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Intermediate Result, however it's done for now. If I feel like doing so I'm going to do some fine-tuning.
Original data is 2000x1200.

First Panel

Second Panel

So far I'm still concerned with coloring that Minato image, however here's a first waypoint.


Having a guy like this as a leader, with such a great smile! We germans got Angela Merkel right now...

Random thought of the moment: Gotta make an image based on Itachi's Theme/Senya. Will show Itachi standing in the rain and gazing into the distance, maybe mouth slightly opened.
Maybe I should, very slighty, include a hint on Sasuke because Itachi would think about him in such a moment. Sadly, Sasuke doesn't have a fix symbol imo which could be decently placed to remind of him. So the only possibility of using such an allusion might be to place him somewhere in the picture, maybe into clouds. Very lucent, in a way that he would be hard to recognize on the first view. Maybe even to an extent that it takes serious focus to see him, but in the internet nobody would find it then
I mean this kind of lucent shadow that makes one thinking "wait, did I just see Sasuke there?" on the first view, this kind of noticing his presence without really seeing him for half a second.
If you actually read this, you might know why so few of my ideas become reality. Lots of ideas, instantly an inner vision of how everything should look like.
Then, the thought "Ok, now I need a forest as a background, clouds, rain, hours of editing Itachi into the right pose including learning how to draw him myself to make it truly suitable, a shadow of Sasuke."
Done half heartedly and the result will only look like trash, great.
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of work to me. My Shikamaru genes are giving me the alarm already.
As I expected of myself I cannot finish anything before starting something else, so I searched and found the Itachi shot, here in the version almost ready to be colorized:
(I think not even Kishimoto was sure if we see his Sharingan or not, the original looks like half-sharingan )
I saw that some ppl at some forums were looking for the outlines, so if anyone here wants them as well you can get the PS data if you want. Sadly I screwed up and made them only in 800x800.


Gonna be away for today so I can't even spend a minute on it today, so I thought I might just as well post the current state.


Nowhere near done, but the approximately aimed style is roughly visible. I'm gonna stick to the anime style more or less, I don't want one of those results that look so far from the original style.
Also still has some other flaws like a slight white shiloutte on the outline layer, gonna remove that later when I fit it in with a real background.

At least I can tell that it's very enjoyable working with that shot <3

Edit: At least it's raining already, no I'm gonna search for a shot suitable to become a background one day. Kinda feel like Itachi right now for two reasons: Lost todays match in a Starcraft 2 league 0:2 and the friggin autumn makes my felt body temperature dropping by 3°C each time I look out of the window. So yeah, it's the shot of the moment for me, although I'm certain I'm gonna have to redo the rain anyways once the background is starting to take shape


First I thought that it would be best to show Itachi down to the waist and some ground in the foreground, with forest taking roughly 1/3 of the image height beeing way in the background. But this would mean I had to add so much of Itachi to this shot, fitting in the perspective etc. So I guess I'll just show the top of the trees in the lower backgrounds and some rainy clouds at the top.
I thought about lightning but that doesn't suit Itachi. He's way too calm for lightning. It will only rain.
(He really isn't the snowy type either. He's the rain man.)


With the clouds I'm lucky to have some years-old brush preset saved. Now I'm looking for a line of treetops. What a task, come on
I'ld love to find a suitable one in the anime or manga because I'm too bad to draw one myself. And I'm sure to have seen a whole bunch of forest tops over the course of soon 400 anime episodes and more than 500 manga chapters. Just how to find it? It's not exactly the remarkable thing that appears in the storyline and stays in memory because it's so cool, it's a bunch of treetops

This guy:

This guy:

(for anyone thinking of this word in the english way it would sound funny as well, because the english "i" is pronounced like "ei" in german... german "i" is rather like the english "e" in the alphabet, just with less emphasis especially when it's standing before "sch" which is like the english "sh". And german "g" is always like english g in "google", but never like a "j")
So in english pronounciation that word would be like "Gesht", a little bit at least.

This guy:

This guy: