How to draw face by Shunrou（HOKUSAI） and Sharaku

  


Shunrou (Katsushika Hokusai) "Ichikawa Danjuro VI" c.1792/93 The Art Institute of Chicago

 Sharaku "Fuwa Accompaniment by Ichikawa Danjuro VI" The Art Institute of Chicago

Sharaku first started to draw Ookubi-e.

So Shunro's okubi-e from the later period can easily show that the same technique was used.

Though I have not found his Okubi-e, last time I found a full-length image of Shunro and Sharaku's Danjuro.

I enlarged the head part of the two and compared them.








All lines can be reproduced with arcs of limited number of circles.

Three or more circles intersect on a point forming mesh pattern.

The hair streaks are made of parts of the bundled circles.


I didn't use the smallest circle for the details because the resolution is not good, but in the Ookubi-e,

A more detailed structural analysis is possible.

 

Sharaku "The Edobei of Oniji Otani III"




The circles are divided into three groups: large, medium and small.

The largest circle, "pink," forms a pattern of vertical stripes.

The second largest circle, "blue purple'', is the most used for the basic structure.

The arcs of the sixth small circle "red" ' one of which is the part of family crest, are scattered here and there and draw the eye very effectively. It is effectively distributed in two parts of the ear, the right eyebrow, the upper part of the nose, the chin, and the hairline.

Just by looking at these three models, you can see that all the common myths about Sharaku are nonsense.

Sharaku used to change his pseudonym very often.

If you look at Shunrou's works in the later period, Sharaku's style is Technically the same as Sharaku's.

It is immediately clear that Sharaku is nothing but the progress of the late Shunrou's style.

Some of the upper body paintings became very comical and caught the eye of amateurs, Sharaku became a hot topic at the illustrative level.

At the formal level, we see continuous change from Shunrou to Sharaku.


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