Jin at 40 - colored pencil.

This one is for Laura Bryannan for ever putting the idea of silver haired Jin in my head in the first place, not to mention all her wonderful stories.

fanart ©Aruarian-Dancer
Samurai Champloo ©manglobe/Shimoigusa Champloos

This is very much my usual style when I do a "pretty" Jin picture. Stop while leaving a lot of white as in "Whiter Shade of Pale" and "Tessen". So, naturally, I wanted to save a version of this before I go further with the idea of dark sky.

So why did his kimono end up in that shade of purple? It just did. Actually, it is a result of 4 different layers of pencil colors. (I'm sure there's a lot of psychological analyses one can do on the issue. After all, you mix blue with red and you do get some shade of purple. lol)

But the original image that I had in mind was Jin in moonlight (Well, he had a black formal 5-crested kimono on in that vision... and no cherry blossoms. But I always wondered why a rounin who's trying to be inconspicuous would wear a kimono with such a readily recognizable crest as Takeda clan's in the first place. Pride in his lineage, maybe...? It's also possible that was the only kimono and he had no money to buy another...). Anyhow, I might still play with the idea and do a version 2 of this picture.

Silver/grey haired Jin might become my next addiction. (I will try not to combine that with the animal ears addiction of mine -- because then I'd end up with InuYasha...)