Hey fellow steemers! Today I'd like to share with you a short story I wrote a couple of months ago along with a little art piece I made recently for it, I hope you like it!

About the story

I'd like to tell you about why I wrote this little story first so I should start by who this story is dedicated to, that's no other person than my girlfriend. I met her when we both were on a really dark page of our own stories, like in most stories, life has them too and it's not strange, after all, every form of art imitates life, don't you agree? But be how it may, we met each other and ended up becoming best friends, helped each other through those tough times and like a matter of fate eventually we ended up together as a couple.

Occasionally I write stories for her of different kinds, this one in particular is a set of rhymes. It came to me thinking about two beings made of incomplete jigsaw pieces trying to form themselves as a mean to represent how we feel we complete each other.

The story: Puzzled

Softly, so softly;
The pieces crawled through;
Wandering, searchingly;
For form to come true.

A mouth, a gaze;
From shatters, they took form;
As if fallen from grace;
Trying to mend what was torn.

Drifting, shapeless;
Incomplete pieces of a jigsaw;
Fragments meaningless;
Utopian what its being found.

Uneasy, unfitting;
What was it doing wrong;
A surge of will uplifting;
Pure instinct, the means to become strong.

Structured yet shattered;
Self neglect and missing pieces;
Still drifting and scattered;
But yet to find more surprises.

Pieces and more pieces;
Could they be mine;
Reaching for senses;
A reaction unforseen.

Flying, swimming;
A kiss, a caress, tenderness to heart;
Floating and danzing;
Fluttering like butterflies as a pure form of art.

Rebuilding, accepting;
Halcyon embrace of love;
So sweet and so caring;
Ethereal but real and soaring like a dove.

Merging, so sweet;
Undone and remade;
Pieces from one another fit;
The jigsaws became the same.

The pixels

I made this little jigsaw piece just yesterday, I wasn't all that sure about how to make it. The original idea was to make a multicolored gradient and shape the piece with the real background color so the piece would be colored but I ended up doing something completely different, just going the traditional way and drawing a diamond shape, then add the details, the squares to make it a jigsaw piece. I should mention I did this small piece on my phone with an app called pixly, which is my weapon of choice at the moment, I'm currently bound to make art in my phone due to life circumstances and it can be really tedious so I've been working on small art pieces like this, but back to the art, I colored it and added some sparkles but that wasn't enough for me.

I still wanted to make the gradient from the original idea but I thought I should keep it blue so I went with an aqua tone for the gradient, I really like the blue and green tones so I tend to use them often, they're easy for me to work with. The gradient was supposed to go top to bottom and the shading top right to bottom left but considering how I did the basic shading it didn't took me long to think "what the hell am I doing" and just did the shading again, bottom to top and in a gradient way so I'd have both things I wanted. When the gradient/shading was done I still wasn't happy with the result, the color change was way too soft so I sharpened it by changing the colors per section more drastically.

After being happy with the gradient I added a shine behind the piece and lastly did the details in the corner just for aesthetic matters and that's it!

Thank you!

I'd like to thank you for gifting me once more a piece of your valuable time to check this little story. I really hope you all liked it and I'll be posting more things soon!

All of the images in this post are my original property