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Malloriel — Shippo the Demonic Monk

Published: 2008-06-14 05:49:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 4034; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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Description I've been thinking for a while now that I'd like to work on an Inuyasha comic thing, but haven't been able to figure out who or what or why.

I made an OC (Modern era clothes found here ) and the idea of a direction to take the story, but I've really started turning down a different path for ideas now.

Here we have Shippo all, or mostly, grown up. Certainly an adult and quite worldly by now. Even a bit dark. I'm thinking someone very important was killed at some point, which left him in a very bad personal place.

As he got older, still travelling with Inuyasha and the gang, Miroku taught him what he knew of being a monk, and so Shippo himself performs exorcisms and protection spells using sutras and the like.

His sword is some very powerful thing, of course. Whose isn't? And the wrapping around his chest and what you can see of his upper arm is an ittan-momen, a fabric like creature that flies through the air and smothers people in their sleep. Not overly friendly in that sense, but I've got some non-traditional ideas for its use here.

I've considered the possibility that his robe there is actually either entirely or made from the robe of Sojobo, the king of the tengu, which is supposed to be enchanted. The only problem I've run into is a total lack of elaboration as to what, exactly, makes the robes so darn enchanted, so I guess it gives me creative licence to do as I please. This obviously includes colour and nature, and what you can't actually tell (because my scanner hates anything related to red) is that there's actually some pink-violet in his robes as well. Quite a lot, in fact, and some green, but my scanner ate it. I haven't figured out WHY the robe has these colours, but it does and it's a brilliant reason too.

So there you have it. Basically all that I've come up with where Shippo is concerned. He's kind of a badass now. ^_^

The characters of Inuyasha (c) all that jazz

Art (c) me

Materials
Prismacolor Pencils
Photoshop PS (touch ups and background)
Micron pens (005 and 03)
Coffee (for me, not the picture)
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Comments: 4

SpellboundFox [2010-09-07 22:19:05 +0000 UTC]

So cool!

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Littlebirdlovely [2010-09-02 15:07:44 +0000 UTC]

wiin :0
your pretty boss, mate.

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DudQuitter [2008-08-05 07:46:01 +0000 UTC]

Good stuff! Bit more work on facial definition and you'll be sorted. Keep it coming.

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Malloriel In reply to DudQuitter [2008-08-05 23:51:32 +0000 UTC]

Why thank you. I personally feel he was one of my less defined pieces, in that I really wasn't sure what direction I was going to take him officially.

There are a ton of non-scanned/non-posted line arts I'm much happier with that I'll get around to doing something about soon, I hope.

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