Samurai Champloo
It's more subtle overall than the Mugen one, but that kind of reflects Jin's personality: understated. XD I used more of my Chinese paper cuts along with origami paper patterns that I scanned. I centered the design around him, and at some point, it started reminding me of a peacock tail ^^;
added 05/21/2005
Heh, this is one of the most amusing images of Mugen I've ever seen XD The image came from an ad for the Japanese DVDs and after a bit of fixing, it was good to go. I imitated the style of the covers, with the diagonal design and heavy use of patterns (some henna tatoos and Chinese paper cuts I had lying around XD).
added 05/21/2005
It's Fuu! Samurai Champloo has more style in its opening than most series have in their entire run. I painted the sunflowers from a photograph, and reconstructed several parts of Fuu that weren't in the original image. Then I went back over her, roughed up her lines and finger-painted! Well, it's my take on "stir-fried" media ^^
added 09/28/2004
