Edit: Smaller. The pencil lines were... MURDEROUS (?).

~FunkyBunnies, a friend and extremely talented 3D modeler, commissioned this a while back. I think he wanted a back view too, so I'll doodle that and send it to him later, mayhaps.

Design inspired by too much FFVI nostalgia, *Wen-M's art getting thrown in my face every two seconds, and a certain preppy European song of the same name. I have about three failed concepts sitting around my room somewhere that I did for this; they were all of humanoid characters. It didn't make much sense to give Chris something humanish to model, because he's already got humans in his 3D portfolio--and generic samurai things are practically everywhere nowadays.

(Yes, some things, like the blue markings, are not entirely consistent. That's okay. They're magic. Or something. Uh.)

Photoshop 7.0, Medion graphics tablet (poor thing's on its last legs), pencil sketch.
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