"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand,

or whispers a kind word of encouragement,

or attempts to understand a lonely person,

extraordinary things begin to happen."

• Loretta Girzaitis

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

• Abraham Lincoln

"Of all the things that wisdom provides to make life entirely happy,

much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

• Epicurus

This is a previous piece of work revisited. I went back because every time I kept looking at it, I kept wishing more and more that I'd given it a better treatment, 'cause I felt like what I did with it didn't live up to the potential that I could envision in the sketch I started from. So I finally took the time to do it better. Hopefully it's turned out alright this time.

Done I guess about half and half in Photoshop CS5 (good precision line work tools and filters) and Paint Tool SAI (awesome for freehand drawing and painting).

P.S., no Twixie. :P