Inugami the Samurai [ Onmyoji ] by shiftkeyk on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Inugami from the mobile game Onmyoji. Thanks to the contest, I've actually started playing Onmyoji, and I like it so far. There are a lot of interesting characters in the game, but what I was impressed me about Inugami was how he could wield a sword without thumbs. And that he carried around a shrine on his back (I did not know that was a thing).

So uhh... this is probably the first contest work I've done on DA. Aaaand... I did a derp lol. And by a derp, I mean I made a samurai dog fanart. In the spirit of traditional Japanese art. Yep. Well, I was going to do something cute (apparently that's my MO) but idea of Inugami drawn as a samurai like in traditional Japanese art got stuck in my head. As you can see, this is the result. It's definitely not impressive, but it amuses me, so that's good enough for me. xD Apologies for inaccuracies, I'm no art expert.

Done completely digitally. I had a really hard time getting the pose right in sketches (I'm not very practiced in making complex poses, as my previous works can attest to), so I ended up doing a basic trace of artwork for a samurai as a base sketch. I felt bad for that, so I tried to modify it to make it as different as possible, but the pose and some minor details still give it away. ;^^ Well, at least it helped me get that samurai look. The background was made to look aged, like many of my references were. I definitely did not want to attempt kanji, so I just styled my usual signature to look similar to reference signatures. There was also no shading involved... because I was so sleepy while doing this I forgot. ;-;

Edit: I resized it to be larger because I missed the part where there was a size limit. Hopefully it'll be good now? Apologies if it looks slightly different due to the resizing.