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Jiro.
As I continue to get to know Jiro over the past few months, I continually discover more and more wonderful things about him and so I’m very excited to finally get to fully share such a wonderful person with everyone. I hope you find him as interesting as I find him wonderful.
Jiro’s story is the story of the supporting character in everyone else’s.
One of the most defining characteristics of Jiro, and one of the things I admire most about him, is how great of a support he is to those around him. He may seem scatter-brained and out of it most of the time so he doesn’t come across as reliable (in fact he’s probably coming across as the character, the child, who has to be taken cared of). Jiro isn’t an unyielding rock in the face of adversity. Jiro is the kind of person that spend every moment feeling his surroundings, the sunshine, the flowers, the trees, the air, the heat of the kitchen - everything. He has an almost childlike wonder about the beauty of the world around him and because of his curiosity and awe, he is actually very much in tune with everything that flows around him. His reliability comes from how he has learned to bend with the energy around him.
Jiro’s earnestness, consistent work-ethic, and humble countenance is what opened doors for him as the perfect supportive member everyone would want on their team. He is subtle and sometimes unnoticeable but the presence that elevates everyone in the team. His personality (and lack of ANY male arrogance) is what allows him to be a wonderful life partner to someone as bright as Danielle and the perfect Sous Chef/Creative partner with a visionary Thai Chef I have yet to name.
I love talking about my characters so ask me anything about them. I’m afraid to put too much here that it would bore people to death but I have various word files dedicated to each character and their relationships with everyone in their lives when I’m working on them so sharing whatever it is anyone is curious about them is fun.
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While thinking Danielle/Cloé, I was wondering why she never felt right as a metaphorical sunflower. I always knew it would be important to her character, but it never felt right. It was while focusing on Jiro that I realised that Danielle/Cloé isn’t the sunflower, Jiro is. While Danielle/Cloé is the sun itself.
So here is Jiro with his fellow sunflowers, me trying to capture the happy and bright but soft gentle-ness and sincerity of his personality.
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A mini project I did based on a wedding I attended in a dream
The Knight’s final design is a combination of the two versions I uploaded
Although I’m not very satisfied with how I painted the illustration, I learned a lot and the app werble is pretty awesome.
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The current design for the King and George’s Father in my modern fantasy project George.
I’m thinking of maybe going for something more realistic that this in the future for it hmmm….
(I didn’t realise that my queue ran out)
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Goodbye old friend this is the end of the man I used to be. For there’s been a strange and welcome change in me…
(For Once in my Life - Dean Martin’s version)
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