The Story of Sasaki Kojiro (Looking for Artist)

[solstace]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojiro

I want to do the story of Sasaki Kojiro, who is said to be the toughest enemy that Miyamoto Musasahi faced

I plan on having the focus of the story being on Kojiro's life story, making him the protagonist and portraying Musashi as the villain. In the story, Musashi is said to be three hours late. I am going to use this in the story to give Kojiro time to meditate the trifles of his life. The more carefree aspects of his life will be presented in this part of the story.

When the battle actually starts, blows and insults will be exchanged, and a short flashback to Kojiro's teacher will begin when Musashi takes a certain stance. After the flashback, it will be shown that Musashi took advantage of this hesitation to impale Kojiro. Despite having a wooden sword through him, Kojiro will use his legendary technique, the "Tsubame Gaeshi" or "Swallow Reversal". Musashi will dodge the technique, yet still gets his topknot slashed off, which makes him realize that Kojiro was indeed going easy on him.

I have to fine tune this idea, but is anyone up for it?

[desertopa]

He gets impaled on a wooden sword?

[Blackmoon]

I figured that would be "impale" as in "stab him with it, but not actually pierce because it's a boat oar".

I'm a massive Kojiro geek, so I wanna work on this really bad, but I already agreed to Desertopa's and Mr. Cales' projects. D:

Maybe I can do guest art for a fight scene.

(And besides, Musashi totally didn't win that fight, he had Sasaki assassinated. Why else would they name the island after the loser? </wmg>)

[solstace]

Yeah. I can put this project on hold, because I feel that your samurai noir would be absolutely PERFECT for that. I'd like the design for Kojiro to be similar to his in Fate/Stay Night. I feel he was probably a more elegant swordsman. I mostly posted this because I figured I'd forget it otherwise.

[Blackmoon]

Every time I think of Kojiro, I think of Ukyo from Samurai Shodown. Every. Time.

EDIT: Well, either way, you gotta have blue hair.

[solstace]

Yeah. The more I think about this, the more I want to do it, hence why I turned Eidolic over to Tom.

I'm thinking I want to try drawing this bishonen style. I'll get a sketch of Kojiro-sama up soon.


I'm really excited.

[Blackmoon]

Sourusutaasu-kun~, write me up a script. I wanna try to get some work done on this this month when I'm not doing Enso. :3

[solstace]

Oh. I already started writing AND drawing it.

O.o

[Blackmoon]

Wh- aww. You weren't posting anything so I figured it stalled. D:

[solstace]

Sorry. I know I mentioned it in Troper Updates a couple days ago. Guess I forgot to post it here.

Also,

Quick sample from page 1.