Ok, I'm obsessed. I collect the cards when I have money, I doodle the characters, I follow the anime and manga online as they are released in Japan, and I gather the series in the original Japanese subtitled (because it's well known that the For Kids butcher-dub is crud). I've drawn Yami Yugi before, and I've decided that his wacked out hairstyle is extremely fun to draw (difficult, but fun nonetheless).
Over a year ago, as I was reading the manga scanslations online, I discovered that Yugioh was going in a far better direction than I could have ever hoped. It was going into solid plot. Good, old Egyptian, solid plot. And Yami's name would finally be revealed.
Six months later, I finally found out his @#%$ name. And now, over a year later, I've got the first English release of the manga's Pharoah arc, Millenium World, in my hands. I watched the site as the series Yugioh ran through the Pharaoh arc, then ended in the cumulative battle between Yami (now known as Atem) and Yugi. I was happy.
Until I realized I hadn't drawn Atem yet! So here he is, kind of a mix between the manga and anime styles. In the manga, his cloak is violet. The anime had it navy blue. I combined the two. The anime also came up with some weird Ancient Egyptian duel disk (Dia Dank) that they stuck on his left arm, but I decided to opt for the manga's bracelet instead. Most the coloration is anime, while most the details are manga. A blend between the two.
This was incredibly fun and hard to draw. I didn't copy any specific pose, just kinda made my own up from two dozen shots found on the site I used plus the manga I had in hand. At one point in the anime, he picked up a sword and became the ultimate in cool as he actually fought personally (not with monsters or words, but actual sword fighting! How cool is that?!). I decided to depict that in my picture, but I didn't put him on horseback like he was in the anime because I'm not that great with horse anatomy yet. The sword may have been straight bladed; couldn't tell very well because there wasn't a decent shot of it. But it looks cool as is.
Oh, and the site that I get all my pics and info from is the great [link] This site also can be viewed in Thai and French.