Year
2006

Media
opencanvas

Comments
First Impasse, the title of this piece, is my most "famous" SasuSaku, if not overall fanart, yet. Done for the challenge at the SasuSaku forum Simply Love, I had the honor of winning the fanart category. Copy-paste comment from my deviantART:

This was done for Simply Love's (a SasuSaku forum I'm in) first contest which came at a baaad time for me. Hence the sketchiness and rush job coloring. I don't remember how long it took me, since I probably worked on it about 5-15 minutes at a given time for the last weeks, but according to openCanvas's event file, the total production time is a little over 2 hours (man, that sure didn't felt like 2 hours).

The original one was titled "First Suicide" which is just me wanting some star-crossed SasuSaku angst XD XD XD Too angsty, I decided, so this is the "happier one" (same position, but replace their kunai with katanas, you'll know what I mean). It's also been quite a while since I drew this amount of blood and gaping wounds in color, hopefully I haven't lost my touch yet, lol XD XD XD

Here's a face detail: I must admit, my favorite part is how I drew the blood down Sakura's face.

And here's a higher res version: I just noticed I missed some spots in coloring. Hm...

BONUS!: What if I had originally gone with my first version? Witec had nicely answered this question for me. Thank you!