Tuesday, October 27, 2009

さくらまやの大漁まつり! Maya Sakura's Tairyou Matsuri

This studio work is a drawing of the very young Enka singer Maya Sakura. Enka music is a popular form of Japanese style singing. Right now her most famous song is "Tairyou Matsuri" which is about the celebration after the fishermen have a really big catch. I did the drawings in pen and ink then added the colors digitally using Photoshop Essentials. I made the back ground with vector graphics using the program PaintShopPro and then imported it into Photoshop for the finished product.


Here are some pictures of the little girl....
If you want to see her in action, check out the following link to see her singing her famous song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NykVICyDx8c

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oiiiii ...
She's greatt ... What a voice !!!! ... Do you have the lyarics of this song Tairyou Matsuri ?!!! ... Thank you ... monteirinha_rj@hotmail.com
Tchau ... :D

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Unknown said...

A BIG THANK YOU!
I was so impressed by the child singing that I listened to the song over a hundred times! I wished I had the lyrics and got them too - although with some blanks. Still...THANK YOU! And I wish her all the BEST in future.

I have heard some Indian folk songs (like this one) called Janapada Geeta. Very similar and exciting.