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Long-Overdue Kiriban for ~CharSol

**SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK**

For those of you roundworlders, this is a fairly dramatic and poignant scene from Terry Pratchett's novel "Going Postal".
We have Moist von Lipwig embarking on an impossible race, and his sweetheart Adora Belle Dearheart. He's just proposed to Miss Dearheart, and her resonse is to blow a smoke ring (a ring, get it?) at him and reply, "Not Yet."
The characters in the background are Reacher Gilt (with parrot), Sacharissa Crisplock, a reporter for the Anhk-Morpork Times, and a golem named Pump 19, Moist's parole officer and bodyguard.
Great choice, Charsol. I hope I did the scene justice.
The only liberty I took was to depict Moist leaning out from the side instead of sitting in the passenger seat of the coach. This was because, 1: it's much more dramatic this way, and 2: Moist would be sitting about 7 feet off the ground, and getting him and Adora in the same frame at once would be a really tricky shot.


Pencil and Ink on bristol.
Thanks to Cat, Rich and Sean for posing for me.

Discworld, "Going Postal" and all derivative characters are property of Terry Pratchett.
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*CynicalDeductionist Apr 20, 2013  Student General Artist
Brilliant :love:
I love the bookish style to the illustration and it captures both the mood and the characters very well
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~The-Ventriloquist Aug 26, 2012
This is perfection. Moist is such a showman, and I like his dramatic pose. I like how Adora looks calm yet happy to see Moist and Mr Pump having the number 19 engraved on his head. And Reacher looks like such a pirate!
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~starryeyed-nz May 14, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Fantastic illustration of the scene. I love Moist's dramatic pose - that's exactly how I imagine him, not only his speech being flamboyant and larger than life but his body language the same.
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~oursolemnhour49 Mar 17, 2012
I love this- Moist and Adora are two of my favorite characters, and this is an amazing depiction of them.
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~TheDS9Fangirl Nov 3, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
amazingly detailed! wow, I love it!
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~suerock Oct 2, 2011
yay!
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~Fri-Freeman Apr 14, 2011
beautiful. One of my favourite part of the book, and Adora's answer for Moist's proposal is just priceless.
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~psenci Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Amazing illustration. I love it.
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*Allison-beriyani Feb 23, 2011
asuhojpsbgp!!!!


I just finished the book- I never thought I'd find fanart anywhere!
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~Pale-Face-and-Rain Jan 20, 2011
faint *
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