Art Pieces

Losing Hope WIP

So this is a project I started yesterday, so it's not finished yet (hence WIP-work in progress). But anyway, I found this beautiful photo handler Bruce Carroll and his partner a scout dog named Fritzie, serial number 0X05, of the 47th IPSD (Infantry Platoon Scout Dog)

(It took a little bit of Internet stalking to trace back who this photo was of and such, but I found it because I'm good at that kind of stuff)

Anyway, I fell in love with the picture, so I started to recreate it, but with Hope instead of Fritzie

And like I said before, it's not finished yet, but it's a fairly good start. The trees took me no kidding 3 hours because I couldn't figure out this certain brush tool and I was using at least 10 layers solely for the trees. I've gotten it down to 6 tree layers now (though I might add some later), and I'm expecting to take twice as long and make twice as many layers by the time I work out the water and rocks.

So yeah, hopefully I'll have this finished sooner rather than later.

Also: here's another piece I "finished" *cough* gave up on *cough* lately.

It's of Deacon, my second OC ever (I don't remember if I talked about him before) my British WW1 Mercy Dog. I got super lazy with the background, especially the town in the back, and kinda got sick of working on it. Who knows though, maybe I'll finish it some day.

The line "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" is the title of a poem about WW1 written by Wilfred Owen. It means "It is sweet and right to die for ones country" and the line from the poem says, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori."

And yeah, etc. I used it because it suits Deacon and his story.