Finally! A samurai with boobies ^_^ . The shading on the armour is just perfect . I like the dark mysterious feel about it brought on by her stance , It's the really small details in this which I love like the leaf in her hair markings on the armour. I know you hate backgrounds and all but this one rocks even if it is pretty simple . It adds a mood to the picture.

Amazing work man

P.S Looks more ninja than Samurai

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Looks like it's your turn to walk the Kal

Thanks Kal, yeah she does look pretty ninja

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Orions Spartans For The Win!

I Hate you so much...

Just Kidding, it looks great and the background (Damn you!!) looks good.
(AAAHHHHH!!!!) The Samurai also looks good too, although I have to agree with Sparda that she looks a little ninja-esquse.

Overall (You...you... AAHHHH!!) it's good.

And if you wondering what that is then I can just tell you it's my inner voice and it's frustration.

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"Orion Spartans to the Fray!"

Man you are screwed inside...

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Orions Spartans For The Win!

Wow, slick work, I love it. Did you make it in Illustrator or Photoshop or something else? Good work on the hands and armour especially. Did you use a reference image or was it all just from scratch?

Since you set it to advanced critique, I suggest adding a black widescreen movie-style border, and gve the sun a bit more glow (big fuzzy round brush in Photoshop on a layer above all the other layers, make the horizon and sky in the 150 - 200 px around the sun look glowy in white or light yellow) Another way I like making a sky more dynamic is by using white circles set at a low opacity level, so they look like halos round the sun (make a circle for the sun, keep it vector, duplicate the layer, rescale it so it's like 500% the original size, set it to 5% opacity or so. Duplicate that layer, rescale it down so it's about 300% the original size of the sun. Duplicate that layer, rescale it so it's about 200% the original size of the sun - example)



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Great picture, I like the over all effect of background and character .... also if I'm not mistaken the Kanji in the background/flag means Samurai

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Well done! I like the background of this piece!

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I wish that I drinked. I know it won't solve my problems, but at least I'll have something to blame my problems on.

thnks - this one is popular for some reason?

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Orions Spartans For The Win!

Yes, it's popular because it's a very good looking piece of art.

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I wish that I drinked. I know it won't solve my problems, but at least I'll have something to blame my problems on.