The Bloody Nine

Logen Ninefingers, The Bloody Nine, the most feared man in all the North. And despite that he's a pretty chill guy. His motto? "You've got to be realistic."

This is the second piece of fanart I've done for Joe Abercrombie's "The First Law Trilogy". Very good stuff. His follow up books are also great. The style of this piece is inspired by "Redline," a recently released anime movie directed by the guy who did the "World Record" short in the Animatrix. I'm wondering if more animators will start adapting this black-shading style to their work, or if it will stay the hallmark of Koike, just as orange outlines for unnatural characters is a stylistic hallmark of Mamoru Hosoda.