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NISSAN-J — Okami Amaterasu - Bloom
Published: 2008-04-24 17:34:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 19999; Favourites: 579; Downloads: 34
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Please comment and/or +fav ^^?Full view is definitely recommended to see the shoddy details XD.
Originally for the Okami contest. I'm slightly disappointed with the winners that the DA staff picked -_-.
I tried to show what Amaterasu's Bloom might look like after the brush technique. Dead land suddenly sprouts grass where she stands (and glowing yellow Praise
) and the celestial cherry blossom petals glow and start becoming part of the tree from the top. The clean water ebbs towards the tree as well. I added in the kanji because I thought the white border too plain. Read from top down:
O - kami (wolf/god) (haha pun!)
Eien (eternity)
Saisei (rebirth)
taiyou (sun)
souzou (creation)
suuhai (worship)
shugo (protection)
shinrai (trust)
Satsugaisha (slayer)
Densetsu (legend)
Yuuki (courage)
For the record, I don't actually know how to read or write kanji and just copied some things online, so my strokes may not make any sense .
I'm really inept with the sumi-e style, but I tried to add this "painted" feel with black "ink' by outlining a few things. For the ground texture, I skewed the parchment background provided in the resources pack. For the water, I layered the cloud/swirl parts of the same parchment background.
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Comments: 135
Beautiful! I love the perspective and all those little details.
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Wow! 
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If you like Okami, would you care to join our group? We specify in quality fanworks like this!
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Hello! I'm glad you like my artwork, but I don't think copying the lines of my picture will in any way be beneficial for either of us 
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I think my love for okami and the beauty of this picture made my brain explode
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that is really really beautiful, i think you did a really good job on this ^^
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Wow, that's so beautiful and amazing 
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can i use some of the outline for a school project im doing?
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That depends. What are you doing and how are you going to do it?
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im making a wall hanging in textiles and id be using the cherry blossom tree and the water from your picture and instead of okmai i would have a geisha looking into the water and just blue sky and no mountains.
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If you're going to be literally copy-and-pasting my artwork and just editing out Okami, then no, that's against my terms of use. If the point of creating the wall hanging is to learn how to create a design on fabric material, basically to use fabric instead of paper as media, I think it would be less beneficial for you to use my picture than to come up with your own novel design.
Are you hand drawing? Print pressing? Doing stencils? Anything the equivalent of tracing or copy&pasting/cutting is not something I'm fond of. I need more of an idea of how you're going to physically execute this.
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you dont have to worry now, i have another idea. sorry for wasting your time with the replys
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....this is one of the best Okami fanarts i've ever seen! +fav!!
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Holy crap this is beautiful, I love the detail on the tree
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extremly good and expertly done!!! 
who were the winners??
lol BEST GAME EVER!!
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[link] I think the post has everything I was griping about XD; it's, of course, no fault of the winners themselves, but of the Deviant Art staff for being so lazy when they picked the recipients of the award. I listed all the other pictures I thought merited more attention.
And thank you for the comment 
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wow those entries are so awesome!! thanks for the link!!
of course i like yours . . .I LOVED it. especially the clever thing with the praise orbs, i didnt notice until i read your comment XD
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Haha, followed you here from Subeta. o:
I was just playing this game on Wii. *u*
Absolutely gorgeous work~ n_n
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This is truely beautiful. *__*
It shows what the game is mainly about.
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This is a nice concept and well made picture. ^_^
*favs*
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hi~ I just found this place by chance and register to appreciate u bringing so gorgeous work to us here~
wonder if there's the full view without the watermark available?
thx again
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Hi, thanks for stopping by. I'm really grateful that you like my picture
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Wonderful work! The different colour hues work together beautifully!
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Thank you! One of the first times I used such a colorful palette
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Really awesome. Looks like the Shinsu fields to me.
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Could be Shinshu Fields
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Yeah, like right near that guardian sapling tree there. You're welcome.
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Beautiful!
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