I'd like to remind everyone that this is part of my exercise series (my trying to copy or restyle certain artwork that come across. These concepts are not mine but were impressive enough for me to try to study them by copying, just as portrait painters do with their inspirations)

This is, of course, a drawing of everyone's favorite obnoxious ninja, Naruto. My reason: I liked how the lines around his eyes and nose were drawn. It looked like something I could incorporate into my style.

And then some school girl eating an apple, originally drawn by a Japanese artist I found at Tinami some four or so years ago. (I drew her hand much too small here. I wasn't working with a rough skeleton on the early stages. But don't you just love how you can really feel her biting that apple? Well, the original was better, truly. And that was drawn a looooong time ago.)