Black and white art IRL. Oni themed strangeness

 Continuing my Oni themed art is something I knocked together this week. 
I love horror movies and it is October after all. I have a small series of short form videos themed around ninja/shinobi and shinobi/Oni  I have been a fan of ninja movies for as long as I care to remember so  1980 - something or other.  I follow a ninja themed face book thing how to build a ninja flash bomb. 

They kinda do videos share pictures they find or are submitted as well as make a few tutorials ever now and then. The kid in me enjoys it a fair bit. They're one reason I started messing around with videos again. Mostly just using added effects and filters over pictures with just a drop of actual video footage I've filmed. In a small way I think sharing some of this with them has helped push them to get more creative.
But who can say. 

On to todays topic. 

Here we have to original. This was clipped from video filmed with a nightfox digital night vision in IR light. It was difficult to set up the pictures because it has to be manually focused. I used to post as my reference point. It's hit or miss really. 

Same picture but with a filter added from windows pictures.

Finally. Picture filtered in windows movie maker using the original picture.

Now it looks like white over black. 

This brings up around to the full video, all 45 seconds of it. 

I mentioned short form video above. this would go right to reels except I end up edition and something about the way I have done this has made that not work just now but I found the feature that should change them over to reels so we'll see. 

Oh, where was I . Yes. I remember now.

So there it is.
I'm cooking up a better one to try to film sooner or later. 
Wish me luck...



And if you'd like to see my other silly videos that I mentioned above here's the link.

https://www.youtube.com/@OniWanShinobi000/videos

A second Oni.

Any port in a storm?

Glad to continue drawing. I am just trying to keep it going. 
I may have mentioned my brother requested a specific picture from a scene in his second story. 
I hat a snag on that several months ago and more or less was unable to draw there after.
So these Oni have been working out really well and getting the juices going again. 

  



I see a lot of swords drawn where the blade and the sword handle are very poorly thought out. They don't line up correctly. Makes me crazy. 
The blade was done in three lines using a make shift straight edge. The center line tracks down to center the swords handle.  Granted this one is still a bit shit. 

These Oni, the first and second, were once men. Or maybe still are. 
Monstrous acts make a monster.

Sooner or later I will get to the real Oni.

I have an idea for that coming together right now.

Thanks for having a look.

 

It's finally OCTOBER!

 Here's an Oni doing Oni stuff.

We chattered about the L5R game and this started to come together. 

Now with color.

Edit

I got a very good scan of this picture.

I'd thought I was done but found I kept picking it up.
Now it's officially done. 

 

I've been unable to create recently. 
One of my art projects is arranged but I've not been able to get it moving. Hopefully this is about to change. I'm promised a picture ad am several months behind. 

More when there's more.

pistol

 shooting hobby reference picture. 

Targets first shots

Overall Update

So far it's gone very well. Minor issues are being worked out. 
The rear site wont stay in place and I am exploring options to remedy that.
I have added glow-on yellow paint to the sites, front and rear. It is highly visible but had not yet glowed in the dark.  The Glow-On has to be exposed to light for a few hours to charge it. 
I think I will look for a better option in the future. 
I've sent 240 rounds through it so far and just found some gun oil last week. 
Next I will be looking for a strobe light with a red dot next and a holster for that set up. 
Aside from the rear site issue the only other issues have been feeding from the magazines, one of them does not work properly and will not feed the first round as it should. I thought two of them were problems but only one of the 4 are having this issue. 

That's it so far.

Update - Stalled out

 As you would expect I've stalled out on the miniatures project. 
20 Metal Ratskin Renegades nearly done enough for pictures Last I picked them up I was attempting to dot the eyes but that became very difficult. I haven't gotten back to them as of his time. 

I am starting to think my time with miniatures is just about at it's end. 

Unrelated.
I'm hijacking this post to hold this picture for me.

I am working one something.

 I know I haven't posted in a bit. Just wanted to mention that I am actually painting some miniatures I've just net been in a rush to get them done. 
Might have some time to put into them on Saturday evening into the late hours during the DnD game. They are getting closer and closer to done. 

I've had no desire to do any drawings or flat paintings. I feel like I should be working on that kind of stuff but have had no motivation at all. I'm sure it will come back around at some point. Just have to wait it out. 

Grizzled old man in cold river - flat painting number 4.

 I'm not much for naming things as it turns out.  

My wife challenged me to turn the last black and white picture into a painting. ( See previous post. ) She thought it would look good in color. So here we are. 

The original scan is much larger. I reduced it to about a third or so of the size for this post. 


If this wasn't bad enough here's the wip pictures.

at this stage in the work I had very very low expectations. I sat here and said, I hate this picture. 

No reason not to press on.

The water is starting to look interesting.

I really like how the snow was coming together.

How about the other shore line. Getting somewhere now.

Flesh tones came out well, not bad just a bit more to do.

The fre on the torch seems to work Fire's never easy to paint.

I think it's too bright and will have to darken it down some who, kinda managed to do that if you can tell from the top picture. Darkind down the water and used a black wash Transparent smoke black airbrush paint.  Extra light from my lamp make this look brighter than it is.

Not too bad I guess.

This was done mostly with Apple Barrel and Folk Art brand craft paint, a little bit of ink added for flesh tones and just a little airbrush paint. Work time was about 5 days a few hours in the evenings and maybe a whole day at the end to wrap it up. Well sort of. There's still room for more when it comes to me.

Thanks for looking. 

Old poacher crossing a river at night in winter.

 

Best to cross at night.