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So this Ask isn’t really up my alley in any capacity, as you might have guessed. Beyond my normal issues with the Naruto franchise, I’m just not that interested in underwear? So this one was pretty boring to work on, but I know there are folks out there who do not feel that way. My hope is this will do something for those of you who like these characters and enjoy underwear. ^_^; It’s been a long time since I watched any of Naruto, but I tried to get what I could remember of their personalities across in the answer. Honestly, the writing part is the hardest part of these “ogle” Asks (to borrow Naruto’s description of them). It’s easy enough to just draw the character (naked or otherwise) standing around to be ogled, but there’s only so much I can do with the answer portion. I do feel like they need to say something, but just saying “Okay!” or “Like this?” or whatever isn’t super interesting. Once I started writing Naruto, though, he didn’t seem to want to shut up, so I ended up with a bit wordier of a response than I’d originally intended (though far from the wordiest).
I had a bit of trouble with this Ask, not just because of Naruto’s presence (I’ll get into why he’s there in a bit), but also because I’ve had some recent troubles that have soured my opinion on Luffy. I had a lot of emotional difficulty getting through this, but I’d already settled on the idea and wanted to get it out.
So I knew the visual I wanted for this one almost immediately. Goku and Luffy double teaming a boy from some other series was obvious, and Naruto seemed fitting. On top of my continuing effort to ease my way back into being able to draw characters from his series comfortably, I think he’s appropriate in a sort of Jump Force reunion sort of way. Hopefully fans of these series (or even one or two of these series) will enjoy seeing these three main characters paired up like this. The difficult part was figuring out what I’d have them say, since there’s not much to talk about here…. hence them basically saying nothing. Oops.
This is a commission I wrapped up recently, part of the “fire sale” I did to raise money for a friend in need. I don’t usually take Naruto commissions, due to personal issues, but I made an exception in this case since I needed to raise as much money as I could. The client for this one was super easy to work with, too, which helped.
Recently on my site there was a lot of commotion pushing to get Sarada Uchiha the NHML spot. I don’t know if it was one person or several people reacting to each other (the IP addresses would suggest the latter), but either way I hope those who were wanting to see her will like this pic. Depending on the reactions this one gets when it goes public, I might consider revisiting this character again some day.
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I don’t usually accept Naruto commissions, due to a bad experience when I was younger and more desperate to get commissions, but I made an exception this time around for one of the blog’s regular commenter who’s been wanting to commission something for a while. Don’t expect there to be much more Naruto around here, though, the aforementioned bad experience has ingrained an automatic distaste in me for the series and its characters. Even though I get along well with the client who commissioned this pic, working on it did remind me why I typically avoid Naruto like the plague.
That being said, it was fun to try out a new angle on the old spitroast position. It inspired me to push for a similar angle of the same pose in the Space Warped script, so if you see a panel similar to this image there, that’s why. I hope those of you who haven’t had Naruto ruined for you forever like I have can enjoy this pic; I know I’ve gotten requests for Naruto yaoi in the past, and chances are this is all of it I’ll ever do. 🙂