Vash the Stampede

Dedicated to my good gal pal ATHENATT
Man, I've wanted to draw this guy for four years now. It feels great to pull it off. He's one of my all-time favorite anime characters.

I wanted to portray him realistically, and in a different way than I feel we normally see him. I LOVE his gun, and it was hard to go without it, but it didn't seem necessary for this scenario. I mixed the cartoon designs and the manga designs to make him represent both, so in case you're wondering why his mechanical arm looks funny, it was drawn that way at one point by Nightow in the manga.

I assume that out in the desert he would get hot in that jacket. He would occasionally take a moment to rest in some alleyway in the shade, and un-button his jacket to get some air in there. Thus this portrait was born. Plus we almost never see what he wears underneath his jacket except for in the final episode, or when he locates Caine the Longshot in the hills. I got his undersuit from the actual character design sheet in the Trigun Art Book.

Let me hear what'cha think!

Here's the WIP of this! [link]

Here's the colored version [link]

Here are the other TRIGUN characters:
Nicholas D. Wolfwood: [link]
Legato Bluesummers:[link]
Millions Knives:[link]
(There are colored versions of them too.)

Media: HB mechanical pencil, Ebony Pencil, Blending Stumps and a kneaded eraser
Original Size: 13x15
Paper: Canson 70lb drawing paper
Completed on 04-08-05