"Her body shivered from the cold.
The gaping wound marred her once flawless skin.
She was alone in a sea of people different from herself.
And she would never again set foot on her native land...

He held her close to share his heat.
His cloak was spread over the cause of her pain.
He nuzzled her face to let her know that he was right beside her.
Never had she felt more at home in his arms.

Basked in his loving embrace, she passed on.

And she kept smiling."

Artist's notes:
Err... no, I wasn't trying to create some sort of poetry there.

Anyway, this fanart is for an individual named Rose. She e-mailed me at my Lycos account asking if I could draw more angsty pics aside from my Anguish one. Although I don't normally take requests, I feel so guilty for not answering her because I rarely check my Lycos mail nowadays, so I wasn't able to see her message until a few weeks ago (I try to make it a point to reply to messages sent to me whenever I can).

So, Rose, I hope you like it!

On to the coloring. As all of you may have noticed, I've never colored this way before until now (thus the "color experiment" I was talking about at my status journal). This took me forever and a day!! And I'm pretty sure I got the anatomy wrong, too. Plus, I've said it once and I'm saying it again, I hate drawing backgrounds! All I could do was hope that my random scribbling and smudging had made it look like there's a brick wall out there. I suppose it worked out a little. But the background seems so... blank and boring.

I certainly need more practice in this kind of coloring. And that takes a lot of time and patience that I don't have most of the time. So I will now bask with this particular piece (it's not perfect, but at least I tried!), in hopes that someday I'll be able to do something better. Whenever that someday may be.

Now. Back I go to my casual-yet-easier-to-do shading!

Oh, could someone please tell me if I should mark this thing as mature? Thanks!


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