Stan Sakai
July 11. 2016

Usagi Yojimbo #160 cover - Death by Fugu: An Inspector Ishida Mystery. A Shogunate official is killed, and a puffer fish is the suspected murder weapon.


The art was drawn on 11x17 inch 2-ply 500 series cold press Strathmore bristol with a 10x15.5 image area.




Very rough pencils drawn with a 0.3 mm 2H mechanical pencil.




Finished pencils--.5 mm HB mechanical pencil. The borders were ruled with a 3.5 technical pen.




Inked with a Koh-i-Noor Art Pen and Badger Black Opaque ink (old formula).




Erased with Magic Rub eraser.




Black spotted with a Pentel Brush Pen filled with Badger Black Opaque ink, and details added with Koh-i-Noor Art Pen.