Japanese Samurai Art by Sword Polisher

David S. Hofhine

www.swordpolish.com

An early GAMERA drawing from 1975.  It begins!!!		I originally went to college on two art scholarships.  After the first semester I switched to Industrial Technology and Graphic Arts Management because I decided I wanted to actually be able to get a job after graduation.  So, find on this page some assorted fun doodles from back in the day.  DAVE
Ito Ogami the baby cart assassin	Seoi-otoshi from an old sketchbook
This is a layout map I made for myself for a keisho polish on an insanely complex ju-monji yari I worked on.		Detail from a very old water color.  Not great, but it won a state art competition back in high school.
A small sketch: armor on box with matchlock		more sketchbook fun, bonus points if you can guess the model!
Okay, it occurs to me that my own art is not particularly amazing, so included bellow are a few original art pieces from my collection. These are pages from a comic book adaptation of a novel that I helped write.  It was originally titled "Ghost Sword", but ended up being published under the title Witchblade Demons in 2002.  These 2 pages were drawn by professional comic book artist Keu Cha and inked by Jay Leisten.  Click on the art pages for original content from the novel Witchblade: Ghost Sword by Mike Baron.		A t-shirt graphic from college featuring Ippon seoinage.  Logo, text and color were added for printing.