Spender's series of NaruHina art

[Spender]

My favorite anime couple (one of the few areas where a favorite is clear and not based totally on my mood at the time ). In the last year or so, I've been working at developing my own style, and recently, I think I managed to stumble across it . I've been using NaruHina as way to experiment with a few styles. Here's a few of my NaruHina works.

Ramen Shack of Romance
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/spender/Picture003-1.jpg

My first real attempt at Naruto fan-art, I thought it would be cute to put SasuSaku and NaruHina in a ramen shack. Though Sasuke and Sakura were not as good as I would have liked, Naruto and Hinata turned out fairly okay, I think.

NaruHina: Training Grounds
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/spender/Picture009.jpg

It started out as just a back-to-back holding hands NaruHina tribute, but I added the background to make it more interesting.

Its Okay if its for you, Naruto
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/spender/Picture007-2.jpg

More of a tribute to Hinata than NaruHina, the style I chose to draw this in is the style which I now call my own. I wanted to try and add my own touch to Hinata, rather than simply copying Kishimoto's style. I also tried to do some shading, since its my weakest area and I thought I should practice.

NaruHina Cuddling
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/spender/Picture005.jpg

The style I chose to use for this was based on a self-portrait I had to do in drawing class earlier that day. Again, I was trying to practice shading.


Naru-saga: Hina-MOS
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/spender/Picture.jpg

My most recent Hinata tribute (again, more of a Hinata tribute and less of a NaruHina) that combines Naruto with Xenosaga. I was not happy with the turnout of Hinata in the Cuddling picture, then I remembered that my goal was not to specialize in one particular style, but rather to be diverse and able to draw in multiple styles, like my hero, Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Hikaru No Go). I had been struggling with the "anime" style since I had stopped using it for a long time, but with this one I got back on track. Despite the problems with perspective (I had originally drawn it so that it looked like 'Hina-MOS' was turning at her waiste, but lost that effect as I added more detail to her outfit), this piece of art served as something of an epiphany for me.
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