Oiran

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Some weeks ago my friend Laura asked me if I wanted to order some art supplies with her, I finally did and I ordered a Prismacolor Blue 2H pencil and a pack of Sakura Pigma Micron fineliners. I got them yertserday, so I decided to give them a try.

At first I wasn't very happy with the pencil, I mean, I can see the blue better than the grey but it's more difficult to erase it although it's an special pencil for sketching but, anyway, it seems that the watercolors covered it pretty well. On the other hand, I'm very happy with the fineliners because they are water-resistant and they have a pretty dark color but, you need to be careful when you pass your eraser over it, because it'll eat the blacks!

About the drawing, I wantd to draw Chizuru Yukimura (from Hakuouki ~Shinsengumi Kitan~) on her Oiran (NOT GEISHA) outfit for a long time, so I though this would be the perfect opportunity. At first I thought I was going to die with all the details of her kimono, but I decided not to overload it with all the details and I ended up doing just the patterns on the red part of it.

I wanted to do it in a Art Nouveau style, since I love it A LOT, so I searched for some frame refferences until I got this. I must say that I'm pretty proud of it, since I had to remove the dust from my compass tool, which I hadn't used for years!

The piece was painted using water colors and some metallic pencils and markers for the details.

Of course, I had to edit the colors A LOT to make them look better once I scanned it, here's a comparisson between the unedited piece and the edited one (you must know that scanners ALWAYS kills the colors! so a bit of edditing is always reccomended). At the end I decied to add some japanese patterns to the background.