WOW Great Work!
The back images are great and the Eye are very nive and you have a good Calligraphy ^^
Artist Comment
There! At last the clock strikes 12 AM....*click*-entering Jigoku Tsushin~
Having learned the shading/drawing techniques & styles from lecturers in my university, I've decided to apply them into my favourite anime [Jigoku Shoujo]. All thanks to them :) .
The features in this doujinshi are among the prominent ones known in this anime, in which I choose to use some of those not yet been well used in this gallery. Besides, its style posed here are 'broken & hidden', that is, not fully shown but still well understood by viewers. Some of the objects are deliberately arranged to project significances in them . As you see, this picture introduces Enma Ai. The background indirectly portrays her characteristics. There are:
upper left: flower = Enma's mystical
powers to deport sinners to hell.
lower left: spinning wheel = Used by
Enma's grandma (her caretaker relative) in spinning treads
centre above: voodoo straw doll = The
item sent by Enma to help avenge her client. Note-The cobweb in ray-like
form around the straw doll means the trap Enma's client will have to endure once the red tread is untied.
centre below: lighted candle = By untying
the straw doll's red tread comes the compensation of submitting one's soul to hell, which locks his/her
destiny in a candle.
around the cobweb: willow tree leaves =
Symbolizes loneliness.
The uniqueness I've created would be Enma's partially-shown face, in order to emphasize her eerie red eye(s). This is to re-inforce her uncanniness within the innocentness of a child like Enma Ai. At the same time, the mist around the background signifies the mysterious aura of such Hell Girl [Enma Ai].
The vertically written calligraphy reads [ENMA AI] ('Enma' in Kanji characters while 'Ai' in Hiragana characters), while the horizonly pencil-written words reads Enma's catchphrase "Would you try dying for once?" [ippen, shinde miru?]
Time: 4 hours of planning & sketching; 6 hours in perfecting it (3+3)
Materials used: Art block paper, graphite pure 6b pencil, 2B pencil, tissue (for
smudging & shade tones), eraser (for glowing white lines within darkness), Chinese ink and medium-sized Chinese
brush (for calligraphy)
Credits: Japan Aniplex's ANI-COM 2005 special autumn issue
magazine.
Fot your information, this doujinshi is related to my next one>>>Sakasama no Chou
Comments are welcome! Hope you'll enjoy this! Domo arigato gozaimas!~
~O miserable shadow clad in darkness! Hurting and disdaining people, a karmic soul drowning in sin...Would you try dying for once?~
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Comments
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plastickleo Nov 15, 2006
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fireflywishes Retired Moderator Nov 16, 2006
A very well thought out piece kokuyu! I love how everything in your artwork is symbolic. The shading is quite well done so that everything kind of blends together... Your calligraphy is also really good! I wish I could get mine to look that good! XD (Though the "i" character seems a little scrunched at the bottom of the page there... ^_^') Keep up the great work! :D
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Toya999 Nov 16, 2006
ara ara.....great drawing.....so nice.....kawaiiiii.....so evil too...i like it lots....to ma favs definately....great work Kokuyu-kun.......very pretty drawing.
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Yu-huang Nov 18, 2006
Wow! I am amazed at what you learned at your university. Maybe I should transfer to your school and learn how to draw like that.
Keep up the amazing work.+fav
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royaldarkness Nov 20, 2006
Another great work from you!
This is really amazing, I'm practically drooling over your work lol XD
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enchantressinthedark Nov 23, 2006
Nyaaaaaa Manda directed me here to your beautiful artwork! *____* SUGOI NEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I didn't know that you're soooooooo talented in drawing! You should be on my watchlist, cause I can keep track of your beautiful works XD The calligraphy writing is awesome! And I love your concept for the background, all the important things in the show ^^ And you drew Enma Ai very well, especially her haunted big eyes ^^ Keep up the good work!
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xxcopyright Dec 01, 2006
ohh, what a lovely drawing XD
me need to learn how to draw like that O__o (the eyes are always the hardest) >.<
anyways, wonderful work xD Hope to see more!
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Melisandre Mar 15, 2007
Lovely piece I like the girl's eye, very enigmatic and really well done, great work!
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yukiyo Apr 29, 2007
now why does this remind me of myself? O___O
i really like this drawing~! i was immediately drawn to her eye
you have awesome calligraphy too :) :) :) i need to brush up my calligraphy TTOTT
this goes in the favourites :)
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mentis May 11, 2007
I like this piece quite a bit. It reminds me somewhat of a painting I did a while back (Uyoku). Although the styles are somewhat different, the composition has a similar feel to me.
I think the face is especially good in this. Your lines are clean and sharp, which lends a strength to her expression. Nice work :D.
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beyondmeasure Dec 18, 2007
Creepishly, superbly done!
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