Ok so here's the Samurai piece I have been referring to for anyone who doesn't know the piece.

I had worked this crooked little line of teaching myself to draw online starting in 2004. As I improved the stuff got more and more complex and in early 2006 I decided I wanted to do something more serious and maybe a little more illustrative for lack of a better word. The African piece was really the jumping off point for all that.

I followed it up with this. At the time this was probably one of the hardest things I had ever drawn or inked.

(Ironically my favorite part ended up being the two white silhouettes of guards down towards the bottom...)

anyway there it is...and now I don't feel stupid talking about it for people who have never seen it.

(below is a reply from the African thread but it really explains why I posted these two older drawings)

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""well again it's because of the line of thought I was working through at the time.

This piece(The African drawing) in many ways was an accident. I didn't know I was going to draw this 2 days before I did it. It just sort of happened.

Then the Samurai piece was to test myself with something harder in this exact style.

And the Blade Runner piece was basically a test I think to destroy myself and push all this as far as I thought it could go....



In all seriousness. I felt like I had some unfinished business and that's why I am doing that Blade Runner piece now.

as random as everything I seem to do is. I actually do have a reason I work the way I do. I know my goals and because I am self taught I basically teach myself something and then test the parameters of what I have learned.

The Blade Runner piece was my 'finals' for this style at the time... Unfortunately there was such a HUGE gap between all these pieces it's even harder to do now than it would have been back then.

:/

So it's like the past is coming right back around...and it's July 2006 all over and I am working on the end of this little pen and ink experiment.""
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It's like closing that chapter finally. I just didn't feel like I could let this one go....so once Blade Runner is done I can feel like I did that exercise, slayed that past demon, and I can move on to my new work and ideas knowing I didn't walk away with unfinished business.

Plus I think the Blade Runner piece could be pretty cool...as long as I don't f*ck up.