Saturday, August 29, 2009

Terrific Toshiro

Doodled these Toshirō Mifune sketches while watching one of his many samurai flicks. Man, what an actor! Thought will do a refined color variant over the weekend, but this cartoony version seems amusing as well.

21 comments:

michael robertson said...

super! I like the spontaneous quality of this sketch a lot. It'll be interesting to see where you take this.

ArtSparker said...

Wonderful. I always think of him wiggling his butt in Seven Samurai.

voz said...

Yay! I love it.

My monsters are fans too!

Dream Painter said...

love your illustrations, very expressive!

Tomás Serrano said...

New BW work, fantastic again.

Jason Curtis said...

These are great! The top one is my favorite.

I'd love to see these in sepia.

Asja said...

this is great! i love your lines!

R.Dress said...

Red Beard has to be one of my all time favorite movies of all time. Great subject to draw they came out great.

krisztina maros said...

wow, so nice lines! love his expression.

Vhrsti said...

Wonderful works here. I love your style and creativity!

Roger Simó said...

Really good sketches. And the work about the gods in India is wonderful.

Jannie aka Chickengirl said...

Such beautiful line quality in your work.

Stickers and Stuff said...

so cool and such totally terrific drawings as always

get zapped said...

Beautiful illos. You caught the essence of the samuari.

Aima Kessy said...

Seriously lovin' your line art! :))

Nicky Linzey said...

Wonderful sketches, they are so full of life.

Bjornik said...

these are wonderful drawings! reminds me of the book i had on japanese folklore when i was a kid. pretty much the same strokes! would definitely love to see the colored version too!:)

C.B. Canga said...

these are aweseom

Marcus Hadlock said...

I love him- as do I love old samurai movies! Nice doodles!

Dave said...

Great sketches!

justdoodleit said...

>michael,
It had to be spontaneous or I'd miss much of the film ;)

>ArtSparker,
Hahaha...That's an amusing memory.

>voz,
Thanks! Of course, they better be or else he'd kick their monster butt!

>Jason,
Don't you feel that would make it seem more cowboy western than samurai?

>R.Dress,
I like Red Beard too...although it lacks some of Kurosawa's trademark action sequences and is a touch Dostoevsky-esque in theme. Btw, it was Mifune's last film with Kurosawa.

>Vhrsti,
Glad you think so :)

>Roger,
Gracias Amigo :)

>Björnik,
Wow! That's a wonderful compliment. I'm chuffed :)

>Dream Painter,
>krisztina,
>Tomas,
>Asja,
>Jannie,
>AmyC,
>Aimz,
>get zapped,
>CBCanga,
>Nicky,
>Marcus,
>Dave,
Thank you people for such nice words :)

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