My entry for @spaingaroo's daily contest, in which he provides one of his artworks from his (awesome!) sketchbooks and asks to make a creative interpretation of it.
You can find the original sketchbook-entry #2 by @spaingaroo right here.
Read the rules and regulations of his daily contest right here.
And this is what I did with it, let's title it "Diary of a Soldier"
My workflow: I used a photo of one of my paintings of World War I soldiers.
(In this case the painting of Emile Brichard - if you want to now more about this historical figure "Emile Brichard", then drop a comment "Emile!" and I'll tell you a little known story about him, ok?)
Multiplied the layer of the painting with the sketchbook of @spaingaroo in photoshop (to get a more authentic feeling)
For the text I scanned a postcard I have in my archive, sent from one of my great-grandfathers to another one of my great-grandfathers (when their respective son and daughter - that would be my grandfather and grandmother - were engaged). I darkened the layer in photoshop to blend it with the moleskine and toned it down just to reduce the readabilty slightly.
Alltogether, I think it makes for an authentic diary of a soldier, writing down his journey during World War I, having his portrait in there, for the future generations to read and see.
What do you think?