I'm of the opinion that Kenjutsu doesn't scale well into S-Ranked Ninja Battles.
Like Taijutsu, it generally doesn't provide S-rank on its own, but rather provides a foundation that other techniques are based around.
You'll notice that typically, taijutsu specialists have some for of temporary strength enhancement (e.g. soldier pills, wolf fusion, giant form, medical ninjutsu, 8 Gates etc.) to make them more competitive at high levels.
There are a few elite ninja with excessively broad bodies of skill - but for the most part, these ninja are either famous for that broad base (Hiruzen Sarutobi and his students), or they have the Sharingan to copy skills with. Unless the story pulled some fresh bullshit after I stopped reading/watching, most of the elite ninja are elite because they specialized intensively in a single area.
I agree, but we're not trying to raise everything to Jounin level here. At this stage, we're just getting the basics down. For example, part of the basics of genjutsu is being able to dispel it, which is something that everyone should want to be able to do.
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Quick question, but did we ever get a description of Hisana beyond 'An uchiha who is female'? I'm not finding one.
Not that I know of.
I've been waiting for us to get our Ninja Outfit
TM before drawing anything... Though I suppose we could start discussing concepts any time.
Fanart of Hisana, obviously. I wanted to use perspective/depth to make this picture look more dynamic, but I feel like it just fucked the proportions instead.
Too goofy to be worth continuing, Y/N?
Well, that would depend what you mean by "continuing".... I think the basic concept is fine, and you don't necessarily need to abandon it.
I think you're right that you'd need to rework the perspective and proportions a fair bit to make it work, and this could essentially involve redoing it. It also feels, counter to the perspective, a little flat?
I'm not sure exactly what your drawing process is here, did you clean up the initial lines a lot? My impression, though I could be completely off base here, is that you jumped to the "lineart" phase a bit too soon, and that you might want to spend more time just roughly sketching and refining the basic skeleton and form before getting to drawing nice lines.
Similarly, the face is really something that you have to be prepared to spend a
lot of time erasing and redrawing until it's right (seriously, they're a nightmare).
