"Ryth - Winter 2006" by Ruth E. Steinback

I decided I have a ridiculous amount of fun doing cutaway drawings.  Most pictures pan down and end where the panel frames it, this rather just splits the scene and keeps going.  I've been playing around with it while comicing to show both above and below water aspects of a scene and figured - why not dirt too?

Dragon-y girl Ryth got a new outfit in this one as well, figured it was appropriate since she'd freeze in her usual armour in a winter scene.  I'm sure she's pleased (she sure looks it!).

I don't know why people hate winter snow, theres always wondrous things buried beneath the snow.  And the snows so dang pretty!  Those little snowy wisps in the bottom cave are the minions(?) of the Snow princess.  She collects and keeps the things that get lost and forgotten to the rest of the world when they disappear in the snow.  She gets more explorers and children than you'd hope, but thankfully she gets lots of shinies to keep them amused, and socs and mittens to keep them warm.

Someone could find that mitten yet, so it might be saved!

I've gotten a lot better huh?  Faster too.  [Dec 2006]