Jiraiya

Commission from NYCC 2015; Copic marker, ink, white paint pen, charcoal pencil.

This was a whole lot of fun. We really enjoy taking the Naruto cast and drawing them slightly more realistically; if we had free reign on this we probably would have modified his design a bit more, just in some small ways, to emphasize his character. We always saw Jiraiya as a sort of wandering vagabond/hobo guru. Like a homeless street-person version of Yoda. He's scruffy and skeezy and maybe a little creepy, until you get to know him and find out his genius and his heart.

Anyway, the commissioner of the piece was thinking of completing the three Sannin, and we really hope we get to tackle Tsunade and Orochimaru in this same style.