Cytheria and Shadow (the last of the Sonic stuff)

I goofed and made the piece wider than my scanner plate, which means that even with some cropping there's shadow effects at the edges where the paper isn't flat against the glass.
( With attempts to remove the shadow with contrast and brightness tweaks )

( No adjustment at all )

One of the many problems with Christmas music on the radio

A lot of Christmas standards (please, these aren't "holiday" songs, with a few exceptions) simply aren't all that long. Sure, many of them have obscure additional verses that can be used to stretch them out to the radio standard 3:15 length, but a lot of Christmas songs on the radio are horribly padded out, repeating the entire song twice with an instrumental solo in the middle or something.

What we need next week:

Black Lantern Suicide Squid.