Konbanwe! (Good Evening!)

Hello everybody, I'm Roxas.  I'm part of a group of teenage artists specializing in manga. We're called Project Baransu Artists.  We've been working together for a while now and now we're starting a blog to show some of our art.  Here's a piece I drew that is a sketch of a character called Mikenno. I'm not exactly finished with his character, so this might not be exactly what he looks like later.  I drew this with:

• A regular #2 pencil
• A triangular eraser
• A 3B graphic pencil
• A Superfine tip pen
• A Medium tip pen
• A Brush tip red marker

I first used the #2 pencil to sketch the face, hair, and body shape.  After that I went and added in some detail, still with the #2, such as the bandages, collar and headpiece/hat thing.  After that I cleaned it up with a 3B graphic pencil and added the sword, sheath, and shoulder cover.  Next I inked in all that with the Medium and Superfine tip pens.  After looking over it I decided to put in the demon wing ( Which was not there on the original Mikenno.  But then several other things in this weren't on the original Mikenno. ) to balance out the sword handle and sheath on the other side.  I inked that in with the Superfine pen after drawing it in #2 pencil, then decided to go for shading.  I used the reasonably soft 3B pencil to do this, and I used my fingertip to smudge it.  I was very pleased with how the shading turned out, but I still needed a background.  Pure laziness was my motive to do the bloodstains because I REALLY didn't feel like coming up with a area for the drawing.  That took me a while and when I felt it was done, I asked some classmates for some "constructive criticism" (which is a term my S.S. teacher uses a ton).  They pointed out some areas which were pretty bare.  Once I fixed that I decided that first of all, I really liked the contrast of the blood being the only thing with color, and second of all, I spent a LOT of time on the shading.  So I left the coloring be.  Overall, I spent maybe 1-1/2 to 2 hours on this, but the finished product was nice.  Okay then, thanks for looking, you'll probably see some stuff my friends drew soon, so bye for now.  If you'd like us to draw something specific for you, don't be afraid to ask, we have plenty of time to kill (NO, DON'T STAB TIME, KYO!!!!!) .  Sayonara!