This week's theme is art history. My entry for this week is inspired by the great artist Hokusai. He is known for his masterpiece The Great Wave off Kanagawa. I always see this painting especially in Japanese-themed places, also in clothing stores like Uniqlo, but never took the time or interest to know who is behind this great art. All I know is it has a distinct way of art style, somewhere from the old era of Japan.
Art Process
- I tried to copy exactly the wave on the painting and put Jijisaur on the frame. This idea is inspired by another art with Godzilla in it. I find it cool and funny at the same time. 😆 I manually drew those little waves as if fringes for the wave.
Source
I got more interested in Hokusai when 
- There are some available color palettes already in hex code on the internet so it is easy for me to do the coloring. The main color is blue and I feel like this color is very refreshing to the eye, of course, in combination with the wave and Mount Fuji. I did not realize that Mt. Fuji was there until I watched the movie. I thought it was part of the wave, haha. 😆 I think the sky is a tainted paper (???), so I colored it like an off-beige color similar to the painting. And then, applied the color palette for Jijisaur.
Final Art
- Here, I added the froths on the tip of the wave's fringes. I used a glitter brush and customized the size and opacity. For the clouds, I used an airbrush with a lighter shade of brown.
Though art history is my least favorite form of art, I am slowly learning about it. 😆 Probably got traumatized with my high school history class, haha! I had fun doing this art, too much fun surprisingly finished it in one sitting because I like the artist who made this masterpiece. 😁
Thanks for reading~ 💖
Software: Clip Studio Paint Pro
That is it for this art blog. I will see you at the next one!
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