Poor Willy Wombat!

[egypturnash]

Colonel Crow, in the Library, with the Revolver.



Col. Crow's career was unusual, in that it existed at all. Most women of the 1910s were kept well away from the service during the War, with the exception of a few all-female divisions that, truly, served more as morale-boosting exercises than actual combat units. Ms Crow, however, broke the rules. She brassed her way into the Army at the age of thirteen as a boy, and managed to keep her sex secret until she'd already earned two medals for distinguished service.

There was really nothing to do with her except promote her, and ship her back home to a desk job, at that point.

Mr. Wombat made one too many jokes about "closing your eyes and thinking of England" when Col. Crow was in earshot.

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Many thanks to Chris Goodwin for the initial inspiration. Hope you don't mind me appropriating your abandoned concept!

Comments

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

About my only two suggestions would be:

1) Careful with the flourishes on the text. A couple go a long way, and several go way too far. The closing quote marks practically disappear into the flourish of the 'd'.

2) The wallpaper texture is misaligned with the angle of the wall enough to cause disorientation, and not the good sort. I'd put just enough perspective effect on it to make sure it fit with the rest of the lines, and then it would be perfect.

Other than that, I love the piece. The crosshatching to add shading to the bookshelf works well, I think.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I really hated the perspective effect the few times I played with it; it's not something I consider usably finished. I chose to fake it rather than draw the pattern by hand or to fight the perspective filter dialogue. Shame there isn't a simple "perspective distort" like there's been in Photoshop for a while.