Tiny Soldier with Big Heart

In researching old engraving and pen stroke techniques for a (losing) T-shirt design entry for Corporate Challenge (turns out bold, simple graphics look better on T-shirts, at least in the eyes of this committee), I tried finishing some other sketches (including this one) in the same manner. I'm always trying to get better at drawing people, and after drawing this soldier, I got fed up with always having to draw from my mind (as opposed to drawing from a reference), so I decided to put my thumb (which I could look at) under him and a beer bottle cap (not that one was lying around or anything) behind him. And that is how these two worlds of scale came to be in the same place.