Ronin Warriors- 'Love, Ryo'

Woot! Back in my Ronin Warriors mood and feeling great!

I've been DYING to CG this picture for days. Ever since my dad
got a new iMac and gave me the old one (which is still good), I
haven't been able to access the scanner because we were moving
everything from one side of the computer room to the other. So
obviously, I couldn't update immediately...until NOW. I plugged in
everything including the scanner, so I'm back again!!!

Anyway....

this picture is based off an official one I found. But here's the deal-
in the original picture, there were photographs of all 5 guys, and
all of them looked SMALL. But the one of Ryo that I saw looked so
cute that I expanded that one part of the picture, sketched what I
saw using a little grid technique I learned last year in art class, then
scanned it in, outlined it (to the best of my ability) , colored,
shaded, and made a simple background that made the overall product
look REALLY GOOD. (Again, I'm proud with what I can do as of now....so
don't bring me down because I have a couple of flaws. K??)

Originally, Ryo's face looked a bit strange. One of his eyes looked far
lower than the other one and he looked pretty cocky, to be honest. But
part of me really wanted to try re-drawing this, and I did- and now
Ryo has a cuter expression in his photo. So there. SQUEE!!!!

...I should have done the same thing with Sage's picture. Maybe next time.

RYO....