Matsumura Arika

An Original Character from my writings on FanFiction.net. A waitress who works at a place called Toh's Diner,it's a neighborhood restaurant near the Yamanaka flower shop and a favorite breakfast spot of Ino's parents. Arika first appeared in my story "Konoha Babylon: The Hokage's Request." [link] But chronologically first in "Konoha Babylon: Sakura's Story" in story setting, she also appears briefly in "Konoha Babylon: Stars Double Crossed." She has/had a crush on one of the other 'Naruto regular' (Odds are your first guess will be right)

I drew the line art, then scanned it, printed it and colored it with Copics. Backgound was originally layed out on a piece of tracing paper I drew Arika's outline on. I did a quick inking of that outline then did the vague colored figures by using the copics to trace everything back onto the page. Hey, is that the Yamanaka family off on the left....? How'd they get in here?

Although she does only vaugely appears in this picture with her dad, Inoichi - Yamanaka Ino is a
Naruto character : copyright Kishimoto Masashi