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Glory of the Shinobi

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My take of Kurojaki from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin. He's one of my favorite characters in series and sooner or later I just had to make some fan art of this marvellous anime/manga.

You know, many of finnish canine artists grew up watching this anime (called "Hopeanuoli" in here) and probably had their artistic jumping-off place on that. That's why some of them might see surprising that I've never really watched Ginga and came familiar with story and the most of the characters as recently as in summer 2010 when Takahashi's original manga was translated in finnish. I love that manga to death, but sadly it seems that I don't have that nostalgic bond to the anime version as some others have.

Apparently I managed to mess up his face markings. I took reference from two different pictures and it ended up looking something in-between them. Too bad, those markings were so cool. The lineart itself is also a couple months old, I just recently ended up finishing it.

Faber-Castell colored pencils, black marker, background added with Gimp. Some of textures are by `hibbary, but I really can't recall where did I got that surge pattern in there. It's origami paper however.

Kurojaki, GNG © Yoshihiro Takahashi
artwork © ~GhoulShoe
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I love this character SO....GODDAMN...MUUCH <33333 *Oh why had I not commented on this sooner since I switched accounts??*

Along with his enemy Akame, of course. They both, in personality and physical and mental strength, just can't keep their fangs off each others' throats... Great charisma, these two have, overall. I wish Yoshi would make a story about them, expanding on their history as rivals, their ninja (dog) clans, and whether or not they actually didn't hate each other before they snapped back to their Ninja Code... Ehh, the art will be bad anyway (His current art style is... *shudders*), but as long the story is good, more the merrier... And if it doesn't deliver in the end, I'll try to write one myself if it leaves a bitter taste of disappointment in my mouth xD I kinda imagined Kurojaki's breed was that of a Shikoku or Kawakami ken; Turns out he's a completely made up breed of dog Yoshi created, which makes me kind of sad because I won't be able to exclaim "OMGZ it's Kurojaki and Akame!!" if I were to see a Kishu and Shikoku staring each other full in the face with a killer streak in their eyes. But whatever, he is still a Shikoku/Kawakami ken in my mind :3 *Gosh I need to draw more fanart of these guys Dx*

I've always enjoyed and admired your take on the characters of Ginga, and this one holds a great contrast of orange and brown, and the details are fantastic! I'd LOVE to see more of these guys from you (hopefully) not far off in the future ;)