Sketch of the day: Alexander & Menander
This is art for one of the Kickstarter prints. I originally hand-watercoloured it, but that didn’t print well, so I redid it digitally and got better results.
The print includes a verse from Catullus:
Value all the old men’s gossip less than copper coins.
Suns set yet rise again, but when our brief light sets
that long night will be an endless sleep . . .
Not so much grim but an encouragement to enjoy life while you can. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, and all that.
A couple of watercolour tests I did to see how they’d print:
Awww! Ridonkulously adorable. Catullus would have been proud of them..!
To keep from making myself sad that the couple has been separated by volcano-ing, I’ll have to draw more pics of them being adorable 🙂
Yes! You should totally do that. They are a nice compliment (and contrast) to Felix and Iusta as The Cute Couple