A place...

First thing first: I'm so sorry If I drew your character ugly and/or out of character D: I really gave my best and I hope you'll like it x"D
Second of all: I'm sorry if your character looks shorter/taller than they should be, I tried to make everyone's face as visible as possible qwq
Third of all: It doesn't look like I envisioned it but I'm pretty satisfied with this too XD

Now to explain. Truth to be told the picture itself doesn't express my own feelings towards Torogakure. But what I tried to do is to express my feelings through Kiryuu Utaro I'm so sorry ... As you can probably notice I did draw people that both Utaro and Kiryuu interacted with, but the way people and clans are actually placed on the picture SLIGHTLY represents the closeness of those people to Kiryuu (there are some that are misplaced so that they could stay with their clans). Another truth is that some people that are on the picture have only met Utaro, but regardless of that I wanted to put them on the picture as they had an important/interesting bond with him regardless if it's Kiryuu's picture of some sorts. Also some characters I placed because I just simply love them. I wanted to put more characters but I really didn't have the time TwT

What Torogakure means to me:
Torogakure for me is a place, place for many things. You might be confused right now but let me explain...

A place to learn and improve:
I'll start of by saying that I followed Torogakure since the moment it opened, but I was too shy and scared to join back then and I honestly regret it. So the first lesson I learned from joinin Torogakure is never to miss opportunities because of my overthinking or shyness.
Next thing is language. I thought my English to be good before I joined, but honestly I feel like improved in terms of my language skills so much since the day I joined. I am a person that struggles with expressing myself so the people understand me the way I want them to. I have those problems even in my native language. I'm a quiet person and I don't talk all that much throughout the day so maybe that's the reason why I suck at expressing myself. And yeah I did get in trouble because of that quite a few times but thanks to kind people like Lindsey whom explained to me differences and actual meanings of something that I typed - and most of all, didn't judge me for my mistakes, I now know about the language. Thank you very much for your help and thank you so much for dealing with my mistakes so kindly.
Let's not forget my improvement in drawing of course. In a couple of days I'll be celebrating my first year spent in Torogakure and when I look back at my oldest and newest drawing I can see quite a difference! Torogakure always keeps me drawing, and I am very thankful for that as before I had periods that could last 3 or more months where I haven't touched my tablet.

A place to relax and calm down:
Recently I've been dealing with a lot of stress, panic attacks and overthinking. I was in such a bad state that I didn't want to leave my bed, finish my work, or even come online. As I realized that my state is getting worse and worse by day I decided to force myself to change something even though I still don't know what is causing my stress and I hope I'll soon find out. But what I recently noticed is that when I come online, and I open my discord and see messages from people it makes me feel much calmer, it shifts my thoughts from bad to better and makes me forget my worries for couple of hours. Having that said, I am thankful to every person who is so kind to me, messages me and/or doesn't mind me spamming them with messages. I love talking to you guys, every one of you, and I want you to know that your messages put a smile on my face.

A place to call your other home:
Last paragraph brings me to my last point. It is truth that interactions with people aren't always perfect. Which is totally understandable - it is a social community after all - we can't all agree and we can't always be in a good mood or whatever. It is also truth that there were fights, and fights always happen. But what is important is that we go pass them and make up. I've met so many kind and wonderful people and It would take me quite a lot of time to name all of them here, but anyways, I have to say that I'm glad I met them. I am glad that they accepted me the way I am, and more importantly that they even gave my awkward, paranoid, and probably painly unfunny self a chance. Thank you for all your time you spent on talking to me, even though I probably won't meet any of you in person, I'm still glad to call you my friends.

I applaud to everyone who read through my bullshit here x"D I hope it makes sense really, and I hope you like the picture.
I wish every other participant good luck in the contest all entries so far are very cool!
Once again thank you guys! I am looking forward to future time spending with you in the group x3

Kayo © NaruBuki
Aosa © Taminki
Isao © kii-wi
Chihei © Viisuru
Inabikari © GreenFrogSina
Akimitsu © varrebeest
Kaname © Jaz-Saxx
Hojo © HiddenLanternVillage
Jurou © HiddenLanternVillage
Tsurugi © StrawberriOnTop
Saori © Zyea
Hiyori © Tofuufufu
Kaoru © PenelopeJadewing
Hanabi ©SuzakuTrip
Akane © patty-batty
Ryoko © nyahsart
Yuuta © SweatLoveBeer
Yoshi © ShadowHachia
Hinoiri © kii-wi
Isuru © HaileySRSLY
Takumi © luluopp
Jinta © GreenFrogSina
Kasumi © pumpkincookie
Ame © SoulOfPersephone
Nanase © TheArtofAytch
Harusaki Viisuru
Eita © SublimeSalt
Chizuru © NaruBuki
Kaibun ©GreenFrogSina
Ryota © NissaNii
Suzu © NissaNii
Yukito © TraceofHatred
Anri © Taminki
Suguro © Fouffey
Kagura © pumpkincookie
Aya © SuzakuTrip
Souta © Jinxaroni
Onomi © kii-wi
Tamafune © suruatonin

Kiryuu, Sumire, Utaro and art © XxYorunoHimexX