The Rise of Italy - panderingpanderingpandering

Fanart for my own fic. x'D That must be the lamest thing ever, haha. It's in the beginning where Romano is watching Rome burn. For some reason I couldn't get the image out of my head - although it turned out different color-wise here because I'm still experimenting with brushes 'n stuff.

The signs roughly state Maximus and Tetries, the savior of Rome and the man of Pompeii; Attilius, victor of Hilarius and Raecius Felix. The phrases were played around with Google translate because I was too lazy to look it up in my Latin book. I'm pretty sure the first sign is wrong because Virum is a Accusative if I remember correctly, and should just be a Genative. [*Viri, I checked. I'll edit later.] However, I added them for two three reasons: non-subtle pandering to Gladiator which is the movie of all movies with hgnngRussel Crowe and if haven't watched it you Really Really Should Immediately. yes you know who you are. 0_0 -and I thought it was fantastic that ancient Romans actually drew graffiti of their favorite gladiators, like Attilius, Hilarius, Raecius Felix, and Tetries. In a funny way, I think Veneziano and Romano would follow them religiously when they were little. Like the Iron Man kids~ I also needed a way to fill up empty wall space because it looked empty //shot

I colored everything while listening to the Gladiator soundtrack on loop, of course!