Art Usagi » Byzantium http://artusagi.com Art in progression Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:25:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 First work of the year! http://artusagi.com/2010/01/06/first-work-of-the-year/ http://artusagi.com/2010/01/06/first-work-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:49:10 +0000 Usagi Chan http://artusagi.com/?p=1058

It’s a cameo of Constantine the great that I made to cross promote my historical webcomic, Emperors of Byzantium, and my friend Irving’s blog, Neo Byzantium.

It was done with my favorite brush-pens, on a smallish piece of bristol board.

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This is the cover for the latest chapter of Emperors, and it’s gonna be a good one!

It was done with colored inks and a terminally ill watercolor brush on incredibly depressing paper. You can see the wrinkles it made on the wash areas.

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