Sumie - Bamboo for beginners -

Name: Sumie - Bamboo for beginners -
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Zōhō techinique

Created bySumie Art Studio

Last updated 7/2018

English

What you'll learn

You will be able to draw a bamboo by Zōhō technique.

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 35m total length

はじめに6:07
Bamboo stem6:04
Bamboo branch4:22
Learn to draw bamboo branches by extending longer branches up the stem, placing them alternately on the left and right, and avoiding starting from the same point or low placements.
Bamboo leaf10:33
Bamboo (put all elements and draw full composiotion)8:51

Requirements

rice paper, brush, black ink and water

Description

The pictures drawn by Sumi (black ink) are generally called ‘Suiboku-ga’ or ‘Sumi-e’ in Japan. It is said that ‘Sumi-e is the most popular way of saying overseas. Sumi-e basically uses only black ink but sometimes uses a little bit of other pigments as well. Sumi-e with other pigments is called Bokusaiga.
Sumie uses various techniques of gradation, shading, bleeding, blurring. Such techniques can be obtained through changing the amount of water added to the ink.

At this time, the subject is "Bamboo". There are two kinds of techinique about leaves, "Zōhō" and Rohō". "Zōhō" techinique means drawing leaves by using one tone ink without gradation. On the other hand, "Zōhō" techinique means drawing leaves by using gradation of ink. In this course, you can master Zōhō" techinique.

Who this course is for:

beginners