letting the red crane go

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For some time certain thought was tickling my mind, and it was the idea of drawing a lady wearing a kimono. Maybe it's because I haven't been doing an art inspired by Japanese culture in quite a long time. At first I've got no idea how to compose a picture, or which colours I should choose. Finally I came up with usage of a contrast, and with an addition of something symbolic.

Below You could look at my work - letting the red crane go.

letting the red crane go, watercolour crayons on a watercolour paper, 19,7 x 14,5 cm.

cosy stroll

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Today I would like to present the new work from the series Wild Fantasy. This series consists of the black-and-white pictures with colourful accent, made with pens. 

The ideas for these pictures come from doodles. You see, I like doodling so much, and sometimes I create something which starts living rent-free in my imagination. These doodles depict ladies in fancy outfits with colourful accent, accompanied by animals, and sometimes by plants (it depends from the background chosen for the picture). On the right sidebar of this blog there is a list "My Series", and here You may see the previous works of Wild Fantasy, if You are interested.

So, after this short introduction let's start a story about the Wild Fantasy's new work with brown accent.

ENJOY!

So, one day I draw quite a fascinating rigout - a white blouse with 3 ornamental strips, and a brown skirt with one ornamental strip in lower part.

4 in 4: Autumn's Dress

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Here comes the 21st comic strip from the series the Four Seasons in Four Frames (in short: 4 in 4).

This time the main character of the story is Autumn.

PLOT:

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere Autumn is taking a stroll, 

and suddenly she notices that leaves are falling off of her dress.

As always you will find the translation of bubbles below the comic strip.

ENJOY!

imagination's swirling exuberance

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So, here comes the new work from the series Wild Fantasy which was developing for a quite long amount of time. I'm not even sure how long this post will be, it definitely will be pretty long (I hope you won't feel bored during reading this).

Before I get stuck in showing the creative process of today's work let me remind You what is Wild Fantasy. This series consists of the black-and-white pictures with colourful accent which were made with pens. All of them happened because of ideas recorded on paper as doodles - ideas showing ladies in outfits with colourful accent with animals, and sometimes with flowers (it depends from the background I chose for the picture - sometimes it's the environment, sometimes it's architecture). So far I've created images with colours like green, blue, red, and violet. Actually, back in 2023 I intended to make a picture with the yellow accent. Due to the certain circumstances, I've reached a conclusion that it would be better to realise a picture with violet accent first, and save the yellow one for later.

So now, let's start the long story about the Wild Fantasy with yellow accent.

Enjoy!

This doodle was the starting point. Here you see long-haired lady with white top, and a full-length skirt with spiral ornament. This skirt was supposed to be yellow. As for spiral ornament - it's supposed to be Klimt's reference. I imagined this particular figure surrounded by an environment in the style of Art Nouveau.

Pandora

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From time to time I find films concerning mythology pretty interesting (especially greek and japanese ones). One of them got my attention to Pandora and her mysterious box. So I started thinking about her, and I was wondering how would I portray Pandora?

So, that's how Pandora became my aim.

Here is the 1st draft.

I wanted to capture a curiosity not only on her face but also in her movements. She swings forward the box and reaches to it with her right arm.

Below there's a final drawing made by a brown crayon on a paper.

fantasia amalfitana in black, blue and white

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A story of today's work started with an inconspicuous doodle.

Probably it was doodled in 2019. 

I couldn't forget about a lady with a blue bun because of her monochromatic blouse. It may sound immodestly but I liked design of this blouse, and thought it would be a mistake to not draw it again. 

For a long time I was wondering how should I portray a lady wearing geometric blouse.

There were ideas to show her in some abstract dimension or in a mysterious interior in which she leans against a harp. I rejected them when I noticed a photo showing Duomo di Amalfi. Cathedral drew my attention with its marvellous deep porch. 

Window of mentioned deep porch inspired me to such an extent that it became a background in my picture.

a Portrait of Hikaru Masai

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Today I'm showing one of my aims with a great pleasure

. It is Hikaru Masai's portrait. 

Who is Hikaru Masai? 

She is a japanese singer who nowadays is performing as H-el-ical//. Previously Hikaru Masai was a part of Kalafina. This splendid japanese group disbanded in 2019. They were well-known for their songs composed for various anime series.

Previously I drew also portraits of other members of Kalafina: Keiko Kubota and Wakana Ootaki. I was so eager to draw her as well, but as a result of various obstacles I was leaving this aim over.

The time has come but I decided to change something in a style of portraying.

Green dress from a certain doodle

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One day I doodled a green dress with a patterned bottom. This inspired me to create a picture showing a woman in this dress.

Mentioned doodle.

During drawing the first sketch I was having a doubt about the length of a dress and a hairstyle. I considered a maxi dress but changed my mind quite quickly. The only change I made with her hair was turning them into more wavy.

