I REALLY couldn't resist. I mean...it's HIS year.
The idea is partially *Kurokiba's
So, uh, he's all dressed in Chinese clothes, and doing one of his "I'm so awesome" pose things. And Kagome was braiding his hair, but he was impatient so he's run off before she was done, I guess. And, there's fire.

I could be wrong, but the webpage I link to below lead me to believe that the figures on Inuyasha's shirt say "Fire" and "Dog." Repeating that and bending them with the fabric was arguably the hardest/most tedious aspect of this illustration.

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CRAP. I forgot to write down the dedication at first.
This is for Because she's awesome, and she deserves it. I've been meaning to dedicate something to her for a while now, I just wasn't sure what to dedicate, lol. After finishing this, and reflecting, I figured this would be good. If it weren't for her, thousands of non-dub fans would have no idea what was going on for more than the last year. She puts a lot of work into supplying many people with our "fix." And she's such a sweety, too. ^o^ (Also, she was the first to do the Inuyasha year of the dog thing, as far as I know.) Here's to another awesome year, with the help of Kuro!