I'm Blue Ba Da De Ba Da Da challenge! The whole thing was done with three colored pencils- bleu, bleu pale, blue ciel...because the challenge was to draw something only in blue. The only digital thing at all is my watermark. I hope that's okay.

Well, my scanner like all others bleached this thing pretty bad. I had shading on the guy's legs to show he was moving, not deformed, but it's all gone now. This is the first thing I've colored with colored pencils in about ten years so it's very poor quality anyway. I dislike coloring.

I like how the path leading away turned out. That's about it. The hand is a bit deformed. The grass was very annoying to do, which is what led me to coloring the stones on concrete to get the texture. No way was I drawing in the texture. The graveyard they're in is not that big. The landscape doesn't look like that, but I didn't want to try drawing a town.

The story behind this (because I'm unfortunately a writer, haha) is that you have two brothers, Teseo and Shadi, who are very close. Teseo stays in his country, Shadi becomes a wanderer. After half a decade the reunite for the births of their sons and funerals of their parents. Teseo is happy to have his family together in these times, but Shadi is a wanderer and eventually realised he'll need to leave again. After their mother's service Shadi pulls Teseo aside to tell him he's leaving. Teseo begs him not to, saying how much he needs him during this time, but Shadi knows he has to leave. He needs to go back to his work, which is extremely important to the country. And so Shadi leaves, only this time he doesn't exactly come home.

Blue was always a color associated with sorrow and calmness, which is a graveyard. They're peaceful, they're pretty, but somewhere someone just left fresh flowers. Teseo is standing between the pillars of his mother and grandmother. Shadi has a ponytail but it's difficult to see. A not blue picture of a side CU of Shadi- here.

Thanks for the challenge Pikmin!

Teseo and Shadi are created by me. They and all related concepts belong to The Unsaid Works.