Richard Sharpe II

It's Major Richard Sharpe! Wellington's man, the soldier's soldier, fan of garlic. XD

The sketch took me a few hours yesterday (saturday), and the coloring took me close to 9 straight hours of coloring and re-outlining (not counting foor breaks, etc.) today.

It took me forever to decide on a background, and it wasn't until I looked around the room and spotted my book of Mucha designs that I figured on doing something art nouveau inspired. Granted that style surfaced a good 80-90 years after the Sharpe series takes place, however I still like it.

Sharpe is a character in Bernard Cornwell's series ©, and is drawn here as he is depicted by Sean Bean, who played him in the TV movies.