Youji in Kimono

About damn time! This piece took me longer than it should've and I gotta say I have very mixed feelings about the process. It feels like a failure but also a success to me. It was a failure in the sense that I just could not paint it the way I wanted to. The colors I chose just didn't work, I would constantly delete layers and end up back in square one. I was frustrated for some time. After analyzing it a little close, I thought "Hm...maybe painting it won't work but this piece definitely begs for some texture on it. Let's try it." I was going for a bit of a style by Ayumi Kasai (I absolutely love how she places texture in her pieces!) and tried out using some texture myself, and I gotta say, it only went well after that. So in this manner, it was a success.

I have not intention of drawing only in flat colors, but I definitely not confident in my painting skills. Color and value simply terrifies me. I need to do more studies -.- By the way, the textures I used here were created by the lovely Gimei in case you would like to use them as well!

Do visit their page: gimei.deviantart.com/
The lovely textures used: gimei.deviantart.com/art/Japan…

Okay...I am done for today. Kimchii out!