Teahouse of the August Moon by Rykk
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
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Ultrafractal 4.01 - Photoshop 7
I happened across this one last night as I was making a thin shading layer for another image. The sort of Japanese vibe grabbed me - the "bamboo" and spiral "vines" - so I let it take me where it wanted to go. Since the Japanese feel, I named this after an old 1950's movie I saw as a kid. Then I Googled "kanji" - Japanese writing characters - and found the kanji characters for "Tea", "Garden", "Autumn" and "Moon" (as close as I could come to the words in the title) and drew them in with PS. I hope I got them right - Toby will probably read them and say I goofed and it really says "drank too much tea, is there a bathrooom on the Moon?" lol
Not a very technically complicated image but I like it and wanted to share it. I really flip over the composition of a lot of the few layered pieces here. Only 3 total layers - one is a mask. What was WAY cool was that it rendered at like 12,000 pixels per second (400 something by 768) and was done in less than 30 seconds! After waiting up to 20 hours for some of my "mega-layer fiascos" to render, this was really neat. I've got to do some more of these "small" ones! lol
Thanks for stopping by - Konichi wa!
Rick
Ok - So I read the kanji "Sun", "Moon" left to right, western style, and they were on the page right to left - ROFL!! So I drew the wrong one. Thanks, Michele, for spotting my gaffe!
Edit posted 10/22/05 at 3:52PM EST
Comments (63)
Fantastic composition my friend! Bravo!
Wonderful oriental fractal Rick, and thanks for sharing! Bravo!
reminds me of August Moon restaurant with some awesome food here locally. that is your title.wonderful design and the Chinese characters adds to the mystique!
Simplicity at its finest! Very beautiful Japanese feel and look. Lovely colors too! Well done!
very beautiful and excellent composition V
Well done. Perfect/
This fits fully in the orietal tradition, even the color. It's very beatiful!
Beautiful creation in oriental style.....!!! V
You're the master in fractal art buddy!!!!! Absolutely fantastic!!!!!V
Cool image
Very creative and wonderful image. Good luck in the days to come!
It is so elegant! I love the lettering with it too! A wonderful color and representation of Japanese art Rick! WOW! :)
excellent..beautiful...:)v
Wonderful oriental vibe to this, I love the colouring!!!!
It's not always the "technically complicated" images that attract most :-) Nice ink-painting.
My god Rykk, it's incredible work. That's a wonderful japanese painting! love it.
The palmtrees look so graceful ,Rick - the oriental palm fronds and spiky trunks are perfect and look great with the soft background and writing !
I can see why you were made AOM your work is unique and stands out in a crowd so to speak. Very classy and I love viewing it V Cathy xoxoxo
A lovely oriental look, indeed! Very nicely done, Rick.
See? You CAN do it! This is a real beaut - elegant and eye-catching! I like the background bunches, too!
amazing oriental artwork! reminds me of a book with chinese wisdoms! ;o)
Really nice fractal sketch here Rick. Unquestionable Japanese vibe. Such fine fractal art you do.
nice Japanese inspired piece! :-)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!VOTE for your work.;O)
absolut brilliant work !!!!!!!!!! vote
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!this is really fantastic love it !!!!!!!!!!
Simply wonderful,love the oriental look and your coloringV :)
Wonderfully done! I like the Japanese touch a lot!
stunning stuff here rykkk!
Fnatastic piece.