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Barbara J. Wickham

"Blast From The Past: Hand Up!" by Barbara J. Wickham

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Back in high school myself and a friend used to have many great adventures. We felt that our journeys should be recorded so I started drawing the best parts of our experiences. Of course, our stories were all made up in our own minds and the characters were pure imagination, but we didn’t care too much about that. We had fun and that was what counted.

Here Kira gives a helping hand to Mara who has gotten in too deep seeking special mushrooms for a magic potion. Wait! Is that the sound of earth giving way? Oh, hurry Kira...

Not a very action-packed scene but a great example of the friendship between the two characters. The stories are full of mushy moments like these and that’s what made them so special to me and my friend.

*Very simple, very quick pencil sketch done between classes at school, between 1984 & 85. This one actually got colored. Yeah! An oldie, but goodie!

Update: Please go see the awesome portrait Glo "the bug" Bowden has done of  Kira and Mara. Thank you Glo! *hugs*




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27 Jan 2006:-) Glo 'the Bug' Bowden
First Comment first comment:

This is a goodie! The friendship in this picture is touching -- all these pictures are probably a good sum up of the good times you had together and the friendship you shared. It takes a special kind of person to day dream with, in my little experience at least.

So Mara wasn't just getting Kira out of scrapes, it was the other way around as well. They sound like quite the team.

1 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "Mushy moments were quite abundant but what I found to be most amusing, abhorred by our male players. It was fun to add life & death rescues just to see the expressions on their faces since all they could do was sit back and wait for the moment to pass. Poor babies...

These stories were indeed special because it was a shared experience. Bouncing our ideas off of each other really fleshed out the characters and the world to the point that when we were talking about our adventures it was almost like we were talking about real people. This was perfectly normal to us but we'd often get strange looks from non-players when they overheard our discussions. *chortle*

I may have uncovered more drawings, however they appear to be Kira on a solo adventure. Each of us wrote a short storyline involving our own individual characters after we all got separated in a magical house of mirrors. I only have my own character pics since I gave any other character drawings to the players that owned them. I'll upload a few of these drawings on my next update."
29 Jan 2006:-) Brandon ´Red´ Christ
Umm... are you interpreting my childhood? One time I got stuck in a tree and my friend had to lift me out because my leg was caught in an intersection of two branches. Well, anywho, These are rally good. If you have more, bring them up here!

60 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "It's my hope that at one point or another we all have a friend that gives us a 'hand'. This pic was meant to illustrate that theme and not really drawn as an important part of the storyline.

I'll be sure to post any more drawings I find. Thanks for commenting on these old things! I'm really getting a kick hearing what people think."
6 Jul 2006:-) Karin Hillenbrand
Wow, that's a very nice idea to record the (imaginative) adventures 2

I like this little drawing. It's simple but beautiful.

1 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "Thank you very much! It's amazing that such simple drawings can be so much fun. "
27 Dec 2006:-) Julie Raymond
Hehe, this reminds me of the adventures my friends and I used to have! Ahh, the good old days when dragons and magic and giant eagles were as real as anything else before our eyes...

28 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "*sigh* Yes, those were the good old days. *lol* Actually, I've probably held on to more of my childhood sentiments than is healthy for a person my age, but seriously, what's so special about growing up anyway?! Bah!"
29 Apr 2008:-) Krista Williams
This is so sweet! I likes it. I just wonder what that bird and horse are thinking...they look like they’re having a deep conversation about human behavior. That is, if they can communicate with one another. Sorry. Random.

18 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "I never saw that before! *lol* Of course the horse and bird have to wonder how these silly humans keep getting themselves into these messes. "
29 Apr 2008:-) Krista Williams
And I agree. Growing up is highly overrated. 2

12 Barbara J. Wickham replies: "Absolutely. *chews on a crayon*"
27 Feb 2009:-) Allison L. Miller
Me and my friends do the same thing! Make up imaginary adventures and stuff like that. I can’t draw, so I write them down instead. Great work here, simple yet very elaborate.

:-) Barbara J. Wickham replies: "Thank you, Allison!

I love creating characters and stories about them, but there’s nothing like sharing that process with friends. I only wish I had kept more of the drawings. *cry*"
19 Jun 2009:-) Stephen "Werepenguin" Cauley
This is really nicely colored and the atmosphere here is very well portrayed!

:-) Barbara J. Wickham replies: "Thanks! Definitely one of my favs. 1"
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About 'Blast From The Past: Hand Up!':
 • Status: OK
 • Created by: :-) Barbara J. Wickham
 • Copyright: ©Barbara J. Wickham. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Woman, Women, Horse, Bird, Cardinal, Cave, Mushrooms, Pencil, Colored
 • Categories: Humourous or Cute Things, Normal Animals (Cats, horses, fish, etc), Warrior, Fighter, Mercenary, Knights, Paladins, Woman, Women
 • Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Coloured Pencils
 • Submitted: 2006-01-02 06:31:40
 • Views: 1002
 • Resolution: 599x743


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