I'm so happy. I got 4 new pics up in one day. Ok, 2 of them are just colored versions of old ones, but that counts. Please, tell me what you think of them. My ninja team is complete!

Here is the bio for Akane Morihea. I did it a few weeks ago, but never posted it up. Eventually Yoshi will also have one long like this

Name: Morihea(Forest Hair) Akane(Brilliant Red)

Village: Konoha

Hair Color: Bright Red

Eyes: Blue

Clothes: She likes to wear blue jeans, and a Yellow sleeve less top. She wears her Konoha head band on her right thigh so it doesn't get in the way of her hair.

Personality: She has an in your face attitude, similar to Anko. She is not afraid to voice her opinion to anyone. She is not too hyper, but can be very active.

Past: She is a 15 year old Chuuin. She Graduated the Academy a little after Naruto went to train with Jiriaiya. She has 2 other teammates, one that is a summoning expert and one that mixes taijutsu and wind to attack, and their team leader is Anko. They have been on quite a few B rank missions and a few A rank missions, and are considered one of the top Chuuin teams out there. Her Family has only been in the village for about 10 years, so they are one of the newer families. Because of this, her parents are not aloud to join the ninja in the town for security reasons, but Akane is able too because of her age when she moved here. Akane is the first in her Family to attend the Academy and become a chuunin in Konoha. Her Parents Run a hair salon, but are themselves trained Ninja, and will help out the village when the help is needed, like when the sound and sand attacked.

The Morihea's hair salon is very popular in Konoha. They have the best hair products around and something for any type of hair. They have shampoo that gets the chakra to flow thru the hair to give it a great shine and texture. They can design any hair style. They even have a hair re-growth formula for people who become bald or female ninjas whose hair gets destroyed in missions. Ino goes to this salon at least once a week. She even has a tab there.

Catchphrase: She thinks catchphrases are stupid, because one of her teammates uses one.

Ninja Techniques: Her Family's jutsu is the control of their hair. She can grow and shrink her hair to any size she wants. Akane can use it to stab, cut, throw, strangle, and capture foes. She can also use it to fully protect herself from the enemies attacks. She can also use her hair to make a replica of herself. The replicate and the real one can stay connected by there hair, or can separate, depending on the situation.

She is able to shoot individual hairs out as needles barely seen by the naked eye with deadly accuracy. This is good for silent kills. She can also slight enemies throats quietly with her hair. Her hair is very hard to cut with normal weapons. And is very, very quite when she wants it to be. She can even move unconscious or dead people like puppets with her hair. She doesn't use this skill much because she's not very skilled in this area, but its good for tricking guards for a few minutes so one of her teammates can take care of them.

One of her teammates is a Summon expert, and his family has most of the blood contract scrolls in their shop. Because of this connection, Akane was able to make a contract with an animal. She chose the Hedgehog. The hedgehog's she summons vary in size, from regular sized ones to giant ones. Their main form of attack is rolling into a ball and squashing and impaling their foes. Akane is able to throw the small ones with her hair, so they basically become living shurikens. She is able to summon 5 small hedgehogs at once for this skill.

Her hair also still works even after cut. If the team is on a secret mission, and they have to hid bodies, Akane can wrap her hair around the body, put some chakra into the hair, and the cut it. The hair then acts like a camouflage, blending in perfectly with the surroundings. The effect last for 12 hours, plenty of time to complete the mission and leave without any bodies being discovered.

She is not skilled in this area, but she can do some healing of herself and her teammates, using her hair as a medium for the charka to increase the results. She's not able to do it as well as Tsunade or Sakura, but she can heal some minor wound, but it uses up a lot of charka, so she only uses it when necessary.

She can also use a fire jutsu to set her hair on fire. She isn't good at fire jutsu, so she has her teammates use a Fire jutsu or use the toad summon to set her hair on fire. It doesn't damage the hair or herself for awhile. She is then able to whip her hair around like a fire whip to scorch the foes. She can also still use any of her other hair jutsu's while the hair is on fire, thus adding damage to her attacks. She cannot keep her hair on fire for long though, because after awhile it will start to damage Akane. She doesn't fully enjoy the move because it leaves her hair all burnt looking, and also effects her hair strength till she washes it out. But she will do it because she knows it is very effective.

