These NPC tokens were made for a L5R game I play in. I used colors to make the PC's or Player Characters stand out. I tried to stick to black and white like an Ansel Adams photo, or minimal color so we could distinguish them easy. I only did the picture, the game token frames/rings were purchased assets from Roll20 Marketplace, Gabriel Pickard.
The softer tonal shading is back from early 2023 where I was working out softer shading versus a more crisp style such as Kenjiro.
Another note is drawing samurai inspired armor is SUPER intensive so I am trying the technique some painters used to make/fool the human eye and blend things together about a few feet away.