Pencil lineart, scanned in and painted with Photoshop CS2 and Wacom Bamboo Tablet. Time approximately 6 to 8 hours.
Thanks for the background textures goes to [link] and [link]

Another painting of a situation that exactly happened like that in our roleplay.
The protagonists: Cronachan (c) me and Veleda (c) Kiki.
Both are original characters and belong to their respective owners/creators alone!

The whole scene takes place in utter darkness and I tried to hint at that fact with some filters and a very blurred backdrop...

The story:
Cronachan wanted to celebrate his *Marthanas as Saolu* (birthday) and prepared everything. The *party* involved only Veleda and Fearghas, quite some alcohol and poison of scorpions (loooong story).
Whatever... the three celebrated in a dark room, only lit by a few fairy fires, for the sake of the humans. Good food and good wine... all had fun and were VERY lightheaded in the end.
At last the magical light went out and Cronachan, who can see in utter darkness, offered to fetch a lantern. Seeing pretty Veleda sitting there, trusting and unaware, the daredevil in him came out.
(Veleda doesn't like to be touched by men, she always keeps a dagger at hand (even at night), touching her against her will is DANGEROUS.)
Despite this danger Cronachan sneaked up to her and stole a kiss. The painting shows the second right after the kiss. She is totally stunned and he grins mischieviously *I did it!*.

Veleda was a bit shaken but not really angry. She was drunk too, as was Fearghas. By the way... she trusts Cronachan that he will NEVER touch her, REALLY touch her. She knows that this was just a prank, a cantrip...

has coloured the same lineart with my permission and because she was allowed to, since she is a member of the *Cronachan Fanai Fan-Club*.
As soon as she loads it up, I'll put the link in!!! And here it is: [link]