Tengu is a Japanese mythological creature usually attributed with shape shifting abilities and general trickery/ I thought it would be a lovely creature to draw with all the feathers flying around and supernatural whizz effects I could add to it.
You can download in super high resolution for free as a desktop wallpaper here:
1. Normal screen aspect ratio (4:3):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6557137187_0b63ca1e35_o.jpg
2. Wide screen aspect ratio (16:9):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6557137197_a2d64e1db6_o.jpg
3. iPhone4 size (640x960) but also works on iPhone3:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6560056093_61d453e1c7_o.jpg
The artwork began life as a random pen sketch in my notebook. I just wanted to test out my new pigment fineliners to see how thin I could draw the barbs in the feathers:
I asked Matt over at Scramble, who designs all sorts of cool Japanese themed apparel, for some words in kanji, and voila, lots of inking up with pens, a bit of Photoshop trickery and there you have it, Tengu!
From next year, I've decided to separate my art based posts onto a new blog - Meerkatsu Art - and my more BJJ focused posts on this one. I'll still drop in copious design-based entries on the main Meerkatsu blog and there may even be a lot of repetition. As long as it is strongly connected to BJJ, eg a logo, or t-shirt with that theme, it will go on here, and all art posts go on the Meerkatsu art blog. Confused? so am I. We'll see how it pans out.
:)
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