This video tutorial shows ①Preparation for drawing (making sumi ink and load sumi in the brush(fude), ②Straght Stroke(Choku-Hitsu), ③SIde Stroke(Soku-Hitsu), ④Thin Line Drawing(Sen-Byo), ⑤Small Leaves Drawing What you need : Brush(fude), suzuri(ink stone), sumi bar and rice paper(wa shi) , small white plate, clothes ①Preparation for Drawing 1. Make sumi ink Put water in the hole part of suzuri. Have a sumi bar and dip it into the water. Grind sumi bar on the no water part of suzuri. Hold sumi bar with 45 degree toward the surface of suzuri. Grind sumi bar with very little power and grind it like drawing circle. Imagine that tiny particle coming out of the ink bar. The sense of sumi ink rises meanwhile. Done when the water turns out the black ink. 2. Put sumi into Fude Put fude into the water. Put fude onto the clothe in order to wipe water out. Don't move fude, just put it on softly. Shape the tip of the hair of fude(fude-saki) sharpened. Put sumi ink into fude in the suzuri. Squeeze sumi ink out of fude in the small white plate. Draw fude on the edge of the small plate, to squeeze sumi out. 3. Calibrate the sumi ink black color Put the water in fude. Squeeze water out onto the sumi in the plate and mix it. Squeeze out the whole mixed sumi-water, which turns out the light black. Then, ladle that light black sumi into fude. Dip the fude-saki into the sumi ink in suzuri. Shape fude on the clothe. You all set for drawing. ②Straight Stroke for line drawing Line drawing from left to right. Fude leans 30 degree to the right. Fude leads the fude hair. The direction of fude points which the line goes. Take half second breath when you put fude on the paper. Then move fude. When you finish drawing the line, take half second breath before you get fude up of the paper. The first line you draw is blacker than the second one. The last sumi ink that you put into fude will put on the paper first. In order to get gradation on drawing, you need the different level of black sumi ink into fude Ink loading preparation is the most important technique in sumi-e. In this rainbow stage, what you have to get is "one brush five gradation" technique. To draw a beautiful rainbow, making an appropriate brush is inevitable. Catch the gradation feeling with the rainbow. ③Side stroke (Soku-hitsu) Use whole side of fude hair. Lean down fude. Hold fude 90 degree cross the line direction ④Thin Line Drawing (Sen-Byo) Bend fude hair on the clothe. Put sumi on the behind only. Hold fude 90 degree cross the line direction ⑤Small Leaves Drawing Put fude on suzuri and get sumi only one side of fude hair Put fude-saki, then push fude and swipe down. (Three action at the same time) Flex the wrist for fude swipe. This technique apply to the cherry blossom drawing. Enjoy :) 日本語：http://sumi-e.co/draw/basic.htm