Japanese Samurai Art by Sword Polisher David S. Hofhine

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An early GAMERA drawing from 1977.  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. Also, the above diorama mash up of Gamera attacking Matsumoto castle at 1/350 scale is for sale if you feel you can not live without it! DAVE
Ito Ogami the baby cart assassin		My old dog King!
This is a layout map I made for myself for a keisho polish on an insanely complex ju-monji yari I worked on.	Optimus Prime sketch
Clint in pencil and charcoal		Detail from a very old water color.  Not great, but it won a state art competition back in high school.
more sketchbook fun, bonus points if you can guess the model!		A small sketch: armor on box with matchlock
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 below for cover gallery and sample chapters from Mike Baron's original novel Witchblade: Ghost Sword.		A t-shirt graphic from college featuring Ippon seoinage.  Logo, text and color were added for printing.