"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." (Ruth E. Renkl)

Howdy, people!

I didn't post this before because I was hoping someone would comment on the last one, and it seems just Morgaine felt like cheering Lion up a bit.
Thanks for the comment, little cousin!

Truth is, after some days spent in pain, Lion started thinking about his life. He thought how suffering, as it is part of life, it's also something that we have to not let take over our heart.
He learned that many times in life we're going to get hurt, but it's how we respond to that pain that determines what we are made of.

It's okay to suffer for love, just cowards and heartless people never do. But Lion understands now that there's a time when we need to say "no" to our heart, because he can get addicted to a lioness even though she's not the lioness of one's life.
Because, when defining "being the woman (or lioness) of one's life", we have to understand that it's not just one being in love with that person (or lioness), it's also getting some love in return.

Love is definitely a beautiful thing, but it's not worth it if all it gives us is pain. We may need to suffer, but sooner or later we have to get something good out of it, otherwise it's not worth the pain.

One thing that is always worth it is living in a way as much positive as possible! Taking the opportunities that life presents to us and enjoying the ride, not letting any blocking obsession get in our way...

Is Lion definitely cured from whatever love, obsession or passion that he feels for that specific lioness?!
No, I don't think so...
Did he understand he needs to be stronger than that feeling and search for happiness in other places and with other felines?!
Sure!

As a final announcement, Lion is back with his chest pumped up with will to live, and finally determined to let other lionesses get into his life.

This is another self-portrait showing the - maybe forced, but true - confidence with which Lion is determined to start facing life and the lionesses he'll be wanting to meet, from now on!

The technique I used to make this one was the same as the last one.
By the way, Morgaine, "Indian Ink" is what we call "Tinta da China". I don't really know why the country changes with the translation, but well... That's what they call it! xP
Turning the outline into a vector is what I usually do in illustrations like this, where there's a "cartoony" shape with an outline.
There's this software called Illustrator that is made for - make your bets - illustration. And it works with vectors rather than just with bitmaps.

The difference between a vector and a bitmap is that the vector is not treated like an image, but an object. This way, when you zoom in into a vector, you don't get to see any pixels, as you will if you zoom in into a bitmap image, which is a map of tiny pixels.
We can then shape and colour a vector as a complete surface, and stretch it as much as we like without loss of quality (which we can't in an image).

So, by turning the outline into a vector and paint the drawing using Illustrator (creating vectors rather than maps of pixels), I'll be creating an image that I can stretch to whatever size or resolution I want, just needing to stretch it in Illustrator and then drag it into Photoshop, where it will be turned into a regular image, as a map of pixels (already in the size I want to be working), and then paint the shadows and highlights, with my Wacom tablet, to make that cool effect that you usually see in Lions' pictures since Bullions' new image got out!

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p