This is the drawing I did for my little sister's 18th.

I am really, passionately disappointed with this thing. This is not a plea for sympathy, but these description boxes are intended for a creator's view on the piece, yes? You know what it's like, facing an event as significant as an 18th, moreover if it's the one person in the world that you're closest to and care so much about you'd rather die than ever see anything turn sour in their lives? Setting out with good intentions, delusions of grandeur, and wanting nothing more than to do something that in some way shows that they're just the most important person in the world, in a way so inexpressible that words don't even come close? And then totally, utterly, and completely screwing that up, so that your gesture is entirely lost and you're left with something that you wasted time on only to give the message 'I couldn't do something good enough for you'? I felt bad about giving her this thing, but I hadn't done a card, and it was already too late. I didn't even finish the stupid thing on time; I gave it to her a day late. My failure goes that far. I didn't manage to spill the apology I wanted to; she gave me the tightest hug because she's the epitome of everything wonderful and I think she knew I really needed that from her that day.

I think my inital concept started out sound enough. It's poorly composed and has zero depth; I'm aware of that. I'd actually taken some time to paint a lot of individual shadows and highlights, parts illuminated by the moon and such, but because I have no sense of colour scheme, at the end I held it up and realised the whole thing was as colourful as the Spring carnival. I tried to remedy this with a dark, poorly-applied wet-wash, which mercifully darkened it but essentially nullified most of the other watercolour details I'd worked on. I think the inking helped it, but really only pointed out to me that I don't know how to paint. I seriously have no idea what I'm doing. Please don't give me sympathy on this, I'm only being honest.

It's not entirely focussed on the left-hand side, as it was done on A3 cartridge and I only have an A4 scanner. The aforementioned wash wrinkled the paper considerably, making it impossible to get perfectly flat scans that will align correctly when stitched. I'm sorry it didn't work out, but I don't think it's that important. If it's unclear, the signs read 'Somewhere', 'Nowhere' and 'Anywhere'. I suppose I feel obligated to put this up because I'd already mentioned that I'd been working on it. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up.