Brush Calligraphy and Paintings

[Observant]

I'm not sure if anyone's interested in brushes of the far east, but recently I've started drawing traditional chinese paintings, since I've been doing calligraphy almost all my life, this turns out to be quite easy. Chinese brushes are also the basis on which most Japanese stuff derives from, and I've been drawing some of that as well.

 

What I want to try to do is take this art style, my limited skill in it, and apply it to FFXIV sceneries. To that effect, if anyone is interested, and has some amazing screenshots, I'd love to take one and try to turn it into a painting.

 

Here's a sample I threw together in 5 minutes to test my brush and the new paper I bought.

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[Alothia]

That's awesome! I've always loved this style! I can't wait to see more of the scenery. Very cool~

[Observant]

That's awesome! I've always loved this style! I can't wait to see more of the scenery. Very cool~

 

Thank you friend! Any scenery from FFXIV you can recommend for me to draw?

[Alothia]

I have some pretty nice scenic screens in this album if you'd like to take a look at them!

[Varus]

Great to see some unique art styles being showcased. Can't wait to see what you and Ship come up with next!

[Nightsha]

Oriental brush style is my favorite! So jealous...

 

I don't think I have any great scenery shots of FFXIV but I will most definitely be excited to see what you turn others' screenshots into.

[Observant]

Thank you guys for the comments, now I must do this! -fire lights up in his eyes-

 

And special thanks to Alothia for the album, I'll start from the first one and work my way down!

[Observant]

Okay, here is a preliminary draft of things. I drew in two styles, one an abstract western style that I feel didn't really work as well as I hoped with the brush. The other is, while not completely traditional, more closely aligned with traditional techniques. Comments! Biting criticism, as much as possible!

 

edit: Also, I need to adjust the f-stop settings on my camera, no need to point that out for now.

edit 2: Also, top = traditional, bottom = more abstract

 

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[Kari Illderthane]

Your art very much reminds me of the Borderlands game openings keep up the good work! *Jelly of all artist on this forum*

[Nightsha]

I love how the strokes of the top one give such gorgeous, subtle detail, especially on the mountain and bridge (the bridge is my favorite part).

 

The simplicity of the second one is beautiful, but the towers look a bit odd to me. But I also have no artistic talent, so I could just be mistaken when it came to the towers.

 

*waiting for more of your stunning pieces*

[Eva]

This is a really lovely depiction of Ishgard!!  Beautiful work!  :love:

[Aysun]

I really like the bridge in the top one for some reason. .-. Pretty~

[Weffrey]

I look forward to viewing more of this style! Amazing job!

[Observant]

Thanks guys for the amazing encouragement! I've literally just started drawing these things, so to see everyone actually not calling it ugly is very cool.

 

Having said that, please give me lots of biting criticism!

 

Also, whoever can tell me where this is ... gets lots of cookies and love. All the filename told me was "FF-RR-RW1.jpg" D: ... now I'm actually not even sure if this is FFXIV anymore.

 

Edit: I did add the blossom and the tree, the bottom left of the image was too silly to draw.

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[Rhostel]

I cannot criticise your work. You are doing things I have no experience with. I'll just say you do a pretty darn good job of giving the impression of a thing without actually replicating the thing.

 

Also, I wanna say that's Limsa Lominsa, probably? Or maybe Ishgard from an unfamiliar angle?

[Ronberku]

I've always been a big of eastern style of art. Seeing this typical brush stroke type of drawings is a pleasure to the eye . Please keep them up. It's something I eventually want to try out myself.

[Ryanti]

Or maybe Ishgard from an unfamiliar angle?

 

For some reason, I found this statement funny, lol.

 

"Well, usually Painters would paint Ishgard from the direction of the Southeast. It is quite taboo to paint it from the Northwest."

 

lol. Sorry. I'm a child.

[Varus]

Great stuff! Looking forward to more!

[Moonfire]

Nice to see someone display a new style. I love them. I am completely ignorant on this style so I figured I would ask, Is the black and "white" typical of this style or do you incorporate color in some as well?

[Alothia]

It's definitely the walkways of Limsa Lominsa~ Beautiful as always!

[Observant]

Yea, turns out it is. It even said there in the metadata ... but who ever goes through those.

 

I could totally see a city not allowing people to paint it from one side cause it looks disproportionate!

[Loki]

WHY DOES IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO GET AROUND TO DIS?! 

 

*throws gil at Obs* Makes us a guild Banner and website background when we finally come up with a LS name!