Painting the Nightmare

This took ages to draw and colour by hand -shock- ...then I had to scan it in two bits because my scanner is half the size of the paper, so you can probably see my effort to disguise the offending line that has resulted from trying to put them together again...you can't see it on the thumbnail... :S

Anyway, I thought I would have a go at drawing Ninetails, my favourite boss fight in the game, after Orochi, and because I was drawing from memory, the pattern on it's mask won't be perfect, though i hope you like it!!
By the way, the writing on the brush is my name in Japanese (or at least it should be, if the online translators work...)

(yay, first Ninetails fanart! :3)