Yes, it is indeed another Yoji Shinkawa character that I've tried to recreate, but this time I've gone wild (compared to my usualy techniques) and experimented much more with colour.

The original pencil drawing (2 hours maybe) was scanned and darkened and then I thought of ways to add colour - something I'd also intended to do but never got round to doing it because it would involved actual paints (I dont like painting) and I was busy elsewhere and a coloured Ninja wasn't the main focus (thats where Clint Eastwood comes in).

So, I finally found a way of adding colour so that it would blend with the other colours to look similar in effect to what Shinkawa has done in Photoshop, and yet if you hold this image up next to his, they are completely different (other than the fact my right foot is a bit high...)

Three colour layers later and here is a much stroner and darker looking Ninja. If you've ever seen the original, you'll notice the colours are much lighter and that there isn't as strong a contrast to the colours and the plain white background.

As usual, I'm experimenting with colour but I must remember that I still need to draw the images first...