Here's a late, belated birthday painting for Dynamite. Their birthday was back in May (the 11th @_@) but I did have it done maybe the first week of June. Don't worry about Trickster, we'll get to that later.

I added a little more yellow to the orange to soften it from the last time. Orange is tricky like red (from PK's painting in April), so softening the backgrounds with other colors makes it a little less harsh on my eyes. I used the same yellow in the top as in the orange, so they kind of worked.

Dyna's date idea would be thrifting for clothes, and I really like how it turned out. The top is based on one I own but mine is red, and the aforementioned yellow was a better, sunnier choice. While Dyna has a wardrobe that is provided by Seamstress and Tailor, they also thrift and customize their clothes all the time. I have a lot of ideas for outfits that I need to get down, but I can never choose what I want to draw. And moreover, I never know what to put on the facemasks XD You'd think from the several dozen I had from the pandorama back in 2020, I'd have better ideas but nope, all I got in my brain case are flowers and animal faces.

Configuration 1 - San José

"Searched?" Guitierrez said, with a laugh. "Of course they've searched. They've gone over every square inch of this country, again and again.

They've sent out dozens of search parties - I've led several myself. They've done aerial surveys. They've had overflights of the jungle. They've had overflights of the offshore islands. That in itself is a big job. There are quite a few islands, you know, particularly along the west coast. Hell, they've even searched the ones that are privately owned.

"Are there privately owned islands?" Levine asked. "A few. Three or four. Like Isla Nublar - it was leased to an American company, InGen. Or Isla Tacaño - it was---" "But you said that island was searched…" "Thoroughly searched. Nothing there." "And the others?" "Well, let's see," Guitierrez said, ticking them off on his fingers. "There's Talamanca, by the eastern shoreline; Blue Cross and Helix set up a perimeter there. There's Isla S., on the west coast; it's leased to a German mining company. And there's the Blackzone, up north; there's a wealthy Costa Rican family that dwells there. And there may be another island I've forgotten about." "And the searches found what?"

"Nothing," Guitierrez said. "They've found nothing at all. So the assumption is that the animals are coming from some location deep in the jungle. And that's and that's why we haven't been able to find it so far." Levine grunted. "In that case, lots of luck." "I know," Guitierrez said. "Rain forest is an incredibly good environment for concealment. A search party could pass within ten yards of a large animal and never see it. And even the most advanced remote sensing technology doesn't help much, because there are multiple layers to penetrate - clouds, tree canopy, lower-level flora. There's just no way around it: almost anything could be hiding there."