Thanks Aldo it's nice to get a bit of credit sometimes. I do spends hours painstakingly agonising over my Art. People don't realise or appreciate how difficult it actually is.
You were close in your (True) detective work I work in fact for Studio Ghibli. Here is some of my original stuff featuring characters I created for "Spirited Away".
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YOu can see that the central character originally was a ginger. Studio bosses objected to it and said people don't respond well to them. It's where I got the idea for our own proxy Neil. They didn't like the design for the other character they said it looked too much like Charlie Chaplin.
Proxy Neil actually takes me back to my youth Mo and a fellow I i knew who had ginger hair . Charie Cairney was the chaps name and he too was a tim .
His nickname was Charlie Ridwig .
Anyhoo I know not the despair Charlie felt due to his amber locks but suffice to say he came to the end of his tether around about the age of 19 .
Lets just say his attempts at concealing his gingerness was akin to your excellent rendition of the new and improved Celtic supremo .
He was still called Charlie ridwig though . He also took a power for dying his hair .
I do believe he is doing well and has his own place now thanks to care in the community .



