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The Shadow Festival - Naoko
8B pencil and watercolors
We’ve made this illustration for our new comic book so it can be offered with preorders. This time, we used a very grainy watercolor paper. It made the lines difficult to draw but added an interesting texture to the colors.
We wouldn’t use it for comics pages though: it would make tiny details nearly impossible to draw.
It’s very rare we use that kind of paper so it’s was an interesting experience.
If you’re interested in learning more about this character, or preorder the book + this illustration, just check this link:
https://www.issekinicho.fr/editions/
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Our Naoko, dreaming…
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Notre Naoko, rêveuse…
#issekinicho #watercolor #aquarelle #japon #japan #ateliersento #水彩 #illustration #drawing #art #lafêtedesombres
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Olivier en train de reporter les motif d’un vêtement de Naoko pour l’illustration de l’ex-Libris offert avec les précommandes ( lien en bio). Sur cette vidéo, on voit qu’il n’appuie pas sur le crayon pour que le motif soit simplement représenté à l’aquarelle.
***Olivier drawing Naoko’s clothes pattern. He almost doesn’t press the pencil so the pattern will be represented only in watercolour.
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The Doll Shop - a free horror game set in Japan
️Want to play a spooky game for Halloween?
Our new game, in collaboration with ECV Bordeaux students, “The Doll Shop”,is a dark tale set in the Japanese countryside. Explore a small village, meet the locals and choose your fate between 3 different endings… Or are you already doomed?
Play it for free: https://ateliersento.itch.io/dollshop
Available in English, Japanese and French.
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Vous voulez un jeu qui fait peur pour Halloween ?
Notre nouveau jeu en collaboration avec les étudiants de l’ ECV Bordeaux, “ The Doll Shop”, est un conte noir qui se déroule dans la campagne japonaise. Explorez un petit village, rencontrez ses habitants et choisissez votre destinée entre 3 fins différentes… Ou bien êtes vous déjà condamné?
Jouez gratuitement : https://ateliersento.itch.io/dollshop
Disponible en français, anglais et japonais.
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ハロウィンに怖いゲームはいかがですか？
私たちの新作ゲームは ECV Bordeaux の学生たちとのコラボ「人形屋」。日本の田舎で巻き起こるスリラーです。小さな村を探検して、村人に出会って、結末は三つのうちのどれか一つ…あなたはもうダメかも？
無料でお楽しみいただけます。
https://ateliersento.itch.io/dollshop
フランス語、英語、日本語版がございます。
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Kappa’s Dream - making of a yôkai illustration
This video tutorial explains how we paint an illustration using watercolors. This illustration is part of a yôkai exhibition that will be displayed at Gallery Craole, in Niigata, Japan.
Tools:
- paper: Canson Montval 300gsm
- pen: UniPin 0.3
- brushes: raphael sofAqua 12
- watercolor: Winsor & Newton
Namazu - Yokai exhibition in Japan
This one is a namazu (catfish). Namazu are often represented in Japanese Ukiyo-e (prints) with human behaviour. As you can see on the second picture, the catfish has incredible whiskers. When I found the idea and drew the sketch (picture 1), I was kind of remembering this picture, that’s why I drew very flexible whiskers.
As you can see on one of the pictures, we used our own fan as reference and origami washi papers to find ideas for the pattern and the colors of the yukata.
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Painting Miyazaki - Making of video
We published a new making-of video! This one explains how we painted a portrait of Hayao Miyazaki for the special edition of the book written by Gael Berton and published by Third Editions. It’s our first voiced video in English! We hope you’ll like it.
PRAGUE Travel diary - Day 2
Today, we walk in the old town and discover the incredible Czech marionettes world. In some of these gallery/shop, you can discover a hundreds puppets made by local artists like in a museum.
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In a street, we find an old wooden sculpture that probably used to be a marionette theatre front sculpture. It’s a little bit creepy, we love it and decide to draw it on the opening page of our sketchbook.
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It’s time to meet @mattjabbar and@tekumushi who just arrived in Prague! Mateusz and Kana are both great artists and we are so happy to spend a week drawing watercolor sketches together in Prague!
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@mattjabbar is a master of painting watercolor backgrounds. He worked for Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) and now, he’s making his own animation films (he created the short commercial animation about the shôgi player Karolina Styczunska : https://youtu.be/2ZtfwRlTpHA) and recently published a beautiful book of watercolor Tokyo Storefronts ( https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/works/tokyo_storefronts_book/).
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@tekumushi, his wife, draws very lively and refreshing comics. Her characters are warm and touching. She made this incredible Inktober black and white comics series about everyday stories in Edo period ( http://kanaurbanowicz.com/inktober-2017) and a colored series picturing the warm and fuzzy daily life of a Polish - Japanese couple of artists in Tokyo, Ippun Nipun, that can be read for free in English ( https://tapas.io/series/1-pun-2-pun#_=_)
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Before starting to sketch, we’re having dinner in a cute canteen restaurant kind of managed by a grandma team (Havelská Koruna). The food is good. This is our second goulash!
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No time to waste: we start our first sketch together! No need for a long walk, you can sit anywhere: everything is interesting to draw in Prague.
While we draw, we make breaks to observe each other’s work. It’s very interesting to see our differents techniques and notice we don’t see the same thing even if the subject is he same.
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