It's exactly the point of the technique to not lift the brush, and keep steady, otherwise there will be a break in the body pattern and it will not look natural, just like how you would not lift your pencil half-way through writing the number 1

Yeah yeah he stopped, like for a fraction of a second while he turned the paper. Isn't black paint part of the body?

A lot of it is in loading the paint onto the brush to get multiple colors, the other part is the start and stop dragging of the brush to make it look like scales. In the late 90's I came across a lady teaching one stroke painting, but it was mostly florals, leaves, petals, that kind of thing.

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ok i also love his drawing style, dragon painting is my passion. thanks because i was able to learn more

Please can you give me his account

Sorry... I don't recall. But it's way more beautiful than I paid... and I'm cheap! Lol

@xTheTorNando Last time I was there (about 3 years ago) the small ones like he's painting were about $25. I have two, one from 2009 and one from 2018.

elegant?

ok. i like the same style

I had exactly the same emotional journey. Given that this shop is in Nikko, my guess is that this person most likely began apprenticing when they were 12-14 years old and studied with a master and now has the ten thousand plus hours put in that allowed them to become an expert. I’ve found that rule does apply in reality. The thing they don’t tell you about those hours is that the first 8,500 hours are very difficult to get through. The doubts, the self-criticism, the cringe-worthy attempts at greatness. It’s no easy task and becoming free with my art and learning to allow it to be authentic tic is one of the very hardest things I have ever done.

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It's a technique that's been used by people for quite some time.

Its called the power of sight. In the west we see mainly through eyes filtered through an unconscious ego driven mind. my lord.

I used a magnifying glass and it really helped.

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Best way to create textutres is to ignore the details, just understand the fundamental properties of that texture. Your observers aren't going to notice a lack of microscopic precision.

How does this magical brush not run dry? O.o

I'm not an artist - But he seemed to put some sort of oil on the brush at the preparation stages. Maybe this did something to the brush to make it last longer?

Rebecca Stephens the brush for the scales he used is called a sumi brush

Hm, idk but it could be that this is calligraphie paper and the black colour (in the bowl) is classic calligraphie ink that he uses as a base. He put the sumi brush in the bowl for a while. 1st for the moist layer and 2nd it´s wiped off at the bowl.so you got that flattened brush and be able to put the colours on the top...i guess thats all

He's probably just using Chinese ink for the black, gouache for the colors and water. The rest is technique.