Broken Cheer

Time:
I'm not sure how long I worked on this one... I worked on it randomly for about 5 weeks, and had to stop half way to do another painting... I would approximate around 35~45hrs.

Notes:
This was an interesting request by an anonymous user who gave me a link to a pretty long story and a single tag: SFW.
I read the story (Which I won't be linking to in this case due to it being NSFW, however if you really want to seek it out read the comments. ), and came up with this idea which is a background event that is only very briefly hinted at in the story.

The original preview sketch I made can be found in my scraps:
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The background painting can be found here:
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Close up of frame:
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Really want to know more about the painting?
Read my "Behind the Art" Post for it: [link]

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