Lone Wolf and Cub by Yo Kuri

The thicker lines enhcance the blacks offset by the luminscient sun behind the centralized characters.  This type of technique gives the piece an antique feel.  The fine line work for Cub and facial features is a nice offset.  The skulls, the inking works and accents the pending doom.  Congrats on a great piece.

Very striking!

Fantastic LW&C! Nailed it. 

Inspired artwork by Yo Kuri!  There's life and death both powerfully represented here in folklore illustration.  While Ogami and Daigorō are on meifumadō, they like all life heads toward the inevitable, but they do so with purpose.  The linework appropriately suggests that the dead's essence flow through them as a conduit to reach the afterlife.    

Yo, that's dope! I saw him share it on Insta and should've known it was yours!

A totally cool piece! Love he skulls in particular.

Great Scratchboard look with Jar-Dropping Detail!!

Transcendent LW&C marching across an infinite skull-scape!  This reads so well at all magnifications and reductions --- great value control despite all the detail.  Feels a bit like iconographic religious imagery 

Fully agree about the feeling of iconographic religious imagery. The rays radiating from the characters immediately reminded me of a painting of the Virgin Mary or a Biblical saint. It's easy to picture Ogami as a saint or an angel in this context. Additionally, the entire composition also reminds me of the Japanese Rising Sun with Ogami and Daigorō in the center. Interestingly enough, I count 16 rays around the central characters if you include the entire scene. Perhaps I will have to ask Yo Kuri if this was intentional and deliberate.

The man knows what he's doing and I'm sure there are more hidden gems and ciphers to be smoked out of this world-beater image.  Congrats again!

Beautiful ink work on this! Huge congrats!

Magnificent

Kojima. Miller. Pope. Kuri.

Wow, this is stellar! Yo Kuri straight killing it!!

What a show stopping piece. I absolutely love this! The composition is incredible and love the rising sun feel to the action lines. The depth to the skulls is beautifully horrific. Incredible piece Daryl!

Lone labor of love, I'm sure!  So much waivy lined goodness throughout!  Worthy add to the LWaC collection.  Congrats!

B E A U T I F U L ! Mindblowing...

Wow! Absolutely stunning Lone Wolf and Cub commission! I'm a huge fan of the comic and this drawing by Yo Kuri blows me away! Love the pride that Ogami Itto shows in this piece. Yo Kuri really captures the essence of the Ronin and his son, Daigoro. I love Yo Kuri's inkwork here, the way the lines flow along the folds of his Kimono. I also love the lines radiating from Ogami and Daigoro, like the rising of the sun. The sea of skulls is a great finishing touch. Fabulous commission, congrats!

I couldn't have said it any better myself. So many things to love about this piece. I know Yo Kuri also put a lot of thought and attention into the line work on Ogami Ittō's yukata to make the fabric flow a certain way. The textures and values all compliment each other beautifully.

A cover quality commission. The line work is superb and the detail amazing.

Yo Kuri strikes again, amazing one!