Hello everyone. This is my contest entry for 's contest "School's-Spring-Time-Splurge" which is, of course, school theme!
For my entry, who could carry this theme out more effectively than my own OCs from my doujinshi manga series "Chalk Dust"?
In this picture, Ayumi has a little get together with almost every main character after school in front of the school.
I can imagine someone from lawn care services yelling at Sei-Sei, Chris, and Nana to "GET OFF THE LAWN!!!"

There are a few things about this picture I'd like to explain.
1. The original sketch took me 11 hours trying to get everything to look AT LEAST nice D: (the original drafts were HORRIBLE) I wanted this picture to reflect on the fact that Chalk Dust was originally a slap-stick comedy (the story arc just gets darker and darker in this new version I'm working on :/).
2. I'm actually a little giddy in my stomach to see the entire main cast of my continuing doujinshi-manga series in full colour! The closest I've gotten was here: [link]
And I know this is going to sound COMPLETELY ridiculous, but if you look at the front cover compared to this picture, it's kind of like...I don't know, looking from the manga to an anime rendition kind of
3. Other than the fact that it's already on a personal level with my entire main cast in full colour together, the background image of their (so-far) nameless school is actually a photograph of the main entrance to the Administration building at Navarro College (the college I attend) named "Albritton Building". So, it's even more personal. ...I know it's dumb, but I thought it'd be kind of nifty to mix anime with the real world

Well, that's basically all there is to it. For the readers of my manga, you may see a face you recognize thrown in the main cast, and I'm sorry if that confused you, but yes, she is a main character later in the series (like after chapter 2). And as for the little boy...well...you're just going to have to continue reading and find out about him ^^.

My Chalk Dust doujinshi can be found here: [link]

Special thanks in alteration of Chris's costume design goes to !!
All characters - Chalk Dust (c) Jonathan Castleman/チヨックダースト　（c）　カスルマンジョナサン