I have seen the Red of the Tatsuya River

...千早ぶる / 神代もきかず / 龍田川
からくれなゐに / 水くくるとは...

...Impassionate gods have never seen
the red that is the Tatsuta River...

I SWEAR I AM NOT CHIHAYAxTAICHI BIAS LOLOLOL !! I know that in my last submission I had clarified that I am not bias to any shipping in the series (except maybe Taichi x Arata ) but I enjoy drawing Taichi and Chihaya together because they make a great couple in terms of aesthetics, don't you agree?

I'll draw up a Arata x Chihaya when I can think of a composition that suits Arata as a man xDD He's too shy of a boy really~ I see him and Chihaya as very much the same almost xDD If you know what I mean :S

I'm not a very good artist when it comes to drawing a side profile so I had to use a few sources to help with how to draw it >n<;; I hope I can keep working on drawing anatomy to get better in the future without using a ref >n<|||

Well anyways, I had drawn this yesterday afternoon, but then my computer decided to fuck me over and closed itself before I could save it >_<;; Cried the whole night and read yaoi to make me feel better :")

So then I decided to redraw the whole thing (felt super nervous D"x) but still upset though because I personally think yesterday's one was much better than this one TAT Hate how an artist can only have one copy of a creation unless you photocopy xDD

Well this was done with Ps so it feel much for relaxing and I felt I had more freedom with it So I it looks tonnes better but I think the outcome really was thanks to the refs I used

Hope you like this and let us keep the KARUTA SPIRIT ALIVEEEEE~ Until 2nd season

Chihayafuru (c) Yuki Suetsugu
Adobe Photoshop CS3
6 hours

References/Sources:
[link] (positioning of the characters)
(insert Soul eater ref link)(side profile view of a female back)
free-background-wallpaper.com (The maple leaves)