Dark Rose and Cinderella

Yes, the title of this piece is about the two characters I have labored all day to depict over and over.

Using digital tools and a drawing app on my touchscreen phone allows me to redraw parts of the picture or pictures in many different ways. The drawing app allows you to fill in numerous details over and over with complex details like patterned clothes already composed to be painted into the proper spaces.

Here’s what it looked like early in the process. Yes, I didn’t finish it before saving it the first time.

Filling in some spaces, I used my fingers instead of the stylus. Finger painting, illustrated by my own hand I added on with my own fingers and then added details.

I should have done this one first and then dressed them after instead of doing it backward.

I think these two odd friends need to become a poem. I am old. I think in poetry far too often. It probably is a symptom of dementia.