Bastard Samurai

Once I saw the stock image from [link] a concept had already flashed in my head, and I knew I just had to use it.

This piece is different than my usual photomanipulations, because it's lighter than the dark ones I usually do. I also tried to imitate that really cool HDR effect in this.

When I showed the WIP (work-in-progress) version to ~hardcorefudge, he suggested to change it to nighttime. I tried and it became much harder to blend the tiger, so I decided to leave it this way.

Title is a song from High on Fire's newest album, Snakes for the Divine (which is pretty awesome btw).

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