This is fascinating. Not only absolutely beautiful sketches and characters in progress... but very interesting to hear your first-hand account of censorship. Our culture has a dangerous habit of beautifying battle scenes and embellishing gun-wielding heros. (Education, news, film...) The reality is, when we see bloodless depictions of war and the proud-chested victors smiling - we think, hey, that's not half bad... in fact, that looks exciting! Over-sanitizing can be such a damaging thing to a young person as they develop a perspective of the world.... Anyway, great post. And on a lighter note - I love the movie Last of the Mohicans!
Thanks, @voronoi. It is alarming, isn't it? How else do they get 18 year olds sucked in to war?
Last of the Mohicans - one of my favorite films. We lived in Asheville NC briefly, and hiked up to the spot where poor Alice and Uncas met their untimely ends. It's beautiful up there in the Blue Ridge mountains.