Photoshop Tenugui Design.

[Omnis]

Just decided I'd design some tenugui layouts to alleviate my boredom.

This is the first one I have done so far:

http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/1650/tenugui11mo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Comments? :cool2:

[abryson]

Hey that looks cool! Good Job!

Cheers,
Drew

[verissimus]

Nice!

Can you explain the significance of the fish?

[Omnis]

I dunno; I like koi. Like I said, it's just something to do when I'm bored. There's no real purpose... It's more like complex doodling. I can't say that they would make good tenugui, either. I just make them within the tenugui's dimensions.

[David]

=o Add some kanji, and your set. Aren't there companies that do Tenugui designs for people?

[Omnis]

Yeah, but you have to buy a set of, like, 300. Not that I would use that one or anything...

[nysamurai]

Still, Marc, that's pretty darn good work. I like David's idea of adding some kanji. It would be WAY non-traditional. But new traditions have to start somewhere, sometime.

[yohed55]

Hey I like it. What are the inch or pixel dimensions for a Tenugui?

Thanks

[Omnis]

I looked up 30x90 cm on wikipedia. Scaled down to 640 pixels, it becomes 213x640.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I'm gonna do more, of course. Post up some rad ideas if you have any.

[Martin S.]

I believe the Koi signifies perseverance, as it apparently swims upstream a lot. A little spoil sport comment: it would be really expensive to have that
design printed in any sort of usable ( washable) quality. Carry on the good
work.

best regards

Martin

[Omnis]

I believe the Koi signifies perseverance, as it apparently swims upstream a lot. A little spoil sport comment: it would be really expensive to have that
design printed in any sort of usable ( washable) quality. Carry on the good
work.

best regards

Martin

Hahahaha. Tell me about it.

[Kitsune]

Beautiful, you did that all by yourself, cool!!! Love the japanese garden thing it has the drawing.

[kensenbatusaii]

add some

nice looking

bamboo

[Omnis]

I'm finally back home from vacation. Back to photoshop, anyway.

Here's another:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7822/tenugui2vv5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I hope to god the japanese makes sense. It's supposed to be something like, "Like Flowing Water." or "Flow Like Water." If somebody wants to correct anything, then please do, and I'll change it up.

Thanks. :)

[Omnis]

Anybody?

My next one is going to be tree-themed. Anyone care to provide Kanji for that or something?

[Omnis]

"Wood" is done:

The left one is normal, and the right has a slight texturization filter thrown on top.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9343/tenugui3lo6.jpg (http://imageshack.us) http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6676/tenugui3texturizedob8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


I'd really appreciate it if you leave me some feedback after viewing.

[Omnis]

Here's "Tiger" made by special request from Smurf209. I hope you enjoy it!

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7347/tenugui4jk9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Krad]

Here's "Tiger" made by special request from Smurf209. I hope you enjoy it!

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7347/tenugui4jk9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
wow, beautiful

[Smurf209]

Here's "Tiger" made by special request from Smurf209. I hope you enjoy it!

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7347/tenugui4jk9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Omnis = AMAZING!

I really love this! It really captures my vision of martial arts!

Thanks soooo much! :D :D :D :D

[Omnis]

Heh. Thanks.

I figure wood counts as earth, and I've done water already. I'm going to finish the elements with fire, wind, and no-thing. (five-rings series, per se.)

[yahiko_venom]

make one with a giant cheese curl in the middle, and smaller cheases to the side. :wink:

for nothing, i think you should just use a picture of a kendo-ka, with some random swirls around.

keep up the good work

[crabbi]

Here's "Tiger" made by special request from Smurf209. I hope you enjoy it!

Hi Omnis... I think your designs are great. Well done...

Thinking about the Kendo Tenegui and its uses there are a number:

1. Purely decorative, a keepsake that can be displayed or hung fully open, either vertically or horizontally for all to see... Yours would certainly serve that purpose without a doubt.

2. As a gift to visiting Sensei or Sensei that you visit... these may never be worn or displayed but might remain folded. In this case it is good to have a part of the design that would be meaningful and visible from a folded position... could be Kanji or could be a part of the design.

3. Worn beneath the Men... in which case thought has to be given to that part of the tenegui that will be visible at the back of the head...

Excellent designs....

Cheers

[Kenzan]

Here is one my daughter made with our family Mon.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/kenzan_kendoka/081506008.jpg

It's not photoshop, but rather from a hand made stencil and a bleach pen.

[Omnis]

Here is one my daughter made with our family Mon.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/kenzan_kendoka/081506008.jpg

It's not photoshop, but rather from a hand made stencil and a bleach pen.

That's actually really cool. I have a few friends who are fantastic stencil-artists.

[Nukitsuke]

Omnis, very nice designs!

Just curious, do you do any designs suited for iaido - say a samurai or something along that line?

[David]

I would love to have that Tiger one. It's just awesome how the tiger looks like it's attacking just as the kenshi strikes men.

[Omnis]

Omnis, very nice designs!

