So awhile back I wrote a short story. Inspired by all the short story illustration books I’ve seen I wanted to do something similar. The numbering is for how I’ve broken it up into pages. I was wanting to do something that is reminiscent of a children’s story on the surface, but the content of such was much darker. How did I get so emo? Please enjoy, I’ll post the pages as I get them drawn, Oh and when you’re done check out So Good for Little Bunnies, by Brandi Milne- reading this at the 2008 LA book fair is what solidified why I had to make this into something! ^_^
1) Once an orange angel was assigned to protect a yellow dog. This was the angel’s last chance, as Orange was not the best of angels.
2) To prove himself Orange had to put another life before his own desires for the duration of an entire lifetime. If unable to complete this task the Orange Angel would be doomed to purgatory for all of eternity.
3) As previously mentioned, Orange was not the most attentive guardian angel, but the yellow dog was by far the stupidest creature ever fathomed by man or God.
4) On the first day, Orange was distracted for a mere second, and the yellow dog took a long walk off a short pier and fell into the ocean.
5) The yellow dog was washed out to sea while all Orange could do was watch helpless.
6) After some time it seemed that yellow dog would drown alone in the ocean. But then out of nowhere a mermaid came along.
7) The mermaid scooped up the yellow dog. She looked for a safe place to put the yellow dog, as she could not approach the mainland.
The Mermaid found a (very) small rock island and placed yellow dog there. The mermaid promised to feed and take care of the helpless yellow dog.
9) The mermaid was kind and spent much of her days caring for the yellow dog she had now grown to love. But Orange was a different story. Orange now loved the mermaid.
10) Orange hated that the yellow dog got all of her affection and was too dumb to know how lucky he was. The mermaid’s love for the yellow dog ate at every bit of Orange’s soul
11) It crushed Orange that the mermaid would never know of his existence or of all the hours he spent thinking of her, and only her.
12) Years went by, and as each passed the Orange Angel grew more bitter and more angry.
13) But most of all Orange grew jealous of the little Yellow dog; until one day came that he could take no more.
14) When the mermaid left the island Orange kicked the yellow dog into the ocean. Orange smiled as he watched the yellow dog slowly float out to sea and eventually drown.
15) It wasn’t until later, when the mermaid came back and saw the dog floating in ocean dead, had Orange realized what he had done.
16) The mermaid began to cry harder than she ever had before.
17) With her love gone she too gave up living, spending her last few days alone with only her tears. Orange watched as the mermaid slowly died from her broken heart.
18) The Orange Angel was sent to purgatory, forced to feel all the pain he had caused, left with only his own broken heart for the rest of eternity.
THE END 
As many of you know I love to draw portraits. I used to get the opportunity to draw them all the time, and make a little money too! Not so much lately, so what I’ve been doing is going into Seattle and secretly drawing people. Not only do I want to do a great caricature, but I also want to do it before the person notices I’m drawing them. That is *really* difficult, AND as soon as they notice you drawing them, they start making faces, start talking to you (making career suggestions) it really ruins the fun of it. So here’s what I’ve done recently…enjoy! 
