Kodomo no Omocha ("Child's Toy") has to be one of my favorite animes. It's amazingly funny, even verging on utterly riduculous, and still manages to shove in those fuzzy shojo elements. I re-watched all the episodes we own just recently and felt like drawing some sort of fanart, which is pretty strange for me. Since I'm so used to drawing DBZ fanart, it generally takes me a fair while to switch between styles, so to get the quality of my fanart up to a good enough level to draw this I ended up doing a bunch of sketches... and then to make it even harder on myself I wanted to do a pic of Hayama and Sana five years on (They're usually 11-12 years old). There's also two character sketches I did as an intermediate stage here. Aging characters is a lot of work, but it's good practise (and young males + time = bishonen!).

Like the graphitti? I just had to put a Babbit in there somewhere, but it looked really out of place when I tried drawing one in the foreground. I used a sketchy airbrush for the graphitti, and a blurred sandstone texture for the bricks and ground, though I don't really like the effect (probably should have left it plain). Still, I'm really glad I spent all that time on the pic, it turned out well.