I am the Carp, carving my niche
I am the Carp, carving my niche belongs to the following groups:
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I am the Carp, carving my niche
Jessica Tremp
very strong imagery
Ange
v cool.
Nicolas Rix
Thankyou!
Paul Louis Vil...
Very unique and dramatic work! Well done Nicolas!
SabreToothFairy
Beautiful! I love the ‘distressed’ look of the paper and crisp, detailed linework.
Top marks, dude! :)
meanderthal
awesome…. love this kind of japanese illustration….. great stuff!
Karl Salisbury
Nice one mate.
Damian
Fantastic image!
Siafu
Jeez, that’s a great style you git there man.
Hiroko
Wonderful illustration…love the colours…
paul romanowski
VERY GOOD, OH GOOD I MEAN…9.78609 IF IT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU..
Lloyd Harvey
You’ve captured a very old school Japanese print style and I love this piece very much.
bicozikan
Breath taking
Love the distressed treatment
ODE2EDO
I think its really good. I like how you adapted something like hokusai into a more edgy anime style, while still looking old school. The paper background is a nice effect, very dramatized.
GuitarAtomik
Really cool. Love that traditional style.
Firedrake
Fantastic! You have a lovely folio
Arlene Zapata
This has awesome energy + nice muted colorz!
Barbara Kaplowitz
This is great! Love the muted color scheme.
Alyson Pearson
love the colours here
hanARGH
that would make an awesome tatoo.
Lisa Kenny
Wow ~~ I was gonna say the exact same thing a hanARGH ~ that’s freaky
Sara Gunton
fantastic image! Your work is absolutely amazing
amberafternoon
Incredible image!
ronnie1
This one I liked the best any chance of a t-shirt version?
Tane
amazing !!
Sajja
Wow that’s awesome!
amberafternoon
Beautifully done!
Violetmoonwater
This is really beautiful
thickblackoutline
this is stunning!!! congrats on the homepage :)
mikoto
this is really good, very authentic.
julianmasters
i want this as a tattoo. yeah.
Mark Weaver
wonderfully done
Patricia L. Ba...
It’s just lovely. Every detail is perfect.
Robxavier
Very Clever work Nick
Adriana00
Lovely, really like the worn folded creases.
Karin Taylor
fantastic, fantastic, fantastic
micmac
Fantastic image,very original,congrats for the home page.
Tallulah
Brilliant image. Love the movement in the water and the colours are lovely. Great work.
j3concepts
good to see you on here mate. great work.
Jeff Newell
beautiful
AmandaWitt
Love the fine ‘de- tail’ and the sense of water standing still.
ErikKluftPhotography
seeing as I love japan and have various carps tattoed in irezumi style I have to say I love this so much!!!!!!
Jing3011
I like everything about this.
J. Scott
Very Cool! faved
Willem Dickson...
Nice dude, hard lines and washed out colour. Looks real good.
DesignbySolo
wonderful colors and style
KillerNapkins
this is an awesome piece of art .. what is it done with?
Nicolas Rix replied
Hey KillerNapkins,
Thanks for the comment.
This was done in pencil and ink on paper.
Scanned and colored in PS7.
The effects I used was a tiled style baroque wallpaper for the background.
I used a scanned creased paper, put it on the top layer and used overlay (I think – was a longtime ago).
The weathered effect is just a selected splatter – then I moved it around and cut away various parts.
The muted colors was done with color saturation and messing with the color balance settings.
kipishiux
Greate work! Thumbs up!
Mark Weaver
did i mention how much i like this?
Cindy Cooperider
I like the way the curve of the fish is echoed in the curve of the water splashing and the ink character. Nicely done!
genevievem
beautiful image, congratulations on being on the home page.
aethiryn
i wish i could draw. this makes me so envious!
Nikki Trexel
amazing work, emanating movement…the splashes match the fish…beautiful.
thickblackoutline
homepage again! you go!! :)
frozenfa
love the strong japanese look.. it truly deserves the homepage spot once again.. well done!! =D
Per Ove Sleen
cool
Jean M. Laffitau
Cooooooool!
