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M-Skirvin — Younger Sesshomaru
Published: 2011-08-13 06:13:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 812; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 16
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This was an almost successful attempt to capture a younger, crueler Sesshomaru. As we saw in the earlier episodes, Sesshomaru had a cruel nature and a murderous ability. To me that meant that his younger years were spent honing his skills and cultivating that lack of empathy for others. For him, it would have been a thing to be proud of...That is, until he met a little girl-child who was willing to care for him at all costs.
I'm not sure I like how the eyes came out, and getting that snide smile was not the least bit easy. He needs to be "pretty" but cruelty is never pretty and it actually made it much harder to draw him.
You may wonder, "Why all the Sesshomaru art?" Meh, change of pace for a bit. I still adore InuYasha, and he's still my main mental squeeze, but Sess offers a different sort of challenge....
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I'm referring to later when he meets Rin. She was trying to take care of him, even though she was beaten bloody for the fish she tried to catch. She was the first human that melted the ice of his heart.
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Great job! 
BTW, the child he encounters - is it human?
(asking cause I know he hates humans)
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"Elves are terrific. They beget terror." Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett.
Interesting you should mention cruelty and beauty intertwined- it's the charm of the fair folk which, by any definition, Sesshomaru has. That dissonance between unearthly, superhuman beauty and complete apathy toward norman human morals, which a magical being like himself would consider beneath him.
Here, in this picture, I do see cruelty in his face, but it's subtle; I wouldn't have seen it unless you'd said it was what you were going for.
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