Samurai Painting

[Ismail]

Hope this one works, I'll post it.
Done quickly in Painter 8. Various brushes used. Will elaborate on process if anyone's interested. :)
Still working on my Painter Skills. Caravaggio is what I want my digital paintings to look like.
I like (in no particular order) Don Seegmiller, Ron Lemen, Brian Haberlin, Laura Depuy, Justin Sweet, Jason Manley, Feng Zhu, Craig Mullins, Khang Le, Ryan Church, Doug Wheatley, Cary Nord, Kaare Andrews, Gerald Garcia, Jeff Watts, Jon Foster, Arnold Tsang, Andrew Jones, Doug Chiang, Stefan Martinere, the artists that post on the boards. ;) big inspiration aswell, (Shawn, Sammy, forgive me for not mentioning more names, I love seeing everyone's work!!! Thanks to all for sharing (the list will be endless if I keep going) and various other artists and their approaches when it comes to painting digitally and of course, with the brush and pigments ( Ingres, Frazetta, Vallejo, Bell, Rembrandt, Renoir, Degas. the list is long) ;)


Dang didn't work. :(
How do you post pics? http://
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/234TIG312U/picserver.jpeg

[mos667]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/misc.php?s=&action=bbcode
Scroll down to adding images. You have to post it on your website, if you don't have one, angelfire.com works pretty well.

[Ismail]

{exceeded bandwidth on Angel Fire.}

Many Thanks, Mos667!!! :D

[alex_86]

Well its alright, but I think it would have looked better with the type of pants that are really baggy BUT fold in at the knee into a long sock (or wrapping around the foot). These pants just make him look like some sort of skater. If you were trying to draw the 'hakama'...

http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~tomasan/k/hakama.jpg

...you should have had 5 cleats in the front and two side slits (right and left). Also, samurai would never wear their katanas on their back, so maybe a more appropriate name for this would be 'Ninja Painting' ;) Anyways other than that the painting is pretty good, oh, except for that right arm of his, it looks a bit flat. Try to imagine it as a 3d object and as circular as you can make it (thickness-wise)

[Killer Napkins]

well those pants are like kendo pants looks like.. but with smaller leg holes.. usually kendo pants are massive. of something of a freak would wear... or a kendo fighter dude :rolleyes:

edit: eh nevermind hakama pants was what i was talkin about too but the ppicture of the blue pants look weird.. this is prolly the same thing http://store3.yimg.com/I/enjutsukai_1775_143415

pants to hide your feet movement ;)

[alex_86]

Are those guys actors? The look so fake :p

[Ismail]

Hey, Thanks for taking a gander at the piece. :)

"Ninja Painting" medrawUC, I like the new title. :) Thanks. ;) Agreed on the right arm. ;)
Killer Napkins: (neat user name :D ) Thanks for the pics of the two wearing the hakamas. Exactly the look I was going for in the piece. :) With a combination of the 'mawashi'
(Sumo Wrestler's sash) <---I could be mistaken on what it's called.

Again, thanks for all who posted a reply. :)

[Fightergraf]

I've notice that you are having bandwidth problems, try http://www.free-host.com

[Ismail]

Hey, Fightergraph, thanks for the link, (so that's what the 'red x' indicates, bandwidth problemo )unfortunately this is what i get when i sign in on free-host, could be a temporary thing on their site. :(

"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"

And it doesn't list any headers. :(

[Fightergraf]

No Problem, if its busy try again later I found it very busy day. It normally is on weekends.

[Killer Napkins]

lol i dont know who those guys are ... ha i just found it on some website that were selling hakama pants... and that was the pic it had :cool:

[Ismail]

(free-host.com)

I'll try again later on. :( Thanks for the tip Fightergraf. :cool:

[alexis]

Hello,

Um, I'm not meaning to be pedantic. Especially with my first ever post on conceptart.org and all. But, theres actually six pleats on the front of Hakama and another one on the back, on each leg. They represent the seven 'parts' of bushido, Honour, Duty, etc. I just thought it would be helpfull for future artists.

The Hakama were actually invented as riding pants, much like leather chaps used by cowboys. However, the Japanese were at the time buddhist and so didn't have much leather, they used instead a lot of layers cotton. this eventually was formalised into the Hakama.

Alexis.

P.S. this is a great site that I've visited on and off for about a year now and I've always been very impressed by it. Unfortunately, I'm not possessed of any real artistic talent, unless a very good imagination counts:). So I tend to just admire the artwork done by the people here. Great site, keep up the good work.

[Ismail]

Again, thanks for everyone who dropped by to take a gander at this post. :)

Alexis: thanks for the elaboration on the form and function of the hakama. :) As the saying goes, "you can never know too much." :D More info is always useful. :)

[Tuke]

Like the chiseled face. And the veins! Noiyce!!!!:rock:

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get"

[alex_86]

Wow alexis, THAT, I did not know. Just wondering, are you interested in stuff like that, or did you just happen to know this?

Anyway, thanks for your input and welcome to the forums :D

[gaitkeepah]

Nice work. The face and color scheme looks like Marc Sylvestri's character "RiPClAw", but other then that your painting skills are off to a great start.

GaItKeEpAh

[alexis]

Originally posted by meDrawUC
Wow alexis, THAT, I did not know. Just wondering, are you interested in stuff like that, or did you just happen to know this?

Anyway, thanks for your input and welcome to the forums :D

Yeah, you could say I have a fairly heavy interest in all things Fuedal Japan. Plus martial arts and things of that kind.

Alexis.