Finally done with this one, a drawing that took me almost a month to get around to completing, originally intended as something for Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day. This is a depiction of a character that I had conceived years back, Clinton Bohannon, but hadn't really drawn anything of besides an unfinished bodyshot of him. The inspiration was the intro to Garand Thumb's video on the original M1911 model and I liked the idea of a Yankee officer storming a trench full of Grayback Rebs with nothing but his sidearm.
Of course, the first challenge for me was finding the right pose for Mr. Bohannon and sadly, I couldn't find a lot of the right photos and poses for him, so I ultimately just winged it by using a still frame for the video for how the pistol looked. Another was the background, which I also winged and then scoured to look for reference photos for possible dead or wounded Confederates to add in behind our protagonist. I kept alternating between using pastels, paints, or markers for the colors and ultimately settled on the former as I already had them out, it would be a pain to paint in conjunction, and most of the markers I have are alcohol-based, which wouldn't have turned out too well on my mixed media pad.
Like I said, it took me almost a month to get around to it and I kept getting distracted by other crap, like Enlisted events or re-re-re-playing Half Life 2 for that game's 20th anniversary.
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