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Published: 2015-04-18 14:10:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 15211; Favourites: 572; Downloads: 0
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"Strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." - Obi-Wan KenobiI hope the Japanese is right. Spent a lot of time cross referencing different sources to see if what I had was consistent. The words for Master, Wizard, Apprentice and Demon/ Fallen Angel.
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I bought your shirt from teepublic & it's one of my fav shirts. Great work! Ihope you'll consider doing another with characters from the force awakens!
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Thank you for the support! I'm happy that you're happy! I have a good feeling that I'll end up doing another one down the road!
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I knew that Star Wars was inspired by samurai films, as well as spaghetti westerns, Flash Gordon, and mythology. Good work!
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I actually saw a Samurai Darth Vader Figure quite recently. It looked like something like this actually.Except the Empire crest was MUCH bigger.
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魔法使い mahoutsukai
魔術士 majutsushi
魔道士 madoushi
魔術師 majutsushi
など etc.
They all get a little confusing, and part of that is there being a cultural difference with translations. The katakana for wizard, ウィザード, would more succinct, but it's not as fancy as kanji.
Contextually, I find your choice of deshi, 弟子, fits nicely. If you really want to sink in the relationship, then uchideshi, 内弟子, would *probably* fit the master+apprentice relationship jedi have with their padawans, considering how they pretty much lived together. At this point in their lives though, deshi fits both in their current relationship and as a general read.
For the demon/fallen angel part, both of those words already connote differences in English. You have datenshi, 堕天使, which perfectly fits for fallen angel. Just like the (English name for the) Street Fighter character, one of the many Japanese words for demon being akuma, 悪魔, fits just fine. Again, contextually, datenshi would be the better choice to follow the symbolism of the character itself. Otherwise, you can always use demon, デーモン, although you might have people argue that it says daemon, which gets into splitting hair territory.
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I don't want to go into handwriting either since mine is terrible in its own ways, (that is something to work on as well) but you should keep your strokes as close together as possible. It's still legible though.
Here's an example of ma, 魔, in a bigger "font" from Dragonball: vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/d… The bottom stroke shouldn't have quite a bend to it as you have up there. There is also the dangling stroke on the left.
Your 士 should have a significantly shorter bottom, and since it's your last stroke, there should most likely not be a dangling bit from your vertical stroke.
What you have written for tenshi, 天使, seems more like you should loosen your hand a little and give more of a "flick." It just seems very rigid.
*stares at own writing* and this is why I never talk about handwriting. =.=;;
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Anyway, onto the work!
I love the imagery! The red setting suns are a nice touch to the background. I think the best part is how you used the color of the sageo (cord on the saya/sheath) to distinguish their colors. It would have been nice to see Darth Vader's tied, but considering the stylistic choice of keeping it short, it works. This is a beautiful piece of work.
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Hey! Thanks for this huge thing on the writing (the kind of critique I needed while working on it)! I'm not going to pretend that I knew exactly what I was doing, but I'm just glad I didn't end up writing something completely wrong like 'banana' or something 
You can tell I've actually never written Japanese before (or any sort of calligraphy for that matter)! I DO know how exact and particular one is expected to write in the culture- knowing that I was probably butchering the handwriting technique, thank you for the tips and what to watch out for!
This definitely was both fun and challenging deciding the styles of their design and ultimately I aimed for "the same, but different" mantra. Since Star Wars uses color a lot for differentiating characters that's what I decided to go with. I'm glad and appreciate that you noticed all these details!
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Oh, despite how long I've studied (and "studied") the language, I'm still quite noob-ish. Honestly, having seen people write better than me on their first try, I can't tell anyone's skill levels when calligraphy, let alone writing, comes up. It hurts that I'm left-handed (that's not a proper excuse nowadays) *and* don't hold brushes properly the few times I've ever tried in life... Pencils are my friends.
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Haha, when we try it out ourselves we definitely gain a high respect for the people who can do it well! I find it really interesting when someone can analyze certain details of handwriting in general, you just don't really hear that kind of stuff with written English that often, so this is refreshing. Anyways, thank you and I'm glad you're enjoying my work!
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Awesome work!
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Most definitely thank you! And I hope the rumors are true that they want to do a Star Wars spin-off movie based on Seven Samurai
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Nice! I just love these Samurai-era starwars drawings
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I think this is just AWESOME! I can't verify the kanji, but wow, you did put together an amazing image!
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haha, thank you! I think i got the general idea across (i know how specific and varied one word can be), as long as I didn't end up using something completely wrong like "Teddy Bear"!
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You sir, have officially won the... whatever, this is amazing!
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