To my castle! I liked Minuette for design alone, but now that she has an established personality, she's WAY up on my favorites list. ^^ In my mind, Lyra's personality was always what Minuette's is now: bubbly, happy, excitable, energetic. I tried an old shading technique with a slightly different approach. With some tweaking, this could be a good rendering method for me. I'm still playing around with this stage. Speaking of stages, I put together a little progress sheet with a couple extras just because: