Well, another challenge at CGSociety.org is over.
The theme was quite interesting again, “Secret Agent” , so I joined and came up with this:

I wanted to depic the adventures and secret missions of Mister Burîfu, one of the last living ninjas. His age is unknown, since he learned the dark arts of immortality, or maybe he invented them himself… nobody can tell that for sure.
But sure is when he retired he opened his own little shop for sweet colorful birds and tried to live like a normal man.
However sometimes he can’t resist the impulse to liven up the old days.

Before I started this idea I had something other in mind. Something about the clishé-russian who gets infiltrated by the cliché spy/secret agent.
Here are my thumbs and concepts for that idea.