I request some advice, help or...

or if you feel so inclined, an outright gift. 

I do want an icon that goes with my Victorian Boys stories.  I have two problems:

1) I have a lame photo manip program and I suck with photo manip (of course maybe it I got a better one I might not have such a bad time).

2) It's really freaking difficult to find pictures of Black kids in Victorian outfits.  Ethan Phipps, if it wasn't obvious from my first description of him, is supposed to look to some extent African descended.  And thinnish.

But, despite all that, I found a couple of pictures.  So I'm wondering; how difficult would this be?

( pictures of boys, whoo hoo )

Advice? 

thinking about drawing my icon

I'm mainly just posting this to remind myself of where to find some things if I want to go back to this idea.  I was going to post it locked, but then I thought some of you might find it amusing.

( male beauty really does seem to be an oxymoron )

I did, however find references to an interesting sounding book called, "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men."

Okay, nuff a that.  Must get my brane out in the air.

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I'm awfully competitive.  I'm annoyed that someone got a higher score than me.

( how stupid is that? )