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Well this took a while. And by a while I mean several days. I'm proud of it though. Nick is being forced to relive his entire life, and I've illustrated a few notable moments, some of which will probably mess him up a bit.

No I do not get tired of drawing him.

I inked it... It still looks sketchy but I don't mind that.

I often wonder what that moment of realisation must have felt like.

Also, long ramble about historical stuff ahead.

For context - when Niccolo Paganini moved out at a young age, he developed a gambling habit. He probably got it from his father, who was a gambler himself (it's believed that this is how a dock worker could acquire an Amati violin), and though Niccolo's gambling phase, contrary to popular belief, was only short-lived and he later condemned gambling, there are stories about him gambling away his precious Amati violin in a drunken haze. Some people falsely believe it was a Stradivarius, some sources say that he *almost* gambled his Strad away and this is what made him give up gambling before it could develop into an addiction.

Now, I don't know how much of that is true. Paganini has been vilified a lot, and many nasty and most likely untrue rumors were spread about him in his lifetime, some of which are still told as though they were historical fact today. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did make some bad decisions. He was young and stupid once, too, and probably pretty troubled. I'm not going to go into the reasons why in a more lighthearted post where I poke fun at him, that's another story for another day, but it'll come up in the comic.