Well, if we wanted to get technical, Sasuke would really be the "I am full of angst and need overpriced but thoroughly neat looking clothes for emos and teeny-goths with which to cover my body" part of the posterboy image, but Gaara is way more fun to draw. Plus, I can mess around with his hair, unlike senor duck-butt. ...I am well aware Gaara looks like a titless girl in this. But in all fairness, so do most boys who wear this kind of stuff. *loves them* Also! With Gaara, there is no need to draw an expression. And that suits me just fine.

I haven't sat down in Photoshop and just worked for the hell of it in forever. Mind you, I still draw for my own enjoyment 24-7, but haven't been able to scan any of it in and just play for ages. I drew and inked this a day or so ago, and plan to scrap the original because I screwed up so badly on it. I had to glue on an entirely different mouth for starters. Plus, the hair is crappy in that version. I am so very very pleased with this version though. I really DID try to cell shade all of it, but don't have the familiarity with that method to get some of the more subtle effects. But still! So very fun to do, and it only took me about seven hours.

I don't know where his hands and forearms went. We can pretend they've gone on a vision quest.