-2009- Hotsuma by Eric-3 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I must've started this at least a couple weeks ago, and only finally finished it today. I expected it to take long since I was only working on it during breaks at work (totalling anywhere from around 30 to 80 minutes a day, depending on if I was interrupted or finishing stuff up), but I didn't expect it would take THIS long.

This is Hotsuma from Shinobi on the PS2. I'm not exactly a fan of the game (I like it, but I don't love it), but I do really like this character design.

Since I've already done most of my own characters in pixel art recently, I figured I'd do some other character this time. I wanted to do Gene from God Hand next, but I'm too lazy to grab the reference pictures and stuff now. And after doing this one, I remembered how annoying and restrictive it is working from references and characters that aren't your own. Not sure I'll get to him.

The scarf was the last part I did on this, and I lazied out on the shading of it. I'm happy with the overall sprite though. Oh yeah, and I've been playing a little Samurai Shodown Anthology and just now noticed that Hotsuma reminds me of Hanzo.