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The Challenge: “Draw a picture of your character at age 5. Include any objects (weapons, toys, parents) that you feel are necessary.”

…A nice, easy, and above all, simple, challenge. The only problem was, I immediately realized that a certain critical event, namely Kyuubi’s attack, would have occurred in Konoha during my character’s fifth year (which was completely coincidental, by the way. I’d decided on her age long before I joined Ninja Society…). Fool that I am, I just had to try and draw it…
Pulling this picture together involved a crash course on drawing running figures, weeks of fighting with my dismal perspective skills, and days of failed attempts and half-starts. The end result isn’t perfect, by any means, but I am satisified that I have executed the original idea to the best of my current ability.

The drawings themselves are done with 100% traditional materials; ink marker, pigment liner, and parchement paper. The actual image is a digital composite of four different traditional drawings…without the ‘undo’ button, I was too chicken to place all of my eggs in one basket, so I drew this in sections. They are as follows: Kyuubi, the humans, Kyuubi’s background, and the Konoha background. Kyuubi’s pose I stole directly from the pages of the Naruto Manga (first chapter); for the humans, I referred to several drawing books, but the final poses were (mostly) my own. They are:

 Bottom right: …well …the Fourth Hokage…I just had to include him…
 Right: Gekko Hayate’s father, shouting for someone offside to hurry up.
 Center: Hagetaka Kiku (Maiden Name Gekko Kiku) and two-year-old son Aoi. Holding her hand is her daughter, five-year-old Hagetaka Miyoko, one of my main characters and the character for which this picture was made. Also of note is the Aivary (sp?) (the round building in the background) with the Hagetaka Family Crest partially showing.
 Center, background: Fifteen-year-old Hatake Kakashi races out in front of his Sensei. (I realized, after I inked it, that I had forgotten to add his signature scarecrow pants…oh well…)
 Left: The charred gash on his face already forming into his trademark scar, twenty-year-old Raido Namiashi forcibly carries twelve-year-old Umino Iruka away from the battle…and from his parents. Anyone who is familiar with the Naruto storyline should know the rest of the story behind this.
 Bottom left: 6-year-old Hana Inuzuka flees the sceen.

I tied the four together in Photoshop, added the character shadows, supplimented the more delicate shading on the buildings that the scanner had mangled, and added the dark sky. Then I did a final clean-up and created the layout in PSP. I’m so glad it’s finally done!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto Characters, or any part of the Naruto world. The creation rights belong to Kishimoto Masashi, and the publishing rights belong to...well, not me, anyway.

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The Challenge: “Draw a picture of your character at age 5. Include any objects (weapons, toys, parents) that you feel are necessary.”

…A nice, easy, and above all, simple, challenge. The only problem was, I immediately realized that a certain critical event, namely Kyuubi’s attack, would have occurred in Konoha during my character’s fifth year (which was completely coincidental, by the way. I’d decided on her age long before I joined Ninja Society…). Fool that I am, I just had to try and draw it…
Pulling this picture together involved a crash course on drawing running figures, weeks of fighting with my dismal perspective skills, and days of failed attempts and half-starts. The end result isn’t perfect, by any means, but I am satisified that I have executed the original idea to the best of my current ability.

The drawings themselves are done with 100% traditional materials; ink marker, pigment liner, and parchement paper. The actual image is a digital composite of four different traditional drawings…without the ‘undo’ button, I was too chicken to place all of my eggs in one basket, so I drew this in sections. They are as follows: Kyuubi, the humans, Kyuubi’s background, and the Konoha background. Kyuubi’s pose I stole directly from the pages of the Naruto Manga (first chapter); for the humans, I referred to several drawing books, but the final poses were (mostly) my own. They are:

 Bottom right: …well …the Fourth Hokage…I just had to include him…
 Right: Gekko Hayate’s father, shouting for someone offside to hurry up.
 Center: Hagetaka Kiku (Maiden Name Gekko Kiku) and two-year-old son Aoi. Holding her hand is her daughter, five-year-old Hagetaka Miyoko, one of my main characters and the character for which this picture was made. Also of note is the Aivary (sp?) (the round building in the background) with the Hagetaka Family Crest partially showing.
 Center, background: Fifteen-year-old Hatake Kakashi races out in front of his Sensei. (I realized, after I inked it, that I had forgotten to add his signature scarecrow pants…oh well…)
 Left: The charred gash on his face already forming into his trademark scar, twenty-year-old Raido Namiashi forcibly carries twelve-year-old Umino Iruka away from the battle…and from his parents. Anyone who is familiar with the Naruto storyline should know the rest of the story behind this.
 Bottom left: 6-year-old Hana Inuzuka flees the sceen.

I tied the four together in Photoshop, added the character shadows, supplimented the more delicate shading on the buildings that the scanner had mangled, and added the dark sky. Then I did a final clean-up and created the layout in PSP. I’m so glad it’s finally done!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto Characters, or any part of the Naruto world. The creation rights belong to Kishimoto Masashi, and the publishing rights belong to...well, not me, anyway.

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