Happy birthday, Hatchi-chan!

I'm a couple days late getting this posted here to DA.  I had it done and posted to a few other places on his birthday this past Saturday, but forgot about here.

A little something I did for Hatchi's birthday.  This is he and Emi's reunion during the lead-up to Sabaody Archipelago.  With as sweet as he's shown to be, I figure he would have done his best to cheer Emi up when she was forced into Arlong's crew as a child, and he would have been a big brother or father figure to her as she grew up, making them pretty close.  After the events of Cocoyashi Village/Arlong Park, he assumed the worst when she wasn't captured by the marines with the rest of Arlong's crew.  Later when the Straw Hats help save him from Duval and Macro's team, he's very relieved to see she's alive, and surprised to find her a member of the Straw Hats, considering her role in Nami's troubles over the years.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  Messed up a couple spots a little when trying to ink this, and there's my usual lack of skills issues, but overall not bad.  I was going to color this before posting it for his birthday, but decided to wait until I can afford a larger set of colored pencils.  I don't have enough different shades of pink and don't have the skills to try and make the colors I need via coloring techniques yet.