THIS. IS. KONOHA.

There's apparently some sneaky way to get dA to let you put exclamation marks in titles, but I don't know how to do it. So the title of this should really be:

THIS! IS! KONOHA!!

I tried really hard to capture the style of the Naruto manga, and Leonidas' iconic face too. This is almost 100% traditionally done: I only thickened up the lines around Sarutobi's figure and the jutsu clouds on the computer. Shading the leaves took as long as the entire rest of the picture, I feel sorry for Masashi Kishimoto's assistants! They must see trees in their dreams.

The original drawing is A3 sized, and took me about 2 afternoons to finish.


Naruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto

_{(the almost obligatory LK quote) Iruka: ...only it's funny because it's not 300!}