The Ten Tailed-Kids

Here is a fan art of mine, based on some characters in the manga/anime Naruto. The characters are actually nine tailed-beasts (bijuu), from the one-tailed raccoon-dog (tanuki) to the nine-tailed fox. I've personified them into children-form because I thought it might be interesting. I guess I like personifying things. The boy in sandy-brown colors is based on the one-tailed raccoon-dog, named Shukaku. The two-tailed cat (nekomata) is the girl in blue, named Matatabi. The three-tailed turtle is the boy in gray and brown, named Isobu. The four-tailed monkey is the boy in red, named Son Gokū. The five-tailed dolphin-horse (a fictional creature) is the one in pale almost-white aquamarine, named Kokuō. The six-tailed slug is the girl in indigo-ish-white, named Saiken. The seven-tailed insect is the girl that has the most colors (blue, yellow, orange, green), named Chōmei. The eight-tailed bull-headed octopus (ushi-oni) is the girl in pink, named Gyūki. Last but definitely not least, the nine-tailed fox is the boy in fiery colors, named Kurama. Because they are all based on beasts, they don't actually have a gender, and their gender is usually assumed as male, but I decided that a variety in the genders would be better. So I drew them with different genders. 

I'm not as satisfied by my artwork as I wished I was though. I think I could have planned the composition better. Two of the characters are also of lighter colors that seem plain as compared to the other more colorful characters. I guess that may be because I drew this as soon as the idea popped into my mind, first drawing Shukaku, followed by Kurama and then the others, adding more wherever I saw space. In a sense, this was done quite 'spontaneously'. It had also started out as doodles until I thought I should line them and color them to 'give them life' (?) Anyways, I think I like the raccoon-dog, the fox and the cat the best out of the characters I drew...

Alice's Shadow

This sketch was done last year, when I was caught in the Alice in Wonderland craze (actually, I still am). This was inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. The characters/objects depicted in the drawing, clockwise from top left, are: the "Drink Me" bottle, the Queen of Hearts (card), the Ace of Hearts (card), the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, the Red Knight, Alice, the Caterpillar and the Mushroom, the Dormouse. I didn't color the drawing, so its colors consist of black, gray and white, and this is because I wanted the mood of the art piece to be more sombre.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is about Alice falling through a rabbit hole and landing in Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass is about Alice slipping through a large mirror (looking glass) and ending up in the Looking-Glass World. In these worlds that she visited in her dreams, she meets characters such as the this drawing is mainly about Alice growing up and leaving her childhood fantasies behind. That's mainly why I decided to make the sketch more sombre in a sense, because I think its kind of sad when a child grows up and dreams give way to reality.