Fruits Basket Friendship

Something I've been working on for a while, some of you actually caught me drawing it in my LiveStream last month..
Anyway. This was my entry for a local manga fanart contest held by Sangatsu Manga - a manga publisher here in Finland. It got a honorable mention (and I got plenty of manga books as a prize)

This is also a gift for my sister who really loves Fruits Basket. I like it very much myself, but my sister is totally crazy about it (she owns the whole series as manga and as DVDs)
A long time ago I promised her that I would draw a picture of a character from Fruits Basket for her. So I asked who was her favourite. But she couldn't decide, since she loves them all!
So after I heard that Sangatsu Manga was holding an art contest, and the drawing had to be based on one of the series they have released in Finland (Fruits Basket happens to be one), with the theme "Friendship", I decided to draw this picture. My sister gets a drawing of all of her favourite characters!!! xD
I don't think I've ever drawn as many characters (at least not human characters) in a single picture, there are 17 of them in this one..! I really had to push my limits! Besides, I've NEVER drawn any of these characters before! >_<
Yeah, there are lots of flaws, I had no time to fix them before the deadline of the contest, and now I'm just too tired to bother... But for the most part I'm very happy with the outcome
I hope you like it as well ^^

Done with Gimp as always
Fruits Basket © Natsuki Takaya