This is the colored version of an earlier drawing I did of my two characters from the 1940s, Bernice Smith and her lover Howard Thompson. Originally, Bernice was supposed to be a woman who would go on to become one of the Tuskegee Airmen, but I later learned that there wouldn’t have been any female Tuskegee pilots. Still, I thought she and Howard made for a cute couple and wanted to give them some color and a background.
By the way, I absolutely love how Egyptian-esque art deco designs (like the one you see on the wallpaper here) commonly appear.