Graceful Ghost/Rag

It really wasn’t so bad once he got used to it, the long hours and late nights were nothing he couldn’t handle. What broke his heart though, what really made him miss the life he left behind, was that he found it was particularly hard to foxtrot when one has no feet.

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(GraphicsGale, Graphire 4)

Insipired by this piece, which I’ve been listening to a lot lately. It’s a beautiful song, at the same time sad and a little bit off-kilter. The sort of thing that’s great for a rainy afternoon to yourself. Our friend here was one of the greatest dancers in all of Louisiana till luck turned against him and he lost everything, his love, his home, and his very life. Still dressed in his finest chapeau and monocle, he spends his night waltzing by himself in the burnt out remains of his mansion, trying to relive those days when he had it all.

I used the sprite medium mostly, I admit, because I wanted a new display pic, but also because I find it’s the medium I am most comfortable colouring in. On that note, I tried to pick a bunch of sort of old, worn, nostalgic colours. Not much else to say about this one, other than that I think it’s sort of adorable.