Yay! I finally finished!
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EDIT: Awesome! I have a name suggestion! Her name is Tuuli. ^^ Thanks, Zekc!
I changed the species name to Makanu (Tuuli is Makanuuan ), which is the Hawaiian word makani with a u instead of an i. Glad that's over... Now I can create a character named Agalia! :yay:
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The background came out lighter than I wanted it to, and the hand... -.-' well, let's just say I can't draw hands to save my life! Either way, the contest is about the creature, NOT the hand holding the creature!

So this is Tuuli, a Makanuuan, who holds the power of the wind in her teeny little paws. :3 I would have drawn more of her, but I wanted to show just how small she really is. She's supposed to have four little paws, (with or without legs, I'm not sure yet) a dark red cloth tied around the base of her tail (with two ends to it... you know, like this: -< ), and I need to restyle her wings someday.

I created this species (and Tuuli) on Saturday night, while watching this STUPID cat that wouldn't come back inside until about 11:00 pm. -.- (Here's my original doodle sheet I did: [link] ) My idea first came from what I would imagine as a little kid. On long car trips, I loved to pretend that there was a little dragon or something flying alongside the car. This picture is actually quite similar to how I imagined it!

In my "fictional" life (reality with a few things added-you'll find that I will use it a lot ), I befriended Tuuli when I was just under 3 months old. We are now inseparable- and she does love to fly alongside our car. ^^ (Only I can see her though... She does this thing where she is invisible to everyone but me. It's weird...

So while I was watching this stupid cat, Tuuli saw a bottle of blue ink on my desk. She thought, "ooh! 'm gonna dye my hair blue!" So... she did. And she didn't like it too much... When I got home, I was like 'OMG WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HAIR?' And she said she had tried to wash it out, but couldn't get all of it. O_O So I spent and hour trying to wash it out... It mostly worked. (Actually, I originally colored her hair blue in the picture, but it didn't match the rest of it, so I had to ERASE all of it... I almost ripped the paper, and it was still a little blue, but I managed to fix it. Don't see it now, do you? ^^)

So even though I'm not entirely happy with the picture, this is my OFFICIAL entry for the contest! It would be nice to win something this early on... maybe i could replace my crappy pencil colors, IF I win..... (unlikely, though) I hope she gets to be at least one of the 10 finalists! She deserves at least that much.

Traditional work, with some edting on GIMP
Tuuli (character, not the name) and Makanuuan species (c) 2008 by Yoshi-Amaterasu