Daily Creativity: SokumenSokumen is another stance from Aikido, it’s almost a curtsy type stance that you slide into before sweeping your uke down. It’s a side entering throw. I like this style of sketching out the position and then using the thick brush stroke to convey movement.
Daily Creativity: KamaeKamae is the stance that all of aikido is based on. In this drawing I plotted out the angles to create the proper stance, and then drew in the lines hoping to evoke the movement that was about to happen. Tek said he’d like to see other stances and some techniques in this style. I was inspired by the day’s teaching at the kenshu. Ink on paper.
Daily Creativity: Usagi (Ous/Osu/Oss-agi!)As many know, I practice Yoshinkan Aikido, a common word used is Ous (aka Osu aka Oss) which is like Q’apla in Klingon, it can be used for anything but no. It’s a shortening for a whole expression, but is used often to mean more than the original meaning. It’s slang that was picked up by dojos, and many arts you’ll hear it. It sounds a lot like the beginning of the word for Rabbit, Usagi. So I got it in my head to draw a rabbit aikidoka. So here is my Rabbit in a hakama. Markers on Paper.
Elephant’s practicing Judo? Why not? Tonight’s art was requested by Tek aka UpsideDownandFlying on tumblr. Tek loved the race picture I did and the Ele-family picture so he wanted to see them practicing Judo. We both love watching the heavyweight judo, it really is the most entertaining of the IJF highlight videos. Of course one of the reason I might like the heavyweight matches is because that matches my body type and my type of martial arts. I practice yoshinkan aikido but both aikido and judo have the same root. I really enjoyed drawing this and how it came out, so there may be more of a series of theses in the future.
Colored pencils on paper
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Daily Creativity: MaaiMaai is the distance you set up in aikido before performing techniques. It’s very important to start at maai because at that distance neither party can do anything to the other party without moving closer, but it’s close enough that you don’t have to cross much distance to start.
I think this concept is interesting and it’s something that can be carried into life. When you start anything you want to start it with proper perspective and distance. You want to be prepared but not over prepared, you want to consciously start something before you are already in it. With the proper distance almost any challenge can be handled.
I painted this in Art Rage using the oil painting settings. I was originally going for my blob people look but there are just too many angles in aikido so they took on their own form.