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I wanted to test myself on a quick concept piece for my first time using Procreate, so I gave myself the general idea of a son of a fisherman. I wanted him to appear grumpy and tired, acting like he's been sent out to do a job that he doesn't want to do. With bruising eyebags, a scowl on his face and a slight slouch, he wields a reengineered Matchlock Musket, passed down his family for generations leading back to the Edo period, half-carved from procrastination and now used as a powerful fishing spear.
He's based in a coastal-town in Japan, where cold weather and snow is a normal factor of every day life, even during summertime. He layers himself with his grandmother's blankets for extra protection, with heavy-duty army boots studded with metal to pave way easier across the snowy terrain, and sports old, cracked armour just below his thighs to his ankles and on his hands. If he's asked why, he would probably answer something along the lines of "it protects me from sharp objects and shrapnel hidden in the snow," but we all know it's just because it makes him look a little cooler. In his pocket are a diary and a sketchpad, filled with frustrated rambles and doodles of the white-blanketed environment around him.