This looks really great Lionus! I like that you included an anchor in the background to go with the song.

To reverseparaphrase Freud, ‘sometimes background can be more than just a background‘.

Maybe he's enlisted just for the cabin boy. lol
Or he's applied for the post of cabin boy.

In the navy....<3

Am I too late to make a "Seaman" joke here?!?!

Ooo what strapping sailor man that lion is. Well done, his hair looks really nice in this one.

Like all completed artworks, one looks back and sees a hundred things that could have been better, or different -- ah well, I'll accwept the compliments none the less. :-D
Thanks, Raitahwal.

I've got quite the phobia of the ocean. Can this guy help..?

I recognise that WWII poetry. I remember years ago taking part in an event titlted "Blitz Day" ; a yearly event for the anniversary of the war, which used to be in aid of Plymouth Age Concern, when most war veterans were still alive.

Actually the text that I posted is the lyrics of the song “Anchors Aweigh” the traditional U.S. Navy anthem.
I think one of the reasons why World War II posters (from both sides) and documentaries of that time tend to fascinate me is that the combatants and the civilians (again from both sides) all had one thing in common -- they believed in their cause. Today people who believe in a cause, or religion seem “alien” to those who take pride in not believing in anything.

“Blitz Day”, a day to commemorate something that when it was happening held the world’s attention. I am glad that TV series like “World at War” gathered together documentary interviews with civilians who at the time suffered under the Blitz since now there are so few from that time left to tell us what it was like.

Signs: "In the navy..." Sorry, couldn't resist ^^

*salutes* To put a spin on that Star Wars phrase if I may: "May the Stars and Stripes be with you!" *waves American flag*

*grins and salutes*

Anchor's Aweigh was actually originally a college football fight song for Annapolis.

I heard a nasty rumor they're remaking the dress blues and whites, but the blues will lose most of their piping flare.

While the iconic “dress blues” uniform will be missed, the uniform of the US sailor and uniforms of other countries military forces has changed to lesser or greater degrees over the two hundred plus years. I hope any changes they might make to the uniforms are not too radical.

*wolf whistles* i like a man in uniform.

also that expression is lovely.

Now that's a sea lion!