all those bloody fights Nariko gets into must've made her real dirty... imagine her clothes would be soaked with blood and she'd probably won't smell very well after hours of fighting ... as you would remember there was a beautiful waterfall in the demo and I'd really love to see her take a break and bathe on that scenery... heres what i came up with. I'd know a lot of u wish to be swimming there with her...
I made this pic not by drawing ... this was done by manipulating photos in photoshop. I used a painting of a woman bathing by the falls (originally by =Offering) and added a cut out picture of Nariko's hair and pasted carefully to the image's head, added accessories such as the armlet and leather bandages on the arms of the woman to make her look more like nariko, then finally added an image of the sword... It sounds simple but took me around 2 hours to get it right... you'd still see flaws if u look closely.. but its good enough for me i guess...