{"id":720,"date":"2021-02-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=720"},"modified":"2021-02-10T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:02:24","slug":"hey-its-brushwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/hey-its-brushwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, it&#8217;s Brushwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, you just have to go back to basics and see if you&#8217;ve actually improved or just <em>think<\/em> so. I pulled this figure detail from the <em>Heiji Monogatari<\/em>, which details a series of civil wars in ancient Japan between the Heike and Genji clans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-05.png\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-05.png\">heijimonogatari01-05.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This one, I just gave a light ink wash to his robe. (Plus a little detail color on his arrow fletching.) Hey, that looks all right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-06.png\">heijimonogatari01-06.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This one, I used light color washes on his clothing, and a bit of peach pink on his flesh. At some point, I flipped this image left-to-right in my library. His sword is on the wrong side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-07.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-07.png\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/sca\/emaki\/heijimonogatari01-07.png\">heijimonogatari01-07.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One more with watercolor washes. Maybe I can actually learn how to do this? If the outline for the soldier looks a little crude, he is fairly small in the original scroll, and I only have a very bad black+white image in my reference. These images will make good scroll for minor archery recognition, I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just have to go back to basics and see if you&#8217;ve actually improved or just think so. I pulled this figure detail from the Heiji Monogatari, which details a series of civil wars in ancient Japan between the Heike and Genji clans. This one, I just gave a light ink wash to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,417,419,3,5],"tags":[430,421,429,8,218,422,423],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-archery","tag-emaki","tag-heiji-monogatari","tag-japanese","tag-painting","tag-sumi","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}