Pencil study of a Samurai in armour - this was part of a bit of prep work for an illustration I did a few months back. The brief was to do a simple, vector-based illo of a knight and samurai meeting (it was to be used on promotional materials for a London-based international law firm opening a new office in Tokyo), and I wanted to get the costume details right before I went on to the simplified versions.
I drew the knight as well...
...although in hindsight, I maybe didn't need as much practice for that.
