Zophia poked me to make a thread. I know this will die off quickly, but I guess I could just show off some work in progress, and what I have managed to do by combining MsPaint and GIMP.
The first one is the outline. It is done in MsPaint, since GIMP was acting up.
The next two is the coloured result, both coloured in GIMP (It was acting okay again) The difference is the outline. The upper one is with the original outline:
With this one I copied the outline and blured it. So the original outline is on top, the next layer is blured, and then the colour come:
The last one here is what I will think of as the conclusion. A gradient layer from GIMP, smudged out and adjusted, again with the smudge tool. The lazy solution, I know.
Work in progress, right? I do not know if I am going to make it any better.
might I add that even if it is a perfect woman, a woman is a woman and can make a choice whether or not to let him look. I beleive that unless she belongs to cen in a physical and lovingly way, it shouldn't be his call.
of course, this is in reference to if she really existed.
I think he love her at least. And she does belong to him (being a delusion).
Poor guy.
Oh the heartbreak I would LOVE to see if Lyra fell for another man other than cen (not speaking in turn of Thoad specifically, but any man in general)! The sorrow and despair he'd feel would certainly make my day, more than dancing in the rain and finding a wilted rose. . . Oh how much I would love to see that!