:: pencils, various black pens, PhotoPlus X2 ::

(Hurrah for new PhotoPlus edition But USB mouse broke a while back, so this took a longer time by annoying laptop touchpad!)

Please note - As with all my digital work, something about weird computer-y contrast and brightness and displays means that any work I do on my new computer (similar to old one) goes all kerflooey when I transfer it onto the old home computer (to upload - damn you AOL!). If the colour looks all nasty and saturated, please try to imagine it looking relatively normal. Or I shall cry.

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It feels rather weird to be posting something here, as it's been such a long time! Didn't intentionally mean to start drawing and the such when I did this piece, but got sudden mad inspiration from a flatmate out of the blue. Suddenly forgot entire day's plans and sat at my desk for about 8 hours solid, manically sketching It was very fun and lasted all week. By the time I came out of my room properly after a few days, it was mad and paper and pencils were absolutely EVERYwhere! It's very odd how, when you intentionally sit down and try to create something, it's like it feels a million times harder and frustrating, but when there's random inspiration things work and it's just such a release.
But this was something I wanted to do after looking through the stuff, for a few reasons.

Firstly, congrats to a friend (Sophie) who is now engaged to her really wonderful girlfriend. I shall pretend not to be envious. So that got me in a rather happily romantical mood, particularly as a rather awkward 'friendship' with someone had just ended, so I could stop feeling so crappy and move on with everything.

And secondly, I also dedicate this to many endlessly boring Hellenistic History lectures, without which I would not have had so much day-dreaming-time to dedicate to lovely 'inspirational' fantasies of marrying Keira Knightley.
Thank you, dear lecturer, for being so very, very boring.


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Background is an edited photograph of Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. Apologies if this is copyrighted; I cannot find the original photo. This piece may be updated, if I can be bothered to finish the background. Likelihood is, this shall never happen.

Characters; Rose & Annabelle owned by moi, of course Was much fun to draw Rose without her insane rainbow-hair extensions and hippy tie-dye stuff, and to have Anna wearing something vaguely feminine. It gave me a chance to be very girly!