here’s my entry for the @cyberpunkgame monthly challenge! i knew i wanted to create an original character for one of the gangs, and after doing a bit of research, the tyger claws were my choice!
there wasn’t a ton of concrete visual reference for the tyger claws at the time, so i had fun with taking extra creative liberties with certain design elements. roughly 12 hours later over the span of 4 days, and here’s kato’s finished design! i ended up incorporating a few elements we’ve already seen to make him feel more familiar to night city (such as the jacket pads seen on another tyger claws member, the neck detail seen on other tyger claws, the face mask design based off of the tyger claws logo, and the katana design from a female v render).
this is definitely the most time and effort i’ve put into any piece, and i genuinely hope it shows. i have a lot of passion for the cyberpunk 2077 universe already, and i know i’m not alone even just from looking at the rest of the entries (seriously, you choombas are all so creative)!
if anyone’s wondering, i split the drawing into two so clicking on each part would show more detail than if it were one giant piece. if you want to see it as one full piece, it’s been posted to both my twitter: @volante_diana and art instagram @valkyrie_illustrations (where i post my art weekly)!
Thank you for sharing your design of Kato with us, @valkyrie-diana - we can definitely see all the time and effort you poured into this and we really appreciate all the details.
Also - we see that our Tumblr seems to have a thing for our Tyger Claws