Rhys McDonald
The fold lines are just amazing, make my attempts look horrible!
love the aging on this
Leanne Inwood
very very nice
jemimalovesbigted
wonderful piece.
Ine Spee
This is such a beautiful drawing, very well executed. Love how dynamic it is as well.
Beatriz Iglesias
Freakin’ awesome!
kaysha
stunnin
Peter Zentjens
Absolutely beautiful work.
colorblind
loving this piece real nice a keeper
i like work like this
how did you do this may i ask
Nicolas Rix replied
Hi colorblind :)
Step 1 -> Like all my work I start with a pencil and ink drawing, scan…open photoshop -> I color it in 3 to 4 tone “animation” shading. The background is a stock pattern,which was tiled.
Step 2 -> was adding the Zen symbol, which was an ink and brush done on paper…scanned in and positioned. The blood type splatters where done exactly the same way, just filled the ink splatters with a red color.
Step 3 -> I flattened the color and linework layers. Opened a random textured image, made a selection with the magic wand tool. Moved that selected over to my color+linework layer and did some random deleting of different areas to give it that weathered look.
The white marks is a random ink texture – inverted the layer, then set the layer to “Screen” mode, to allow only the white to show. Then I lowered the opacity of that layer slightly.
Steps 4 -> Got a damaged piece of paper that was scanned in and simply set the layer to ‘multiply’ mode. Then…flatten the whole image.
Open ‘Levels’ window and move some sliders around to improve the contrast. Then I opened the ‘Hue and Saturation’ window and lower the saturation slider by around 20%. Which further enhances the vintage coloration.
Lastly I use Color Balance to move the color range to the more green/blue side.
Any more questions, don’t hesitate to bubble mail me :)
Marco Recuero
gran trabajo
Davide Montell...
Stunning work of art!
Dumi
Hey Nicolas, man i remember seeing this piece last year, SUPER WORK!! Masterpiece. I’m also from cape town and i just joined RB.
Nicolas Rix replied
Hey Dumi,
Thanks man. More CT in the house :)
coledes
Love it. =)
ISMAIL ALAOUI ...
mmm; awsome piece of art,
i love japanese art work very unique, i have a japanese drawing in my gallery here at redbubble,
pleaase come to see,!!!!!
Tordo
Great work, nice colors.
Brad MacDuff
This is awesome in every way!
Dmunky
Powerful image man, good job.
zaffokioko
amazing!! :D
polaroids
natapee
cool
veneer
to good,
Shoaib .
super awesome artwork .. this is amazing
vampvamp
great work!
Tama Blough
Beautiful – congrats on the home page!
aglaia b
really beautiful. ;-)
Elizabeth Bravo
What beautiful work!! Congratulations on being FEATURED ON THE HOME PAGE!!
PPPhotoArt
very very cool work and so creative – congraulations on homepage
aliw
oh I love this – straight to favourites!!
Sanne Thijs
Congrats on the homepagefeature 28/09/2009
greenfrog153
Congratulations on making the homepage!
Carrie Glenn
Excellent work…wonderful texture and style. This is a awesome piece!!!
Sharon Mau
Aloha, I very much enjoy reading about your creative process. It is a very beautiful work of art, so multifaceted and deeply meaningful in so many subliminal ways. Congratulations on your homepage feature. I love the colours as well. It is lovely.
CapturedByKylie
Congratulations for being featured on the Oriental inspired Red Bubble Home Page.
28th September 2009.
petegrev
wow this is lovely! I’m planning to get a new tattoo similar to this! love it!
Melanie Dooley
Beautiful colours in this artwork. Very serene – love it!
AYYA
fantastic work!
BLYTHART
This is absolutely wonderful work.
taiche
2Herzen
This is a great image! Simple and well accomplished! :)
Carl Osbourn
this is just awesome
Nice work man :]
CACGuerra
...din´mica y bella