'ATributeToALifeline'-4Xaotl

I know this wasn't the next thing on my "to-do list", wasn't really on the list at all, but it was something I just...had to do.

I started this last night after signing off from the internet...I just wasn't entirely tired yet and so I blocked in where the characters were to go and started work on framing them in, and sketching the portrait roughly. I've since worked on it on and off the rest of the day that I had free and JUST literally finished it up...to a point I kinda like. Yeah, it's not cleaned up but part of me doesn't have the heart to start erasing all my underlying pencil. Heh.

Anyways, this is a tribute. To Heather ( *xaotl ) for being such a lifesaver to me lately. God, I honestly don't know what I'd have done without you hun. And yeah...sappy me starts crying as I type it heh. but it's the truth. She's stuck with me through all the mayhem lately and been an absolute godsend. With funny words and kind words, encouragement and distractions, a shoulder to lean on and cry on....you've just been worth so much more than words could ever say. I mean it. If I've been your "sanity in a little digital box" then by God, so have you been mine! I luv ya hun!

And if any of you who watch me or see this for some odd arse reason DON'T watch Xaotl, then my word, go check her gallery out! You haven't the slightest what you're missing! My "versions" of some of her characters here don't even give the half of it. She's got amazingly gorgeous male characters and female characters, a truly incredible style, and just talent galore. And she's one of the nicest people on here too that I've met. Really, you just need to go give her love ^^

Shand, Robert Pendryg, Harlequin, & Mack (characters) © Heather Whidden
image © me, Val Barry