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This is the final version of my Samuraii dropped out the last background and went in a very different direction for it.
It took me around 10 hours (I think) to finish it.
The symbol means POWER
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Very nice work! Love your detail on the armor!! If you like samurai, check out my comic book project: goo.gl/EwR1JD
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I'd buy this as a poster for my personal Dojo haha. I like the feel of the picture as well.
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If you don't already offer a poster of this illustration, would you like to? I am the new managing editor of Official Karate Magazine and we are looking for bonuses for our readers.
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please send me a note with further information, we can agree on royalties of this particular illustration.
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We are putting together the first two issues of Official Karate, which will be also tied into a martial arts internet marketing network. We have negotiated with a custom framing company to do karate certificates and the thought occurred to us to also do some fine art prints that martial arts dojos might like to buy. Right now I don't have a feeling for what a karate school, or even a karate student might pay but your work is so cool that I think we could find a market for it. How about if I ask Andrew Linick, who is the magazine publisher and the marketer behind all this to contact you. You can also email him at Hanshilinick@gmail.com.
Oh, go to www.officialkaratemag.com and www.joinmagi.wordpress.com to see our working, beta sites. This will let you know we are serious about these projects. Thanks for your consideration.
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Thank you for letting me know. I fancy the idea so please have Andrew Linick contact me with more details at my personal e-mail - buktopster@gmail.com and I can talk with him directly for publishing rights and royalties of my piece. Thank you.
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Very intimediating pose. I loved the BG. Looks splendid with the Samurai. Very nice colouring! Welldone!
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I would bring out the right arm just a little more. It's a bit hard to see. From a distance it appears as if he is one armed. Other than that I really like it.
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Having the background so busy and a similar red to the samurai’s armor seems to distract the viewer from the subject of the piece; I think changing the background color or perhaps making the pattern less dense would allow the subject to stand out more.
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thanks for the comment
I do not remember the thread but I do remember posting it in a couple of "critique wanted" topics
I tried to make the samurai stand out from the background with the blue-ish highlights on his armor but doesn't really do the trick, does it
By the way I tried using a darker background, a black and white, more yellow one and really nothing else fits (feels right) to me than this background with this color. The background is much a part from this painting as the samurai himself, and I put a lot of effort in it.
And thank you again for the comments here and on Samurai 3
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That's soo cool! I don't know what the old background was but this new one is awsome. What's the symbol above his head mean?
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oh by the way the last background was this : [link]
I used it for this newer painting
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That was good too,
By the way, did you already say what the symbol meant in the artist comments? :/
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no I edited it when I uploaded the newer 
the previous bg was good but it didn't really fit the samurai
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не е зле. :} само един малък проблем - фонът е по- на фокус от самурая. <:/
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da nqkolko choveka veche go iztyknaha tozi problem
obache az go imam printirano na golqm format 70x90 i izglejda perfektno, daje sqkash samuraq izpykva ot samata kartina.
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moje bi sled pechat chervenoto na elementite zad nego se uspokoyava, znam li.
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Mojesh da slojish pove4e detail i kontrast v samuraia. fona ne bi triabvalo da e po "aktiven" ot kolkoto figurata kum koiato veroiatno iskash da naso4ish vnimanieto na zritelq. imash i variant da namalish intenziteta na fona.
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mersi shte probvam po kysno s poveche kontrast v samuraq i shte namala saturation-a na fona
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我真实地爱您画的这张图片!!! (i really love this picture that you drew!) especially that you got the word right. :3
and the details are astonishing! ^3^
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I really like the background a lot. Very nicely done. Good work!
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