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2026
Hand-Drawn Manga Study on Paper
Approx. 8 × 10 in.
After Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
Yes, I drew this.
This piece is a hand-drawn recreation of one of my favorite moments from Naruto: Might Guy fighting Madara Uchiha.
I wanted to recreate the actual manga artwork rather than reinterpret the scene in my normal style. That meant sitting down and trying to reproduce all of it—the characters, panels, lettering, motion, shadows, tiny lines, and ridiculous amount of detail that makes manga artwork like this feel so alive.
And there are a lot of lines.
For me, though, the reason I chose this particular scene matters just as much as the challenge of drawing it.
Might Guy has always represented something I really respect: working with what you have.
He isn't defined by having every ability available to him. He becomes extraordinary through relentless dedication to the thing he can do—taijutsu.
Then he gets this moment.
Against Madara, Guy pushes that ability to its absolute extreme. Everything he has spent his life developing leads to a point where his strength can no longer be dismissed or underestimated.
That's something I connect with creatively.
I spent a long time not thinking I was good enough to call myself an artist. I still don't think being creative means I have to be amazing at every possible form of art. I can just keep practicing the things I enjoy, challenge myself with things that seem difficult, and see how far I can take them.
This drawing was one of those challenges.
There's a big difference between looking at a manga page and actually trying to recreate one by hand. Once you start drawing it, you notice every little decision that normally disappears when you're simply reading it.
Every line has to go somewhere.
Every shadow has a purpose.
Every chaotic mark helps create movement.
And somehow all of those individual marks eventually become one image.
That's why I'm proud of this one.
It isn't my original character or composition, and I don't pretend that it is. It's my hand recreating artwork that inspired me and testing what I'm capable of making.
Sometimes creating means inventing an entirely new world.
Sometimes it means studying somebody else's and learning from it.
This was me learning.
2026
Hand-Drawn Manga Study on Paper
Approx. 8 × 10 in.
After Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
Yes, I drew this.
This piece is a hand-drawn recreation of one of my favorite moments from Naruto: Might Guy fighting Madara Uchiha.
I wanted to recreate the actual manga artwork rather than reinterpret the scene in my normal style. That meant sitting down and trying to reproduce all of it—the characters, panels, lettering, motion, shadows, tiny lines, and ridiculous amount of detail that makes manga artwork like this feel so alive.
And there are a lot of lines.
For me, though, the reason I chose this particular scene matters just as much as the challenge of drawing it.
Might Guy has always represented something I really respect: working with what you have.
He isn't defined by having every ability available to him. He becomes extraordinary through relentless dedication to the thing he can do—taijutsu.
Then he gets this moment.
Against Madara, Guy pushes that ability to its absolute extreme. Everything he has spent his life developing leads to a point where his strength can no longer be dismissed or underestimated.
That's something I connect with creatively.
I spent a long time not thinking I was good enough to call myself an artist. I still don't think being creative means I have to be amazing at every possible form of art. I can just keep practicing the things I enjoy, challenge myself with things that seem difficult, and see how far I can take them.
This drawing was one of those challenges.
There's a big difference between looking at a manga page and actually trying to recreate one by hand. Once you start drawing it, you notice every little decision that normally disappears when you're simply reading it.
Every line has to go somewhere.
Every shadow has a purpose.
Every chaotic mark helps create movement.
And somehow all of those individual marks eventually become one image.
That's why I'm proud of this one.
It isn't my original character or composition, and I don't pretend that it is. It's my hand recreating artwork that inspired me and testing what I'm capable of making.
Sometimes creating means inventing an entirely new world.
Sometimes it means studying somebody else's and learning from it.
This was me learning.