My Peter Pan homage.

I wanted to show Peter alone. At the end of the story, everyone is gone from Neverland and Peter is so stubborn that he won't go back to reality with Wendy, even though they both care for each other very much. He does come back for her once a year in the spring, but what does he do until then? I sort of felt sorry for Peter at the end of the novel. He's very special, he has much more than any other child; going on adventures, being able to fly. But these things come with a price, if he leaves Neverland, they will go away, Peter will have to go to school, and grow up. Even so, he is so set in his ways that he won't be with the one he cares for, and is very much alone. His "biggest pretend."

I don't think I quite explained how I felt there, I hope the painting speaks for itself.

I depicted Peter Pan as he was in the 2003 live action movie. Jeremy Sumpter looked more like the Peter I invisioned than Disney's stupid green-costumed Peter with the feather in his hat. A lot of the detail was lost in the resizing though, which I regret. I painted this on a fairly large scale/resolution, I'd like to have a print made.

Comments and crit encouraged because I'm trying some new things in Photoshop, trying to make it more like real life painting.

~6 hours
Digitally painted in Adobe Photoshop 7
artwork copyright © Adam Welker