Lady from medieval times

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Lately I was thinking that it would be so nice to draw a lady... But at the beginning I have no idea for this drawing. So I searched through my old notebooks because some of interesting ideas are usually there. Finally I found this particular doodle:

Well, as I can recall this doodle was made in 2019. I don't know why did I draw this lady in beautiful, long gown... And what did inspire me to draw her (it must have been something medieval)?

Anyway return to this doodle resulted in undermentioned drawing:

What do you think about this work? 

Lady in the cloud of smoke

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     Lately my interest in japanese culture increased much more than ever. A portrait which I'll present in today's post is an evidence of this. Well, just look at this smoking lady.

in the cloud of smoke, crayons on a brown paper, 18 x 12,9 cm.

Have a Nice Day!

Hello!

     This time I want to show you a drawing of young Japanese woman in kimono. She's sitting under the cherry blossom trees. She's also holding a cup of sake. A tiny flower petal fell to her cup (I read somewhere that it means a good luck). 

     I'm sorry for a bad quality of photography. I'm not sure if you'll be able to notice a silhouette of mount Fuji. If I could tell something about kimono pattern, it was inspirated by Klimt's beautiful work (I mean a specific motive from his mosaic made to Palais Stoclet in Brussels - the Tree of Life).

Sutekina tsuitachi o, crayons on a cardboard, 15 x 15,5 cm.

A Green-haired Woman

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In the last days of August, I suddenly drew a lady. Yes, suddenly... When I woke up today, I didn't expect that in the evening I'll draw her... A Green-haired Woman.

My next step was using crayons. And her beautiful curly hair became green... Could this be an influence of a long interest in Manga? 

Who knows... :-)

If you were me, which colours would you choose?

umbrelLady

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Do you remember a post about sketch with Girl under an Umbrella?

I still wanted to draw umbrelLady... So I made it from 30 to 31 July (and gave to Somebody ;-).

When I finished using a pencil, I tried my new black pens... and I should admit that I was a little crazy when I was drawing ornaments on skirt and umbrella or another details. :-)

Winter finally

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Winter finally, drawing, 26-27.07.2016

Meet Miss Winter. This blue-eyed, adorable girl has long, straight, blonde hair... but... ends of her hair are resulted by ice. This thing sometimes makes her annoyed.

'lost somewhere' and my thoughts

lost somewhere, drawing, crayons

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Shortly, I'll say about drawing this tall lady, standing in red dress, combing her long black hair in indefinite space. That drawing was made because of my strange tendency to drawing women. Really, I like drawing them... especially, their hair. 

'Autumn is coming'

'Autumn is coming', pastel.

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I forgot when I create this but I still remember why I drew this pastel... because of somebody important for me :-)

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In this pastel, you could see my idea of personification of Autumn in fabulous dress decorated by colorful leaves (this idea you could also see THERE!). 

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A silent park in autumn with nice bridge... I was inspirated by one photograph in small book with aphorisms.

... that's all.

Have a nice day!

Galadriel- an adventure is more colorful!

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I would like to return to my drawing of Galadriel after a short break. Now I'm (slowly) going to come to an end this drawing.

Do you see a short person in the right lower corner? Yup, this is Gimli. Ultimately, I drew him there (lately, I wasn't sure where I should 'install' him)... because of a Galadriel's hair motif :-)

Next, I used a colours. I started with a skin and a hair of our protagonists.

'Galadriel'- next chapter of adventure

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As you see, I really wanted to hint somehow a Gimli's presence... You could see it in this picture (but now he was erased by rubber). Not only you could see a probable Gimli's profile, but also you could noticed a changes in Galadriel's appearance. Do you see a difference?

• Her hairstyle. I wanted to make her hair more beautiful and fine. I even prelongated them a little bit. Obviously, she holds a long wisp of hair. In addition, I erased an unruly fringe.
• Her dress. I decided to show Galadriel in a plain, gossamer and delicate dress. Especially, I changed her neckline (plus, I added a decorative sash, made from a pretty delicate material; sash is pinned by a tiny buttons) and long sleeves. 
• I also draw a Galadriel's foot. So you could notice Galadriel in motion.
• I also wanted to draw her reaching for a scissors, so...

... and dress of Summer

'Summer', drawing, crayons

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In the break of creating a Galadriel, I decided to show you my version of Summer personification. Honestly, I'm so dissapointed of this drawing... I haven't got any idea, so it could be the reason of appearance of this dress... I overacted with colours...

I want to leave a blond- haired girl with blue eyes... probably, I will definetely change her dress... because I think that idea about repeating the '4 seasons' cycle sounds very nice. 

Have a nice day!

Dress of Winter

Winter, drawing

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This is my idea about dress of Winter.

Her dress is decorated by icicles... I imagined a personification of winter in a blue and white dress with icicles... but I wasn't sure to colour of her hair (blond? black?)... And finally, I decided for black haired personification of winter (you know, in my cycle of 4 seasons I wanted to make every personification special and unique).

It would be nice to draw them again... because I still think that I could draw them better...

Yuki Kajiura- Winter 

Have a nice day!