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This is actually my first giftart for
nightambre. She's very sweet and she likes Ino and well, I don't know. Her art inspires me to keep working on improving my own stuff, as I've seen on hers. *hugs ya very tightly!* If she wants the non sig, without background, clean white bright page version then let me know.
Also dedicated to
Wreeth, her art inspired the rain bit. Because of the hurricanes, that are going through florida, that's pretty much all you can do, is wait it out. *warm hugs your way*
This started as a Oekaki on The Z's board, the applelet crashed on me, not that I mind, but I captured the lineart, then completely redid it. Corrected a ton of stuff, and just decided to give up on clean lines, so this is in pencil sketch style, although entirely done digitally.
Thank-you The Z, you're tip on shadowing yellow hair, worked wonderfully. *hugs ya tightly!*
Duration: Worked on it for 3 days... uh several hours
Software used: Oekaki board 'shi-painter' for first sketch, redone in Open Canvas 1.1.
Hardware: Tiny pain in the ass tablet, very little mouse work
Added effects and text/sig stuff: Photoshop 7
Comments
soltian Says:
This is really beautiful...great job on the coloring and their faces.
annenas Says:
I just love this. The faces look really really nice and the atonomy is awesome too. I love the greyish colours (they add up to the rainy BG) and you're just amazing! I can't love this enough
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nightambre Says:
O.O I got gift art...
I got shikaIno gift art!
And wtf, I inspire people?! When did this happen?
*SQUEES in delight and pounces you and rolls* Love it love it... it's so nice. Thank you thank you! *doesn't get gifty art often*
The Z Says:
This is so precious! And you really have the rainy atmosphere in there. I even like the drops in the extreme foreground. Shika looks like he's trying his damndest to be annoyed at Ino and Ino's pale skin and rosy cheeks really make it look like she was caught in the rain.

I love the droopy tuft
You did a great job all around. Nightie's a lucky girl!
Nicole1725 Says:
You make me want to like this couple haha though I still like Temari and Shikamaru a little beter not sure why maybe I have a thing for manly woman LMAO um anyways I will shut up and talk about the pic because it's just filled with cuteness it just really has a nice mood and feeling nt as bright as the others but it helps the image more that way lol I need to dull down my coloring a bit sometimes it might get the point of the image acrost better
ninjalissy Says:
this is beautiful!! I love Ino's eyes to death *_* and their hair
Tensha Says:
So sweet! They're my favorite couple besides Sakura and Lee
malissa Says:
awe!! their so cute!! i love ino in this pic. she realy looks kinda cool!!
*hug*
Questofdreams Says:
awww..you know, I never thought of Ino and Shikamaru as a couple...ah well..who knows
Beautiful job...now there's an expression you wouldn't expect to see on Shikamaru's face, huh?
Wreeth Says:
Ino is so hot. I greatly desire to touch her when she's not awake.