Samura Cont'd

 All these sketches are from the Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 4. His art actually gets better as the series continues, by omnibus 7 my jaw hits the ground every couple of pages. 

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 60)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 70)

Daily Pages

Continuing with my daily pages, I'm tight on time so doing these pretty rushed. But still better to do them, than to skip it. 

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 40)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 50)

Artist studies + Progress

 Continuing to sketch from my chosen masters, I should put some more time into the but better to fill a page than to wait until there's more time to do it properly.

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 20)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 30)

I made a list of the challenges I've set myself and my progress. The goal is to complete 50 pages of a specific subject (artist studies, hands, feet, etc..). So currently I am tracking them on an excel sheet.

I'm on the last 10 pages for a few of these: Heads, hands and the Artist Study : John Buscema. I'll try and complete the hands and heads this year still..somehow just lost track of things :P

Originally I was going to continue once I completed a challenge (like the Mannikin), but I think it's better to create a new challenge. Potentially a Mannikin LVL2, and set some new parameters to keep things interesting.

Studies

 I've let my drawing practice slip, time to bring it the sketch book more often. Doing more artist studies (bad ones..to uphold tradition! :P)

(TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 50)

(TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 60)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 10)

I've always loved Samura's gestural work on Blade of the Immortal, although how I discovered him was by random volumes of Blade of the Immortal on sale on a second hand shop. So only years later I tried reading from the start, and I didn't really like his artwork/ storytelling in the first volumes. But it's very interesting to trace his development as an artist. He's also a huge inspiration from guys like Otomo (Akira).