The fic "Way of the Sword" is a nice a/u multi-chapter fic, blending Gravitation and Rurouni Kenshin charas together convincingly and creatively. It is a fresh take on the two universes. Eiri as a samurai who knows Kenshin makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Eventually the fanfic section of the planet will be up, where you will be able to read the story, as I have permission from the author to post it. Until then, you can read it at gurabiteshiyon.net.

This is one of the few images completely done using various CG. That's highly unusual for me. The chara faces were done on an oekaki board. I found myself adding the kimono collars to the drawings and knew I was channelling this fic. So I decided to bring the two drawings together on one canvas and make a frontispiece for the fic.

I wanted the background to have a tatami feeling to it yet still have a larger pattern to make it interesting. The shape is from a Chinese symbol font set with the texture added in Photoshop.

I feathered the faces so they would blend into the background. Initially I thought about cutting them out from their oekaki backgrounds but the feathering works well enough here.