This is the artwork that I've made for BudK Catalog. They're making swords and all kinds of martial art weapons I guess... So that's a naginata my guy's holding. They wanted a calmed Autumn atmosphere which I very much liked, and I guess I'm getting better with painting snowy mountains
sorry to be the one to finally point this out but that's not a naginata. A naginata is a pole arm type weapon with a very long grip like that of a spears but with a slashing edge instead of a stabing one. what you drew is more like a nagamaki which is a sword much like the katana but with a far larger grip usually averaging three times the original grip length. great image regardless but as a avid researcher of ancient japanese weaponry and military preferably the sengoku era when the samurai was at it's peak, I had to point this minor flaw out