Memoirs Of A Geisha

A simple water colour painting I did for the cover of my sketchbook for the Film Title Sequence project. 

Some research I did looking into the history behind a Geisha, and the culture. 

Also an artist from the era, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, who didn't have the greatest luck when it came to his career. I think that his work though, is very influential to the work that I created and even though he wasn't always successful, he carried on doing what he enjoyed. His career spanned two eras the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. I like  him as an artist because he was concerned for the traditional Japanese art, and stuck to the techniques and way he knew in effort to try and save it.

I put the drawing into Photoshop and got rid of any specs from the paper inside the geisha, and outside. I also cleaned up the characters and made sure there was nothing that could be seen on the paper from the original when printed out. I got rid of the original text because I felt like it kind of ruined it and looked cluttered. I resized the bottom characters and aligned them with the geisha. I liked how simple it looked, and decided to use it as a final piece in my exhibition.