Zombie Samurai

I had this idea of an archaeologist type discovering some ancient tomb where there was a corpse of an ancient Samurai. Next thing you know this corpse gets reanimated by a spirit and the poor chap gets choked out.
This started out as a random doodle in Alchemy with the mirror option turned on. Once I had a shape I could identify with, I opened the file up in Corel Painter and started blocking in the figures, then on to Photoshop for the FX, texture and color correction. I like the composition with the victim being cropped on the bottom of the page. Hope you dig it.

Random Doodles

A few warm up sketches and thumbnails that help me to generate ideas. On these I used Ball point pen, colored pencils, and digital painting. I may use some of these thumbnails multiple times and in many combinations.