Video: Painting dragon with just one stroke

Artists in Japan have created a new art in which they can paint beautiful dragon paintings with just an ink from feather writing.

The image of the dragon is always a sacred and noble image in the culture of many Asian countries. The image of dragons often appears in many works of architectural art, carving, painting or film . In which there is art called 'Hitofude Ryuu'.

This art is originated from Japan, originating from the workshop of Kusyuuya Studio in Nikko city (Japan). Accordingly the artists of this studio can paint beautiful dragon paintings, but only use a single brush stroke.

The art of 'Hitofude Ryuu' means ' dragon with a stroke' , and has been transmitted through 4 different generations to draw Kusyuuya.

If you only observe the artist's drawings, many people will think that this is a not too difficult job, but in fact to get a perfect dragon drawing from just one stroke, the artists have to underwent a process of practicing how to use the brush.

In fact, a drawing is only used to paint the body of the dragon, while the first part is still carefully used by artists to use small strokes. After finishing the first part, the feathered dot artists have big heads on arbitrary color ink and slide a line onto drawing paper to create a perfect dragon bending.

At first glance it seems that artists only draw feathers in one line, but when you look closely you can see that the hands of these artists are jerky when pulling the drawing, this will create vignettes. Extremely lively on the body of the dragon.

The artists said that the most difficult thing when drawing dragons with a stroke is to calculate the amount of ink embedded in the brush so as to be able to draw a dragon long enough and lively before the ink runs out.

The paintings painted by Hitofude Ryuu art are always done in front of customers. Those who order dragon paintings at the studio Kusyuuya can choose the color and style of the dragon so that artists can draw as they wish. Although there are similar drawings, however, each dragon painting is unique because the posture of the dragons on the paintings is different and unique.