"There's a strangest excitement today;
If you're awake then you're welcome to hear.
I've got a gift and it blew me away
From the far eastern sea straight to here.
Oh God, I feel like I'm in for it now -
Its like the rush has gone straight to my brain.
But my voice is as lonely as loud,
As I whisper a joy of this pain.

And suddenly, you've done it all -
You've won me over in no time at all."

The Gift - Angels & Airwaves

This is my friend from camp, Mike. As you might have noticed, I tried a variation on the Sharpie style - I decided to add in shading of sorts. Granted, it took me about twice as long as all my other pictures, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm not sure if I'm going to do more pictures this way, but I like the effect. Incidentally, the song I chose for this is reflective of this picture's existence - it's meant to be a present for his birthday, which is today. I chose a song by Angels & Airwaves because we had a little bonding session at camp in which we went through each other's iPod and discovered that we like a lot of the same music (and mainly discussed the Goo Goo Dolls and Angels & Airwaves). Oh, and he's got the gift of simply being amazing.

~4 hours for working, ~5 hours for obsessing over it
-8.26.08
-mechanical pencil and Sharpie