Life of a Random

source: Briana  @Reader, Writer, Critic Figments Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Briana @Reader, Writer, Critic  where we share our writing and anything related--like snippets from our WIPs, character interviews, or even conversations between a character from one story and a character from another story.  Today I'm sharing another snippet from the story that I'm mainly working on now. Maybe sometime in the future I'll do an interview or something like that. :) My hand burns where it touches Keelin's. And I see flashes of images, fast as the speed of light, hurtling, zipping, careening through my mind. They are so intense--so strong--that the air itself seems to be resisting the attempts I make to breathe it in.  And worst of all. The very worst of all is the emotion that rolls so strongly through my body that I feel like vomiting up my breakfast.  I yank my hand back and give Keelin a forced small smile. "You'll be fine, sweets....

Or something like that... I recently got a new laptop and one of the perks is that it's touchscreen. And when I've been coveting my sister's touchscreen solely because she got to use the paint tool which allows you to paint with your fingers on the screen , you can bet that's one of the first things I'm going to play around with. Since I haven't done any pencil drawings or acrylic paintings recently (but wanted to do a post on my art), I'm going to be showing you a few of my digital drawings. They aren't AMAZING but they're good enough that I feel okay about putting them out into the great big wide internet. ;) I did this one with watercolors for the rocks the waterfall is going down and the waterfall (and all other water) itself. I also used the watercolors on the person and boat because I wanted them to have a sort of dreamy feel. I used pastels for the vine that covers the whole left rock face, the water foaming up at the bottom, and th...