#dampened

Inspired by the Sad, Damp men collections I've seen around.

A few bits that were particularly hard or that I was particularly pleased with. First the eyelashes/ hair shadows on the face:

And the fingers, which I must have repainted four times, but was finally happy with:

He called Igni like he’d promised, and like he’d told Dius, it hadn’t been easy to see him or talk to him. The huge Palavenian looked small and drawn, and so tired and he sparked every few words, apologizing meekly every time. It just... It was like talking to a different person that just looked like the man he still loved. He’d told Igni that and the former guard had laughed, saying he felt a little like a different person too. Cato was more deeply bothered by it all than than he could really explain. He’d tried to, but it hadn’t helped matters. Eventually he’d ended up talking to Eros when Igni became too tired and upset to continue. And that had gone over great. Eros was so cross with him, so overprotective of Igni now. Cato was left telling him he could call back when he’d calmed down.

Five hours of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and top US negotiators did not yield a breakthrough on a possible Ukraine peace deal, a Kremlin aide said early Wednesday. US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner sat down for the high-level talks with Putin. Among the sticking points were Kremlin demands for Ukraine to formally renounce…