Okami has a very beautiful and unique aesthetic inspired from sumi-e which is ink painting. An example of a great sumi-e artist would be Xia Gui whose artwork you can see above. He was a Chinese landscape painter in which not many people knew much about, but his works are considered to be some of the finest in China.
Coming back to Okami, the aesthetic for he game, is a combination of this ink painted/calligraphic look and cell shading. The texturing is very soft and full f colour with thick streaky black outlines and I think it works really well with the story and characters.
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