dialuca01 asked me to draw his elemental tiger character in Oriental Armor so I tried something a bit different:

-I thought "ok so Oriental....let's not go Samurai, I do that too often. Ok so Chinese? What's Chinese, that one pilot from "Gundam Wing" is! Chang Wufei! Oh yeah I built his Gundam as well, let's use that as a base!"

-So I did a doodle of Dialucca in armor that was shaped, somewhat, like the Shenlong Gundam from 'Wing. But in order to not look TOO Gundam I looked up Chinese armor patterns and incorporated them into the armor base I'd created.

-Then I painted the fuck out of it, and I really like the results!

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