Sketching the traditional Chinese woman is actually very difficult. I thought, I could end this art within snap shot of time. But I was utterly wrong. Perhaps, its taking nearly 6 days’ time for me to finish this beautiful piece of art work. I had to start it from scratch, and then I had to observe every part of image carefully. It has become difficult task for me because, its my first time ever that I have attempted to sketch Chinese traditional woman. As I am Indian, I am really weak at figuring the point of Chinese colour sense.

When I started sketching I have first observed the anatomy of this woman who is laying down herself relaxed on boat. Her anatomy is precisely different from any other nation’s women. If I could take an example of European women they look little chubby, and their body is not much curvaceous, they look too skinny and their anatomy is really easy to observe and implement that onto paper. But, Chinese woman’s anatomy is typical in terms of her deep curvaceous features, her dressing style, height etc., So it is really important to check the anatomy first. And trust me, it took me one whole day to finish this part. Then I went to sketch it. And the rough figure was finished. I thought, I will feel much easier to finish it soon.

But the difficult time arrives, when it comes to colouring. You see, when you paint any image you must know the minimum sense of colour theory. It is because; every country has different perspective towards colours. Chinese really feel fascinate about red and more contrasting colours. In fact, I have also observed in many Chinese movies, that every actor will wear bright and contrasting costumes. Lighting is eye gazing and locations look beautiful as ever. It just attracts the viewer eyes. But in other countries such as America, India or England, they never make movies with bright contrasting colours or lighting. And they always prefer to choose a darker colour which has to be dim. So, keeping this in my mind I was observing the Chinese painting colour sense. Even in their art forms, many great artists have painted using attractive colours. I think this is the reason why I believe, China is an attractive country that anyone should actually visit here to enhance the feel of nature.  Whatever we take either landscape art, or people art, animals, nature, flowers everything related to China is fantastic and masterpiece.

Similarly I have faced this incredible experience when I was painting traditional Chinese woman. I was really conscious about choosing the right colour which can fit into the place. My hands were trembling when I was painting the costume of woman. Because the costume was seem to be like silk and other layers were free and transparent. So I had to keep my eye focussed on, to give the great output. Today, I have finally finished colouring the boat and water. There was bluish green colour reflecting on water, and the boat was appearing as pretty old and traditional. Well anyways, I have finally finished the work but not completely it is still incomplete. Apparently, I need some more time to observe the background part now. Because as you will see, the background behind this woman is still white in colour. I have to paint background using right colour theory in order to match with the perspective of woman, boat and water. So, I am excited to see the final output now…

This will be my first sketch ever of Chinese traditional woman. I will be sharing with you all now. So I hope you can judge me too…

The first rough work 

Final coloured output for costume part 

Background has to be painted still