Dear Journal, you won’t believe what happened under the old bakery today. This girl is Sally, an original character I made up to star in an original short story I wrote for my daughter. This scene would be perfect for book 2.
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This scene was originally conceived for the prompt word “BEAST” of last year’s Inktober, where three original characters were going on a quest to hunt a supernatural beast. Back in that year, I was writing a short story for each prompt-word, and this was probably the most ambitious of them in such a way that I couldn’t finish neither the story nor the illustration. But now it’s here.
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I have made quite a few illustrations for this short story, “The Tiny Paper Man,” but this time, I think I hit the mark I was looking for. I hope you like it.
You can read it online via WATTPAD in English or in Spanish version.
Or download it for mobile devices here.
Check the process of creating the illustration below.
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Written and Illustrated by Luis Roding
Reading time: 10 minutes
Purple was the color the lady chose to wear that evening. She needed to maximize her theatrical impression, considering such a customer had decided to pay her a visit at last.
She looked at herself in the mirror and thought she’d never been so pretty and young.
– And now, for the show. Which one should we use? – She asked, opening a wooden vault where four beautiful crystal balls lay.
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– Where did you find that? – I said, when I realized what she was holding, was the “twin sister” of the wand I had found.
– This is mine – She said, eyes fixed on the object. It caught my attention when she said “mine.”, did we own those things now?
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