The Color Gold

Ryuji's piece is certainly a disaster from a technical standpoint, and his skills at drawing and composition are also... lacking. But the portrait of Yusuke does appear to be done with painstaking detail given to even mundane things, like the precise way his hair curls at the nape of his neck and the shape of his eyelashes against his cheek."You've captured many minutiae of my face," Yusuke observes."What's a minutiae?""Small, trivial details. Things most people would overlook.""You think? I've spent so much time the last few days starin' at your face while you've been painting, I've had plenty of time to notice all sorts of little stuff, I guess." Ryuji rubs the back of his neck, sheepish."It is... quite endearing, actually. To be captured so lovingly.""L-lovingly?" Ryuji's voice cracks on the word.-----Ryuji agrees to model for Yusuke's latest painting, and has a go at painting something himself.