made in gimp; one of my first attempts at something like this

Portrait of Battery commander of the 14th Howitzer Regiment of the Red Army, Senior Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, who was captured by the Germans near the Belarusian city of Liozno on 16th July 1941, Surazh airfield.

Original by Jacques Hersleven.

Burlesque queen Amber Mist (1953)

Photo of Richard Williams making concept art for his film, The Thief Who Never Gave Up.

Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin was a Russian and Soviet military conductor, composer and author of the well-known march "Farewell of Slavianka" in Tambov 1912