Her ultimate move is that she slams her hair into the ground, and it explodes out many places and skewers the foe. It's a very difficult move to dodge. Her ultimate move is not at it's full strength, but when it is, it will make it look like a forest of hair reaching to the skies. Right now she can only get the hair to go up 7 feet and has an area of 20 feet around her. It is still very effective, but she is trying to make it more powerful.

Akane wishes to become a top ranking Juunin like Anko and have her own team one day. She doesn't really want to become a hair stylist like her parents, but she still is learning the trade, and helps out her parents. She uses those practices on herself a lot, and also on Anko, who a first was not too fond of the idea. She also wants to increase her medical jutsu skills, because she knows how important healing is in the middle of a mission.

Don't ask her to cook though. She is VERY bad at it. Almost killed her teammates the first time she cooked for them.

Hope you liked it

In other news, I found the model pic for the the last team mate, who's first name I have only, Ken. I have a good back story for him too. Not sure when will the pic be up, but maybe in a week or so.

I got the Chibi book and the Bushojin pretty girls book, but not female charecters. So, untill I get female chearecters, I don't think I can effectivly use the info in pretty girls. So... I get to draw CHIBIS!!!!!! *does the happy dance*

Yes, I have always wanted tp draw chibi's, and now I can I might work on one tommorow. So maybe you will see chibi Zandra soon And this will help me work on my eyes.

And thanx to Rockmeagman and camsmimi for the book suggestions

Well, now that I have posted quite a few pics of my own, I feel that it is time to get some books on how to help me draw better.

I have been thinking about getting one or two for a few years now, but never did. Now that I can see what I need to improve, I should get some.

I think the most important thing I should improve is how to draw female bodies in Anime/manga form so I don't have to look for modles to trace. The one pic I didn't  use a model, "Happy Zandra" came out very well in terms of some of my past works, but it seems no one else thinks that. One 1 view, and I know that that was from my cousin.

SO I know I must learn, but what books are good for this? If you have any favorites, let me know. I heard one is very good, but can't recal the name this second.

I hope to try and get it this weekend, so I hope you guys have some suggestions

With my recent subbmisions, I feel it is nessisary to say how I go about makeing my drawings.

First off, let me state that none of these drawings would have been possible without the help of He was the one that first draw Zandra for me, and without that I feel I wouldn't have gotten this far, or it would have turned out completely different.

You see, I have a real hard time expressing whats in my head exactly how I want to, weather by voice or hand., I am better at explaining my ideas to another person verbally, then writeing it out mysrlf, but only just alittle. So I had my vision of Zandra in my head, but drawing it myself, and haveing it look like I saw it in my head, is very very tough. So I asked Dillo64 to draw her. I told him exactly how I saw her, and he draw it out. He even added a few deatails helself that made her look better. He has since done one more pic of her for me. And I had someone over a summer program draw the human for of her, but he didn't finish befor the end, so I just kept what he had

A year and an basic art class later, I was ready to draw them myself. I tried without looking at the pics, but they sucked. So then I traced most of the pics, and then did alittle myself, and it worked great, as you can see. So now I am trying to draw origanal pics of Zandra myself. Right now I'm going to stick to the human form because its easier to draw. No wings

But I cannot just draw something out of the blue. I can think up what I want to draw myself, but I need a modle to base it on. So I decided that I should look for poses that fit what I was thinking of, and use them as a reference during the drawing.

My first example of this was this pic [link] . I have thought up of this sinario since I first thought up of Zandra a year ago. I had the basic look of it in my head, but I needed something outside of my head to look at when drawing it. Thats where this pic came in [link] . This pose fit with what I was going for, except Zandra wasn't going to be flashing people intentialy. So I took the basic model of this pic, minus the hair, face, and skirt, and traced it lightly. Then I draw in the face, and the panties, and the scroll in her hand. after that I experimented for the right look of her hair and skirt untill it was perfect, on a seperate peice of paper. Then I drew them in, scanned it, and posted it.

And thats how I draw my pics. Even though I need a model to trace/look at for the basic design, the way the pic will turn out and look came before looking for the model. I need to draw this way, its the only way I can get my vision out. One day, I might not need any models, but I doubt it.