Long after Taps had played, and the guns fired their salute. After all but one returned to their normal lives. She turned to go home and there he was. She cried out and they embraced. Their lips pressed together and she felt his warm embrace only for a moment. Then he wisps away forever.

Artist: "I love this picture."


I came across a contest "Create a Feeling 3" and was reading it a few days ago. Ironically, the tv was on in the other room and I over heard something about soldiers dieing. Hmmm... well now. I came up with this idea.
I believe it turned out very well. The actual picture looks allot better then the scan, but I used paint.net to adjust the brightness, contrast, hugh, saturation, and light till it looked more like the original.

Original is done in Prismacolor pencil on bristol board 9x12.

I used two photo references from the amazing stock selection on DA. Here they are...

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Thanks you guys for taking the time to post these stocks.

I may still touch it up some more before the contest deadline.

Thank you for taking the time to look. Comments are welcome.