I drew this as an entry for Experimental Comic Kotone Weekly Drawing Contest. The theme was "Favourite Anime/Manga" -- a cliche these days. I personally do not quite like this theme. However, I wanted to practice pencil colour cross-hatching I had just read from the book Coloured Pencil Drawing Techniques by Iain Hutton-Jamieson so I started drawing this.

Well, as the theme requires, I thought of my favourite mangas. It is quite unfortunate that at that time I liked three titles with very different themes: detective, go, and shinobi. So I decided to fuse them in a single drawing.

The result is quite satisfactory. However, the special thing about this drawing is not the pencilling, but the colouring. I worked quickly for my own standard and cross-hatching was new to me. Perhaps the cross-hatching is not evident from the drawing, as I must confess that I still used my usual value-centric colouring style.

In case you cannot figure it out, the characters I fused here are: Edogawa Conan from Detective Conan, Shindo Hikaru from Hikaru no Go, and Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto. I thought of the naming just like that, no particular reason. Does Ushingawa Consaru sound Japanese to you? :D
Ju-lian of RoMB suggested the name Hisunan. Perhaps Ushingawa Hisunan sounds better than Ushingawa Consaru? Hmm... I don't know.

The one thing I do not like about the colour composition is the dominant red on the face. Too bad Sharingan eyes have red pupil, the same colour as Conan's glasses. Another thing is the chakra glow around the go stone. Somehow it does not seem right...

Dimension: A4 paper (21 x 29.7 cm) Paper: printing paper Pencils: HB genuine Colour pencil: Faber-Castell watercolour pencils and Toyo colour pencils Work duration: two days pencilling, one day colouring Date finished: 23 August 2003