Hyuga Neji

Merry Christmas, Cora! This really is a Christmas present, but considering she already recieved the original and already OPENED IT (grrr...) I decided to post it here!

My Midnight Addictions friends'll recognize this, huh?

Anyway, this started out the usual way, as a pencil sketch. On a 17x20 sheet (I love those things. So big. So much room to spread out. ^_^) that was pretty big. Then I was looking at it like, "Should I shade it and leave it black-and-white (like usual), or should I try coloring it, like that Bleach present I did...?" And then, I decided to ink it. Let me tell you, every step of this past the sketch, inking, coloring, and the background especially (GASP! I did a background!), I was so terrified that I was gonna mess it up! 'cause you can't erase that stuff! Which is why I normally color my stuff on the computer, but I wanted this to be special. I hope it all worked out, then!

His Byakugan eyes were actually fun to draw. ^_^ But don't ask me about his arm. I'm gonna leave it up to a Hyuga to be able to do that. >_< And as for that background, I've decided that backgrounds aren't so bad if I have something to look off of. This is from the Shippuuden scene where Neji was fighting that clone dude. Very helpful, that.

Neji (c) Kishimoto Masashi-san
art by me, mormongirlbyu