Sumie Painting Lesson Basic

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This sumi-e video tutorial includes ; ①Preparation for Drawing, ②Draw Bamboo Leaves, ③Side Stroke(Soku-hitsu), ④Size of fude • 1. Make sumi ink • Put water in the hole part of suzuri. • Have a sumi bar and dip it into the water. • Grind sumi bar on the no water part of suzuri. • Hold sumi bar with 45 degree toward the surface of suzuri. • Grind sumi bar with very little power and grind it like drawing circle. • Imagine that tiny particle coming out of the ink bar. • The sense of sumi ink rises meanwhile. • Done when the water turns out the black ink. • 2. Put sumi into Fude • Put fude into the water. • Put fude onto the clothe in order to wipe water out. • Don't move fude, just put it on softly. • Shape the tip of the hair of fude(fude-saki) sharpened. • Put sumi ink into fude in the suzuri. • Squeeze sumi ink out of fude in the small white plate. • Draw fude on the edge of the small plate, to squeeze sumi out. • 3. Calibrate the sumi ink black color • Put the water in fude. • Squeeze water out onto the sumi in the plate and mix it. • Squeeze out the whole mixed sumi-water, which turns out the light black. • Then, ladle that light black sumi into fude. • Dip the fude-saki into the sumi ink in suzuri. • Shape fude on the clothe. • You all set for drawing. • 4. Draw Bamboo leaves : The example of straight stroke • Scratch back with the tip of the hair of fude (fude-saki) • Move down fude • Pushing fude onto the paper with moving down. (Two actions : moving and pushing) • The part of pushing fude will be the swell of the bamboo leaf • Then, Pulling fude off gradually along with the down-move of fude.(Two actions : moving and pulling ) • Pull fude off with the fude-saki in order to get the bamboo leaf edge. • If you pull fude with the body of fude hair, the edge shape of bamboo leaf will be round. • In the end part of bamboo leaf drawing, fude leans down and the fude hair positioned at your side. • See the video the fude position change along with the fude hair. • 5. Side stroke : • Prepare fude ( very very important ) • Lean down fude with 0 degree at the paper. • Use the whole fude hair. • This technique apply to the tree trunk. • 6. The size of fude • Fude hair is 3.5 cm length. • Made from the weasel. • I use only this size fude for all my works. • The change fude hair shape and control fude movement is essential for sumi-e technique. • Enjoy :) • 日本語 : http://sumi-e.jp/draw/basic.htm • My NFT sumi-e collection on Opensea • https://opensea.io/collection/kazu-sh...

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