New silly Question for Samurai Buffs

[Lowtardog]

Ok I am now getting ready to start painting some samurai in everyday clothing, are there any resources on line for design/patterns of the cloth etc and combinations there of etc as have a few ideas fomr the odd magazine and osprey but always looking for more

[Henrix]

Well, go watch Ran and Kagemusha again. Awesome movies.


Oh, and quite a bit of nice clothes as well! Kurosawa liked colour. 

[Lowtardog]

Do you know I only have his B&W films and 13 assasins and Zatoichi are very drab being Edo period

[OSHIROmodels]

Google image for Japanese cloth patterns, that's a start  but initially look for the blue cloth as there is a lot of modern stuff mixed in.

Not very bright colours used at all really unless you were really high up or 'plying your trade' 

Any colours including greys (both warm and cold), light blues to dark blues (on the grey side of things), browns of varying shades again, not too bright. Reds could be used, but not too bright (think more terracotta).

As for the patterns themselves, some Japanese cloth can be quite beautiful and intricate but as these are gaming figures simple repeat patterns would probably do. For example a set of three dots in a triangle repeated over the cloth would look good. Also a short line, like a dash, again repeated. Small squares would work.

If you make the pattern colour a lighter shade of the cloth colour it will help pull it all together 

cheers

James

[fastolfrus]

How about James Clavell's "Shogun".
Bound to be lots of images on Google for that one.

[Lowtardog]

Cheers gents good ideas, I think I was on a wrong track with colours so thanks for the tips Jim

[dbsubashi]

I found the comic Usagi Yojimbo to be a great source for simple patterns on samurai era clothing. The writer/artist does lots of research, and his style matches our needs-simple, effective, and easy to do. The comic is mostly black and white, but this actually helps in replicating the patterns.

[OSHIROmodels]

That's a good idea 

Plenty of images on the net for that 

cheers

James