As I extract myself from the pod, as I disconnect the umbilicals, that statistic plays across my mind. 94%. 53% of dives end in death, 41% in serious disabling injury. You don’t go down here and expect to come back.
But I don’t care. Somewhere down here, in the endless snow, she’s waiting for me.
She must be.
Trying to draw an illustration in the style of Katsuya Terada. I think it went reasonably well, but the colouring is not able to hit the same notes he does.
Here is the pure-lineart version:
Perhaps it is presumptuous, but if you'd like to have your own go at colouring, please have at!
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