I’d gotten the idea at the June CAPS meeting, for no particular reason other than really liking Stan Sakai and enjoying his Usagi Yojimbo very much. I just started wondering if I could do a portrait of Stan as Usagi.
It seemed worth a try. So I made a beginning.
As always, I begin with very, very light sketching, to get the general idea down.
It didn’t take me long to realize that trying to do it “realistically” would really look odd. It was a sort of lesson in why cartooning works the way it does – which is a very cool lesson, and makes me respect cartoonists even more.
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