Gift- What Are Friends For?

"No, I owe you guys," CK said as he held up the scroll with his left hand. By now his team was right behind him, curious as to what the autistic giraffe would do next. "You three nearly died because of me… and I figured you worked too hard to leave with broken dreams… so…"

In a shocking instant, the giraffe handed the document to Akari, who took it hesitantly. What was with this guy? He found the scroll first, he had used his brains to do it, his team worked hard for it, and now he was just giving it to them? She was so puzzled, but when she looked up to CK he was smiling shyly. He claimed, "You guys shouldn't be sad. You tried. And as far as I can tell that makes you a winner too!"

Akari smiled. "Thank you."

"Ah, what are friends for?"

Finally, after one long week of working on this, my extremley lat birthday gift for is done! Sorry it took so long bar, but my computer isn't exactly the fastest thing ever. At one point it froze up completley and I lost all the progress I made on myself. Anyway, this is the scene from the latest part of Wizards of Pagonia, where CK gives Akari the Sorcerer's Scroll so Team Angel Wings can continue competing. I like the shading in this.

Originally this was also a test picture. I'm currently experimenting in cheeks and trying to make them all shiney like twisted-wind and yinller. And, while I did some tests on this pic and it looked good, something tells me I still need some help and advice.

Anyway, Happy Birthday barbaaritha!