Child with a Balloon

I've been working on a long, long, long project, as well as a slightly complicated but equally difficult project, and after a few weeks, I decided to take a break and just do something simple. But it's connected to the latter project, so it's not like I'm wasting my time or anything.

Our little girl here is from a short story. Not the literary short story, so to speak, but it's a story that's short. I'm dividing it into parts. How many, I don't know, but quite a few, I believe. Most of this little girl's story is a big reveal, so I won't have much to say about her. Nope, not even her name. But I won't keep tight-lipped about her all the way, 'cause that'd be boring of me.

This young girl from the early 40s resides in East Tennessee. She's innocent enough, but despite being relatively well off, she has bad grammar usage skills. And it shows when she talks; you can tell she's trying to break the habit, 'cause she often corrects herself, i.e. "I didn't do nothing. I mean anything." But when she's angry or frustrated, she doesn't monitor herself as faithfully, and her poor grammar slips through the cracks.

This Tennessean also would like to present herself as a debutant, but her scruffy personality (and sometimes appearance) stands quite firmly in the way of that. Last but not least of what I'm going to tell you, our young girl is tenacious, bright, and hardy.

Hopefully, you've enjoyed this less than weighty explanation of this character, and even more hopefully, you'll enjoy the upcoming story.

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Later.

Protecting Fuzen

Here we have a new picture finally. Sheldon protecting little Fuzen from the ever sadistic Flyin Psi. I actually imagined this picture with only Sheldon and Flyin and with both of them being against a completely white background. But as I drew more, I thought, "Hey, what would it look like if I added Fuzen?" I liked him there, so I added color once I scanned it. After some deliberation, I decided the white wouldn't cut it, and I revisited a photo editing/drawing site someone put me to: Sumo Art. After playing with it for about an hour, I made the flooring you see here, only I changed the color in my preferred photo editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements. With some Hard Light, some leaves on the wall, and lots of work to make sure the chibis interact with their surroundings, we have today's product.

The idea behind the pink crystal light things on the ground is that Sheldon and Fuzen are in Flyin's domain, therefore in her power. Plus, it also let me play with lights and find ways to tie the characters into the landscape.

Fuzen and Sheldon are pretty good friends (not in continuity with their own stories). While their relationship has many levels, they typically take on a big brother-little brother way of treating each other. Flyin, on the other hand, does not get along with Fuzen and Sheldon at all. Sheldon because he's an easy target as he's emotionally (and often physically) vulnerable, and because she doesn't like his "girly tendencies" such as large capacity for compassion, sort of low competitive drive, and soft-spoken nature. Fuzen because of his small size and childishness. While Fuzen is not easily scared by many things, Flyin can easily find a way to scare him. But though Sheldon is more easily frightened than Fuzen, he would try to keep any kid safe, especially one he cares about like Fuzen, even though he could suffer consequences. Despite that, you can still see a bit of apprehension in his face. I may draw a normal picture of them like this. You know, un-chibied.

I hope you liked the picture and the text that went along with it.

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Later.