Serengeti Samurai - Graphic Novel

I finally made a Graphic Novel.

My Rino-Riding Samurai from the future.

Old school, Pen and Ink. And in the process nearly destroyed my hand. Some of the pages were quite Ink heavy which required a lot of repetitive actions on my part, with some pages taking up to 6-8 hours of inking. I loved doing the style, but I doubt I will repeat it again, as my arm was aching badly after inking a few of the more detailed pages.

I tried to go for a bit of Franklin Booth/ Joseph Clement Coll with my style thrown in.
Pigma Micron and Japanese Brush pens.

I also had great fun creating the world of the comic.

 

Serengeti Samurai

I had this crazy concept idea of a Samurai in africa, riding a cheetah...but you know how cats are, so it evolved into a this, a Samurai riding a Rhino. The whole concept evolved in a game design class, a sort of a Fallout meets Planescape Torment set in africa. With a guy in an asian armour & derelict space ships. Yeah.
So I am making this into a short graphic novel.

In the mean time, here are the images and doodles inspired from this unfinished saga.

 Also I got to draw on CINTIQ for many of these. But at the end of the day I preferred pencils and pigma-markers with amateur-photoshop skills.

 The initial idea for a boss was refined from this sketch, I did the sketch while sitting at home watching 80's cartoons.