Setting Art

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I recently did some visual development work for a short VR film by Studio Geppetto. Here are two of the background illustrations that I did. Obviously the same location but in different seasons.  It was quite the challenge to create these designs and apart from the fact that during the time I worked for 12-15 hours everyday, it was a lot of fun to work on this project! 

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Messy painting of a certain outlaw’s hideout ;]

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The enchanted waters at the nearby falls were an excellent addition to benevolent potions and salves of all sorts - if you could keep the resident wisps at bay long enough to steal a bit.

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Environment painting for my Vis Dev portfolio :)

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Cover illustration for a magazine called “Metro Guide” being distributed thought metro stations in Tokyo through December 2017. This edition is Christmas / city light up themed, so I tried to recreate this sparkly effect with watercolors and masking fluid! Number of copies: around 1 000 000. 今回も「メトロガイド」の表紙を担当しました！12月号はイルミネーション特集とのことで、水彩で光を一つずつ描いてます。今年も雪が降ったらイルミネーションとのコラボが綺麗そうです。

Tools: * Lines: Mitsu-bishi HI UNI F to 6B grade pencils * Paper: White Watson 300g/m watercolor paper * White: Holbein masking fluid * Colors: my custom 48 colors set and 48 colors Schmincke set. ツール詳細 * 紙：　ミューズ ホワイトワトソン　300g * 下描き：　Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni　鉛筆 * ホワイト： 　ホルベイン マスキングインク * 着色：　48色のシュミンケ水彩セット

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A sketch I did based on the old town streets we saw with Kana on our trip to Kanazawa and Kaga-shi. I didn’t want to paint exactly what I saw on the photos we took there but imagined a street that is an amalgam of some of the interesting places I remembered.

Tools: Paper: HOLBEIN Waterford white 300g/m cold pressed cotton paper A5 size sketchbook Lines: Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni pencil 3B Colors: my main 48 color Schmincke set

かな（tekumushi)と一緒に石川県の金沢と加賀へ行ってきました。その中で見た町の雰囲気を参考に描いたスケッチです。写真の通りではなくいろんなところを合わせて、見たい町を描いてみました！

ツール詳細 * 紙：　ウォーターフォード水彩紙　ナチュラルホワイト　中目 　300g * 下描きと線画：　Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni　３B　鉛筆 * 着色：　48色のシュミンケ水彩セット

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Choe Jibum

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We often go with Kana to used books stores to find interesting materials. Last time I bought an old album about Japanese bridges and found in it one that I know pretty well - The Full Moon Bridge in the Koishikawa Korakuen Japanese garden. I go there to paint often because it’s one of the few gardens that don’t mind if you use a tripod (or two).

I did this picture during a pretty long session (about 5 hours). I first made a really basic sketch in 2H pencil and then painted with my Schmincke set. The foliage proved to be really difficult to paint in this style with just watercolours so I used some white poster colour paint (NIKKER brand) and mixing it with the watercolours added some details.

The light kept changing drastically because of fast moving clouds and I got rained upon halfway through the painting. I managed to finish it somehow just before a huge storm approached.  

Technical stuff:

Medium: HOLBEIN saunders WATER FORD natural 300g/m2 cold pressed F4

Sketch:  Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni pencil 2H

Colours: My Schmincke 48 colours watercolours set

White details: NICKER poster colour

面白い資料を探しによく古本屋へ行きます。最近手に入れた日本の有名な橋が載っている写真集で、よく知っている橋をみつけました。絵描きに三脚を使える、小石川後楽園にある円月橋。

長いセッション（５時間）の間でこの橋を描いてみました。かなり固い２Hの鉛筆で軽いスケッチを描いた上で、シュミンケの水彩で着色しました。葉っぱが多すぎて、こんなスタイルだと水彩だけでは足りなかったので白いポスターカラーも使いました。

描いている途中で雨に降られて、雲の流れが早く光もすごいペースで変わっていました。大方描き終わった時に嵐が来たので、今回は本当にぎりきりでした。

ツール詳細  

紙：ホルベイン工業（株）ウォーターフォード水彩紙　ナチュラルホワイト　300g 

下描き：Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni　鉛筆 　2H 

着色：48色のシュミンケ水彩セット 

白ディテール：ニッカー　ポスターカラー

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