Amidamaru and Yoh from Shaman King
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Shaman King is sort of an under-rated series nowadays. I remember really enjoying it early on. Though the dire 4Kids English version didn't do it any favors. Anyway, here's a painting of the main characters, Yoh and his samurai spirit Amidamaru.
I mostly used the Shonen Jump manga as reference. I was originally going to colour Amidamaru's spirit form in yellow as seen in the few coloured images I saw in the manga, but the anime colours him blue instead so I went with that. I think the reflected blue glow adds a lot. The anime also uses a pink hue for the sky at night, and I thought that was pretty unique so I used colours like that for the background.
© Hiroyuki Takei Back to Illustration. |
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