Lightning in Fairy Tail

With LightningStrike83's arrival in Earth Land, Fairy Tail decides to celebrate. Erza finally gets to have a perfect picnic on this peaceful day. Well, almost peaceful.

Main entry for LightningStrike83's LIGHTNING IN FAIRY TAIL LAND CONTEST!!!
Results are here (this entry got second place in the main category!)

Fairy Tail characters (c) Mashima Hiro
Artwork (c) empire539


Trivia time!

1. I tried to get most people's favorite foods in somehow, if that information was known. However, Happy won't be happy if he's looking in the wrong place! Where should he be looking?

2. Who's the guy next to Mavis? (Easy one for manga readers)

3. Guess where Wendy's outfit is from!

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A/N: WHEW, FINALLY DONE. This is probably by far the most complex and detailed piece I've ever done for a contest. I usually stick to maybe one or two characters at most, but this one has quite a few more. The poses were super difficult to draw, so it was a nice little test to try and apply what I'd been practicing. But omg, don't even get me started on hands and feet (or their proportions/perspective). And I don't think I'll be drawing grass anytime soon.

I ended up mixing styles again (orz), when I was shading clothes I was like lalala ihavenoideawatimdoing. Gotta work on proportions too when it's from a weird angle. But anyway, this was a really fun thing to work on, and I enjoyed it.

Tools: Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop, tablet
Time: WAY TOO LONG... I seriously need to get faster... According to my logbook, total time spent on this entry was 80 hours, 34 minutes across 20 days, including conceptual planning time. Yikes! Now if only I could spend that much time studying...

Critiques are welcome!