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I took a different approach--instead opting to go with the Lone Wolf 2100 version of this classic storyline. A mix of sci-fi and samurai storytelling, this version of Lone Wolf features a female "cub" named Daisy and her protector Itto who holds a fascinating secret. Francisco Ruiz Velasco did a fantastic job of bringing this futuristic, but horribly ruined world to life. If you haven't read this series, I'd look it up in TPB format and highly recommend it.

This piece pretty much just fell out of my head and onto the page through my pencil.  I did it in blue pencil again, but tweaked it to the red in Photoshop.  There's some discrepancies with it, but overall I think it's a successful piece.

Father and Son, they stood again in Meifumado... The Way of the Warrior.

So it figures my week and I'm late again! Anyways - yeah I LOVE Lone Wolf and Cub! I feel like the odd man out here - I've read & own all 28 (!) volumes of the manga, the sequel and seen all the movies. I'm a self professed samurai genre junkie. So here's my entry for this week! It gave me a chance to study Kojima's brush style and I had a lot of fun with it. Even if the book is a down right noir filled path to hell. Hope you guys dig it!

Lone Wolf & Cub

I had never heard of this until it was chosen as a topic and I had no time to do any real research on it.

Lone Wolf Jam

I don’t know all that much about “Lone Wolf and Cub” and that makes me kind of sad. It looks pretty cool! I do remember being show a scene of it in High School for my Japanese class though.  I guess the main protagonist's family is killed except for his infant son. He puts a ball and a sword on the floor and tells his son to choose between the two. If he chose the ball, the father would kill him and send him to heaven to be with his mother. If he chose the sword he would live and become Ronin like his father. The child briefly walks towards the ball first and the father almost draws his sword to cut him down, but then the baby chooses the sword. Friggen crazy! LOL

Anyhow this is my entry for this week. Like I said I don’t know much about the series so I did a sketch jam with a non-sequitur montage motif using the panels from the manga that I found.

Done in ball point pen and pencil on Bristol plate

Lots of people coming out for this pick. Apparently the magic word with this group is Samurai! :D

~Don

Son for Hire, Sword for Hire

Here's my drawing this week...fresh out of my sketchbook. Please forgive the quality of the image, as I took it with my iPhone.

I love LW&C, though my exposure was only to the first volume of the manga, put out by Dark Horse. I also read it late, and it's hard to come by the later volumes. But it's amazing. If you haven't read it, try and track it down.

Cheers

Patrick

Wolfy and Pup

I have to admit I only have a passing knowledge of Lone Wolf and Cub.  I have seen a couple of the movies and I enjoyed them but it was a while ago.  I read one of the books and put it on that list of "things I need to read more of"... but never did.

Anywho, I don't get to draw this sort of thing very often and it was a blast.

On a side note, I opened a new package of backing boards (that is what I do most of these on) and I don't know what is up with them but they like absorbed the led and didn't want to hang on to the ink.  Granted, these are not made for drawing on but what the eff?

Lone Wolf and Cub

I feel guilty about having never read this series ... and I've also not seen the movies. *gasp*

Another thing I feel guilty about is not coming up with an amusing title for this. I'd love to hear your suggestions. Here, I'll start with ... "Who Run Japantown?". And ... go!

"Lone Wolf and Cub" ... ink on 15"x11" Strathmore illustration board by Robert Elrod.



Check out more of my artwork at www.robertelrodllc.com and my webcomic "Hellbound" at www.hellbound-comic.com. Thanks!

Lone Wolf

I have only read Samurai Executioner by these guys. I hope to read all of Lone Wolf soon, sorry for my absence dudes. I'm back in school. H