With Temperance and Felicity

This is a piece I did for a friends daughter who is undergoing her autistic battery tests, something I know that can be nothing short of suck. 8 was a crap year for me (not to the level of Bruce Wayne's 8th year but crap enough).

Her mother, who is a friend of mine from back in High School has been talking to me off and on for the last couple of years but since Felicity's diagnosis we've been speaking more. I thought of how nice it would had been if someone had been around for me showing that being labeled as "strange, stupid, 'special', different or weird" just opens more windows than closes doors.

I was inspired by seeing an image of Belle on Fanpop- as Felicity bonds more with characters in books than actual people, I can relate. Her dress is supposed to be reminiscent of Felicity Merriman from the American Girl series (also the apples. Sure she was on the ROOF in "Felicity Learns a Lesson" but it was the only time in the original series I had read.

Yeah... I know.. the sky is crap. My B24 (sky) kinda exploded right in the middle of the big open part ruining the fade effect I had with lighter colours to fix it I had to just wash the page. You can see in her far arm where it bled into the skin (hadn't coloured that yet, thankfully) but it's also why those lines are so thick.

Lessons learned while working on this: Why I DON'T. DO. BACKGROUNDS... total time: 17 hours. Had it just been the girl with the book? Maybe 8... yeaaaaaaah.

All done on 8.5x11'' X-Press It Blending Card, BIC Mechanical Pencil with Copic SP Multi-Liner sizes .005, .01, .03, .5 and .7 with Multi-Liner in 1.0. Copic Sketch Markers used to colour.