samurais are usually portrayed as powerful men with great armor and very intimidating, this is not that case, this samurai is a beauty with a lethal ability in handling the sword, her armor is a dress since she relies a lot on her abilities, She has only received few injuries when she was younger due to her inexperience and since then she has never been injured and her sword only knows the taste of blood.
Ashenta.
complete sketch of this woman, I had to pu the eraser there so the camera could focus the paper.
More details in this drawing, the vertical hatching helps a lot when it comes to draw the shadows.
I decided to draw the shadows in this sketchy way just applying more presure on the paper to give her different shades of gray but still keeping the vertical lines and not faded all the drawing, I hope yoy like it this way.