Just curious, do you do any designs suited for iaido - say a samurai or something along that line?

Yeah, sure, I'll work on something once I get some free time. School is a bitch.

[Andoru]

Very nice designs Omnis!

[yahiko_venom]

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7347/tenugui4jk9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

hail too all flaming japanese symbols :)

[neko]

Here is one my daughter made with our family Mon.

please excuse my ignorance, but isn't that the kamon of hideyoshi toyotomi?
and isn't it also used as the symbol for the office of prime minister?

how is it your family mon? can you trace your lineage to hideyoshi? just curious. i am not very familar with japanese kamon.

BTW, it is a pretty swell tenugui that she made. stencil seems the way to go. we went to tenugui shop in kyoto and up stairs they had a museum of sorts with different "kata" or stencils on display.

[rottunpunk]

i really like all those designs.
how do you get that good on photoshop?
wish i was that good :rolleyes:
:p

[Kenzan]

please excuse my ignorance, but isn't that the kamon of hideyoshi toyotomi?


You are excused. :) My family Kamon is different.

Toyotomi Kamon:
http://www.yoshinoantiques.com/images/Kiri-mon.jpg

Kenzan no Kazoku Kamon:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/kenzan_kendoka/081506008.jpg

Both Kamon are of a "Kiri", or Paulownia tree, which is used for making luxery cabinets. The Toyotomi family, and many others, also used/use this symbol, in it's many iterations. My family Kamon has three branches off of the main leaf, and two for the side shoots, while the Toyotomi Kamon uses three for the main and one for each shoot. It's not all that uncommon to see iterations of Kamon spread throughout Japan. Bu they are different.

It is also important to remember, that there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese family names, but not hundreds of thousands of Kamon.
How can this be that each family has a totally unique Kamon? Simple. They do not.
During and before Japan's Sengoku Jidai time, many families rose from the peasantry, intermarried, were destroyed, adpoted, created, augmented, and otherwise mingled. Therefore it is is also not uncommon to see two families with totally different backgrounds have the same Kamon in modern days.
Who knows where there got it? Was a distant relative in the past assosciated somehow with a well know daimyo? Or perhaps a servant? or even a ronin wanna-be? One never knows.

I imagine the same can be said with European crests?
I thank you for your kind compliments on my daughter's work! :)
:)

[neko]

wow. cool! thanks for the explanation. :)

[Alison2805]

All the tanugui designs are brilliant guys!!

Chris-sensei has one that is covered with little asparagus prints. I love it, I want one.

[Omnis]

Just made this. Don't know if it's worth its own thread, though. :D

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2948/segaeigast5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Nukitsuke]

Just curious if you have any new designs for us to peruse?

[Gessho]

Just curious if you have any new designs for us to peruse?

http://www.shiboridragon.com/AlexanderHenry/Sushi-Cream.jpg

[Andrew S]

I'm finally back home from vacation. Back to photoshop, anyway.

Here's another:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7822/tenugui2vv5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I hope to god the japanese makes sense. It's supposed to be something like, "Like Flowing Water." or "Flow Like Water." If somebody wants to correct anything, then please do, and I'll change it up.

Thanks. :)
You'd have to change your character order. 流水のように Even then, I'm not sure if it can exist without a clause.
Nice artwork, though.
Oh, yes, the carp is a symbol of strenghth, as it was believed to be the only fish that could swim upstream and survive.

[Sasayaki]

wow, beautiful

This is amazing! Can you actually get images like this posted on a tenegui? And do like a single order? Cause that would be so cool if you could.

[rainmaker]

I personally like simple white and black. I guess I am not a colorful person....

[Sasayaki]

I love traditional, but I would love to find something simple and yet original. You know? Cause everyone buys the same things from e-bogu etc. And you see a lot of the same. So it would be neat to get one thats different.

[Omnis]

I'll work on some stuff after mid-terms tomorrow. Any ideas?

Oh, and if you're good at drawing or photoshop or whatever then please give one a try too.

[Sasayaki]

I'll work on some stuff after mid-terms tomorrow. Any ideas?

Oh, and if you're good at drawing or photoshop or whatever then please give one a try too.

I work in photoshop as a job, chances are I either wont have spare time to do so, or I will be too tired from the computer. haha.

But I love your designs.

Idea's...um...lol Idk, I just love lions and tigers, so my idea's would be pretty biased. ;)

[dwez]

how do you get that good on photoshop?


1000 copy/pastes for 1000 days.

[Sasayaki]

1000 copy/pastes for 1000 days.

Thats pushing it, do you know how high of a resolution you would have to amp that sucker on??

:)

It's more logical if you say 1000 clone stamps for 1000 days. Every photoshop user knows thats logical.

:laugh:

[Nukitsuke]

Still waiting for some iaido related ones......
:)

[shidokurisu]

Nice stuff Marc, I think you have a new little sidejob in the future eh? Find a nice print shop. MARC P's TENEGUIS!!

Really though, dope work, they look good.

