Matoba Seiji - From start to finish -

So... i've mentioned before that Natsume Yuujinchou is one of my all time fav shows...
but just cause i really like soemthing doesn't mean i'll be able to make decent fan art of it...

So enter Matoba Seiji, head of the Matoba clan of exorcist and probably one of the most terrifying non-evil antogonist ever...

I say he's terrifying cause of the way he treats Natsume (and hell anyone else around him) but honestly... he isn't evil... he's actually kinda pitiful in some of the chapters of the manga... he doesn't really understadn the idea of asking for assistance.... he just kind of blackmales.... or kidnaps.... or shows up at the door of the house you are living at with the full knowledge that natsume hasn't told his guardians that eh can see things other people can't....
it's what he does....

so why would i attempt to draw a character that gives me the chills every time i see him?
Cause he's my friends fav character.... hell he's one of my fav characters too.... but the thing about his is he has his right eye covered (how he fights with bow and arrow is questionable but again... so many theories regarding this show) so i thought it would be funny to draw his Horrible and apparently disfigured eye for her (fun fact it would be adorable as hell... cause i would giggle....) but to be able to draw that pic i have to be able to draw him in general...
so this was really just practice.

ok well for my first time ever drawing him it wasn't terrible... his eye is too big and his mouth is too far over and his hair is too poofy but those are all relatively easy fixes....
so i shrank the eye moved the mouth over and made the hair MORE poofy.... oops....

somehow i think he looks even more cute in the finished product then he does in the sketch....
why does everything i touch end up cute? (okay i know why but even when i purposfully draw ugly or morbis things i still get comments like Cute.... ugh)
i picked his colouring based off a screen shot cause the entire series has a kind of muted nuetral feel.... which goes again my 'use all the colours of the rainbow' mentality. but it was a lot of fun.... overall the whole thing only took a few hours... and it was a fun little experiment.
will i ever draw him again? maybe... who knows... maybe i'll make him sparkle next time.
Matoba makes his first intro to the show in the 3rd season of Natsume yuujinchou which is going to be released by NISA soon... but you can watch over at crunchyroll if you want