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This picture is actually the very first drawing I made of Jackie - and it's many months old too, but I still thought I should show it around - and I also wanted to make something similar to a character biography in the meantime, to tell a little about him as well. Jackie still has short ears in this drawing and is carrying his key in his mouth, instead of having it on a string around his neck, but that's pretty much it.

Despite of that, there isn't too much to say about him - Jackie lives in St. John, a little village with a girl called Clarissa, is agile and fast, and can fly just fine too with his wings (he can't carry really anyone though, even though he'd probably try and just end up in whatever is below them again ;P ). He is mute as in that he cannot talk to others like other characters can (like, Tobias can speak just fine), however he can still give out ultrasonic chirps (as bats can) and thus find his way around in the dark (so should you ever get lost in an all dark cave and he's around, he'd be able to help you getting out save and sound again ^-^ ). This is also the reason he's not really scared of the dark at all, like Tobias sometimes is.
Personality-wise Jackie is helpful and very caring, even though he's also a bit overcautionous and worrying at times. He tends to overestimate his size and strength as well, often forgetting that he's not much taller than a mere fifteen centimetres, but can still achieve suprisingly much despite of that.

He wears a little key with him at all times which he had for as long as he can remember, and has a little silver whistle he got from a friend, which he uses to get her attention ^-^

Technique-wise the picture was one of the first "night" drawings I did, and I actually coloured the character first, and then made the background black. Phiyrr's drawing was the second one, where I started with a black background and threw colours in - which is probably the better way to go , come to think of it ^^ Heh, you learn something new every day, right? ;P

Anyhow, hope you like it ^-^

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Written by Lolly on Nov 20, 2005

OOOOOO!!!

Night pictures are SO fun, ja?

I like the little flies, and how Jackie is kind of...messing around with them. X3 I like the movement here too, you can easily tell he's going along the path in a fast pace. I LOVE how the foreground is darkened, it reminds me of a theatre! I adore his cute little wings too. I wish I had wingssssss.

The only thing I'd pick at is that the moon is giving off too much light around it. It looks cool, but if you want realism...you know? ^^; It's alomost as if the moon wasn't the moon, bu concentrated light and am I making any sense what so ever? X3;;

Very nice! Yeah..doing the background first tends to be easier. (well, doing a sketch first of the whole thing is of course idealistic, but coloring the background is pretty much easier..can be different amounst people though :3)

It would probably get pretty annoying to carry a key around in your mouth, I'd say, so I'm glad for zJackie he doesn't have to carry it around in there anymore, since it's in his neck- I'm sure he likes that character design tweak as well. ;3

Nicely done Tody, keep up the awsome work! *hug*

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Tobias

Nov 21, 2005

Hehe, yup yup, I loooove night pictures a lot (as you noticed, seeing that my last pictures where all night pictures) ;3 They make the colour look so much nicer, and they're often also more calm than day pictures ^-^

Thanks for your comment and your critique - I know what you mean with the moon, since that's somefthing you already critiqued the last time, so I was thinking whether to make it look more realistic, buuut then I kind of liked the way it was, and figured I didn't want to change a not on it ^^ But you're right, and yush, you're making plenty of sense ^-^

Yup, doing the background first is definitely easier for me - it also helps you getting the lighting right - otherwise the character might be too bright or too dark for the background, you know?

Te-heh, you sure made some weird typos on this comment X3 Oh, and Lolly has wings, no? So she can fly juuuust fine ^-^ It would be nice to have wings for real though, it'd make it much easier to get to school and everything (and more fun too ^-^ )

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