Howdy y’all,

After watching, then reading, Fruits Basket I just had to make up my own Zodiac of people! Even though the Rat is technically the first animal on the Chinese Zodiac, I decided since the majority of my friends were born in the year of the Rabbit, I would do the Rabbit first.

To create this character, I first went onto a whole bunch of sites explaining (supposedly) what a person’s characteristics would be being born in that specific year. I didn’t take these to heart but I couldn’t resist looking at the year of the Dragon!

After having decided on the personality, I went onto designing their hair. Hair, to me, makes a manga/anime person recognisable. If everyone had the same hair but different clothes, I’m pretty sure I would have a hard time identifying who was who.
So after choosing the hairstyle and colour, I made a wardrobe of clothes that would suit the characteristics of my gijinka. I went onto the internet to look up real life clothes (as opposed to drawn clothes)  to give me an idea of how to draw them. For the Rabbit, I gave him overalls (the fashionable ones, not the working ones) and a bucket hat. I just looove bucket hats. They’re sooo cute!

Anyway, after being tortured by me explaining the drawing process, without further ado here is my Rabbit. The Fruits Basket equivalent is Momiji (the cute half German-half Japanese blonde below). Guess how old he is!

I really need to come up with a name for my Rabbit…