Sumi-e Ink Landscape
Illustration · Sumi-E · Ink Wash
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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A sumi-e ink wash landscape on absorbent rice paper. Layered mountains in two or three tonal washes of black ink, dry brush drag giving texture on the rock faces, mist rendered as bare untouched paper, a single tiny boat on the water for scale. Roughly seventy percent of the page left empty. A small red seal in the lower corner. No colour except the seal, no outlines, brush marks visible throughout.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1024 x 1465
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Give a number for the empty space. Seventy percent produces real restraint.
- 2Mist as bare paper, not white paint. That is the whole technique.
- 3One tiny element for scale, and nothing else.
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Bamboo study
a few stems and leaves, nothing else
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snow as bare paper with the faintest grey wash
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one pale ochre wash on the foreground rocks
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