[Omnis]

Here's the new one, drawn by hand:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1733/bogutenuguijj0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)



Still waiting for some iaido related ones......
:)

Okay, I'll work on something.

[Fonsz]

Still waiting for some iaido related ones......
:)
Iaidoka don't need tenegui. For chrissakes they don't break out in a sweat so what's the use?:confused::confused::confused::ko::ko:

[Omnis]

Iaidoka don't need tenegui. For chrissakes they don't break out in a sweat so what's the use?:confused::confused::confused::ko::ko:

Maybe to be an Iaido-knowing showoff during kendo practice. :p

[atgm]

If you were to stencil a tenegui, what would you use?

[Sasayaki]

Maybe to be an Iaido-knowing showoff during kendo practice. :p

I so wish I could learn from you! Great stuff!

[Omnis]

Still waiting for some iaido related ones......
:)

Okay, here you go:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8523/iaidotenuguiqd9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

It reads like a manga. :laugh:

[corwyn]

Omnis, these are some brilliant designs. I wish I could find tenugui for sale that look this good :)

Would you be able to do one in a dragon and tiger design (the astrology signs of my girlfriend and I)? Doesn't need an MA theme, as she doesn't do any, but if you want to add some, I do iaido, not kendo (yet). I probably wouldn't be able to get it printed on a tenugui (as a one-off), but I'd love to print it out and have it framed to hang up.

Thanks!


Iaidoka don't need tenegui. For chrissakes they don't break out in a sweat so what's the use?:confused::confused::confused::ko::ko:

Haha...yeah right. You should have seen the US Nationals this past June. It was in the 90's outside (32+ C), IIRC, and really humid, and we were in a gymnasium with no air conditioning. After the second day's seminar, I picked up my towel to hang it up after my shower, and realized that my juban was more wet than my towel was.

At least I didn't have to worry about my hakama himo coming loose, letting the hakama fall at all. The hakama was fairly well soaked, too, so it would just stick to my legs. Since then, I've purchased a couple of extra gi and hakama, so I don't end up having to ever put on a wet uniform again the next time I'm at a seminar in warm months.

[Fonsz]

Haha...yeah right. You should have seen the US Nationals this past June. It was in the 90's outside (32+ C), IIRC, and really humid, and we were in a gymnasium with no air conditioning. After the second day's seminar, I picked up my towel to hang it up after my shower, and realized that my juban was more wet than my towel was.


In those temperatures chess players and domino players would be profusely sweating. But then there's more seme in chess and domino than in Iaido.:eek::confused2:ko:






This was said in jest before all the Iaidoka want to try their new found sword skills on me

[corwyn]

In those temperatures chess players and domino players would be profusely sweating. But then there's more seme in chess and domino than in Iaido.:eek::confused2:ko:

Tameshigiri time!

[Sasayaki]

Okay, here you go:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8523/iaidotenuguiqd9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

It reads like a manga. :laugh:

I am definately saving this design, could you try a kendo girl design, with a tiger? Would love to see if I could find a place to print some of these on fabric.

[Sasayaki]

Heres my attempt at one

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/surfergrlchick/IAIDODesign1copy.jpg

:) It's not that great lol but I tried

[Omnis]

Heres my attempt at one

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/surfergrlchick/IAIDODesign1copy.jpg

:) It's not that great lol but I tried

That's not an Iaido kata, is it?

[shidokurisu]

Isn't that the Kendo Kata I ?

[Sasayaki]

Indeed it is Kendo kata 1, althought it was the only picture I had ;)

[Omnis]

Indeed it is Kendo kata 1, althought it was the only picture I had ;)

So it should say Kata 1. Lol.

[Sasayaki]

So it should say Kata 1. Lol.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/surfergrlchick/KendoKatacopy.jpg

:p

[Fonsz]

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/surfergrlchick/KendoKatacopy.jpg

:p
Better make that Ipponme. Or in Kanji if you can accomplish that feat.

[Sasayaki]

Better make that Ipponme. Or in Kanji if you can accomplish that feat.

:( I wish I could write in kanji

</3

[corwyn]

Isn't it this? 一本目

[Fonsz]

Isn't it this? 一本目
You are clearly a man of many talents. Pity that you abuse them to make an Iaito whistle...........:ko::ko:




:eek::eek::eek:
*Throws ninja smoke bomb on the floor, ducks for cover and leaves building through the window* Poof!!

[Sparv]

*Throws ninja smoke bomb on the floor, ducks for cover and leaves building through the window* Poof!!

it was the 25th floor

[corwyn]

*Throws ninja smoke bomb on the floor, ducks for cover and leaves building through the window* Poof!!

That wasn't a smoke bomb, you bastard! What the f* did you eat for lunch?? :eek:

[Fonsz]

it was the 25th floor
Drat! Geronimoooooooo!!!!

That wasn't a smoke bomb, you bastard! What the f* did you eat for lunch?? :eek:
At least I can whistle with parts of my anatomy. .........:pirate::ko::devious::evolved: