well together! water colour cersion to follow

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Twin Tigers

New ink work for the next image, Kuniyoshi-Jimu battles the twin Tigers! the fur and stripes of the tigers was really fun to ink, lots of textures to try and emulate...

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Giant Koi - Hand Painted

Hand Coloured version of the Koi Battle, this is now the original image, finished using water-colours, very happy with the finished image and i learned alot from painting the koi!

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Phoenix

The second colour test for my Phoenix Battle image, i went for a less traditional colour scheme as i felt that the orange one from before was too much! i am undecided as to which one i prefer

this one reminds me of Ho-Oh from Pokemon!

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Phoenix Colour Tests

Colour test using digital to see how i should watercolour the original, really happy with the phoenix colours, and the samurai clothing colours are more what i want them to be now

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Phoenix

Ink Work for the next Kuniyoshi-Jimu series, the battle with the Phoenix

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Giant Koi Colour Tests

Colour Tests for the Samurai Kuniyoshi-Jimu image, i am leaning towards the orange Koi more as i will be creating an image of a dragon in the greenish scheme...

Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles the Giant Koi

Pencil work for my next image, my samurai Kuniyoshi-Jimu Battles a Giant Koi

Samurai 3 - Pattern Work

Pattern an Colour work applied to the new Samurai, i also attempted to give him a little tattoo on his forearm...

Samurai 3

new Samurai Work, again using the brush for all the ink work

Samurai 2 - Pattern Work

The second lot of pattern work that i created using the second samurai that i created i wanted more area in this one to allow better space for the pattern work, i think the red colours work really well on these pieces, more work to follow!

Samurai 2

second image work on samurai's, this image was created without using one of Kuniyoshi's Samurais as a reference, i feel he looks a little too chunky compared to the last one, the pose also looks a little static and boring but i wanted to focus on the clothing

Shigemori - Colour and Pattern

some more play with the samurai work, i added some patterns using some brushes to give it the authentic printed fabric look! thanks to Marielle on deviant for the asian brushes! here is the link, lots of good brushes to use! http://mouritsada-stock.deviantart.com/

Shigemori - Colour

trying something else a bit different than normal by colouring with photoshop rather than using the inks and watercolour, i like the look of a screenprint that they give, the grey wash is my favorite!

Shigemori - Brushwork

practicing my inking with a brush instead of a pen, i already love it! its so much more fluid than using pens, the stance was copied from one of Kuniyoshi's Samurai

Framed and Singed!

framed and singed!

Oni Demons Revised

i had to tweak the image slightly as the original came out too harsh when printing, i created a smooth layer of flat colour underneath each layer of brush strokes to fill in the spaces where my watercolour painting was a bit lazy!

Oni Demons Digitised

Finished Oni Demons, the top is a version for print using the original paint work

the bottom image was created using a rough colour test that i really liked the look of, one of those 'happy' accidents!

Oni Demons

New image created inspired by japanese Oni demons from Folklore...

A Pair of Guardians 2

a little bit of digital play to finish it off

A Pair of Guardians

The Finished Fu Dogs, first image that incorporates drawing inks and watercolours, no photoshop here! those colours are that bright!

Fu Dog Pencils and Colourwork

initial sketch and colour work for my next image...

Fu Dog Test

carrying on with the Japanese theme, here is the process of my test for a guardian Fu Dog, will post the next one when its done!

Koi 2 Finished!

the final scanned image and the image after i played around and added a few things in photoshop, really happy with it!

New Koi Work colour

colour finished! next up is the ink work, the ink really makes the image come alive!

New Koi Work

Work on a new koi image that i hope to mass print and sell as a numbered and signed image

colour work to come...

The Panda Bakery

Logo Created for the Panda Bakery who specialise in yummy Cupcakes!

Kuniyoshi - Samurai Prints 2

Kuniyoshi - Samurai Prints

I love Kuniyoshi's work, i recently purchased a book of his samurai prints and i wanted to practice the style to eventualy draw my own, here is the first attempt.

Koi Finished!

Koi Picture Progression 2

the final stages of the koi progression inking of the fish was really fun although the scales were tedious!