My tribute to Sega's Shinobi

Ninjas have always been some of my favorite characters since childhood, Sega's Shinobi being my all time favorite. I have always wanted to design one but was never satisfied with my results. A while back I actually got serious and went through several iterations and finally got something I am happy with. I toyed with weapons other then swords (I still gave him one, but my ninjas main weapons are bombs) and designed my ninja around the idea of flinging sticky bombs. I really like the idea of moving swiftly and planting bombs on various things, living or not O_O. In the the end what makes my ninja mine, is his helmet and bomb approach. I know bombs have been used by ninjas in previous media before, but sticky bombs or attached bombs is the main kick my assassin has. I would love to design a game after this guy.

 I did the final in one shot with ink pen and painted it digitally.