Have a Joyous Autumn Equinox! by @lynne (Lynne)
Another terrible digital-camera 'scan'. But, today is both the autumn equinox and Turchino's birthday. He's been with me a whole year now--he was hatched on the equinox last year.
Vivaldi and Mozart BOTH wrote him motets for the occasion, and even though I was going to put musical notes in this, it felt too tacky, so I didn't.
On the left with the violin is Viva, then in the middle is me, and on the right with the music score of his own motet, Mozart. Mozart chose his own outfit, but I chose the colors. I told him pink and purple and blue and gold (which was what he wanted) was completely unaesthetic for the picture, so I changed all the colors on his clothes... it doesn't look that great but it looks better than what he wanted to choose.
Turchino is the lil blue Dragon, obviously. Quite happy and singing along with me, we're singing the motet Viva wrote I believe, since he wrote a violin accompaniment part to it.
This is all done with colored pencil and a little marker for shading on the figures, and I touched it up a wee bit on the computer just because the scan came so horribly.
This image made me add you to my Watch list. :) The colors are lovely and I particularly adore how you rendered the dragon. Specifically - the transparency of its wings is gorgeously done. :) I'm also very impressed with the violin. :) Having recently rendered one myself (in my Archive) I know they are annoyingly difficult - at least for me!
My joy is only marred by the bottom left corner where you didn't fill in the background all the way. (Not that I should talk, you can look at some of my recent pictures and see the same. XD) I wouldn't say "crop it out!" because then you'd lose the lovely space up in the top left corner, with the sky and ground and tree and the sun blurring the edges of the leaves so you can't see them properly. (THAT was masterfully done.)
Anyhoo - I love that you added so many characters and made such a lovely picture. :)