Few things in life are more comfortable than being in the warm embrace of a loved one, as both partners in this couple can attest.
It’s been a while since I last did a couple like this. I would draw them much more often in the past, but over time they’ve appeared less regularly in my artistic output. I am not sure why. Maybe it’s because doing romantic art like this isn’t perceived as traditionally manly, even though I’ve never been a stereotypical macho “alpha male”. I guess even dudes like me are a little too worried about living up to conventional ideals about gender.
Oh, well, I like doing this kind of art anyway, and I am happy to have returned to it.
If you’re wondering what cultures these two are from, he is a Norseman from Scandinavia and she is from the medieval West African kingdom of Wagadou (sometimes called Ghana, despite being located further north in the region than modern Ghana).