To some of my long term watchers this may look familiar and thats cos it is. To me this is known as Alan's cross as i drew it in memory of one of my classmates who died nerly 2 years ago. I drew the cross soon after the incident, and after 1 year i placed a copy attached to a tree in the school memorial garden.

I placed it there because i couldn't afford anything like flowers at the time and wanted my own personal way of remembering him. After 2 weeks the flowers had disappeared, but my cross remained and to my knowledge it is still there attached to the tree.

However after a year of weathering, it was looking rather dirty and gloomy when i last saw it, so i made a promise to each year replace it. I may not have been good friends with Alan, but his death changed my perspective on life. I wont ever forget him and i hope no one else will.

I am hopefully going tomorrow to change this. i'm not yet sure whether to add it, or to remove the old one and if i remove it, where to place it. I don't think its right for me to keep it, but i'm not sure if anyone else will see the significance in it. i'm not even sure if people have noticed it

Anyways, this is this years design. I remembered to use permentant ink this time. A deviant was talking to me about adding a background colour into my deviations and i decided to give it a try. I quite like it and i might change the colour each year from now on.