Here's my first sketchs of Hawke crawling through the foliage. Once I had the poae and the uniform right I placed it into the   narrow portrait space 17cm x 36cm deep and added the other elements of the story.

The soldier describes his pleasure in putting on fresh socks. I drew a trench in the shape of a sock.

The client preferred to see Hawke take up more of the area for impact so I made the adjustment and moved onto the colour stage.

I decided on the colour palette and added texture to the leaves.

Once the textures were in I tried a red colour on the lower half of the image giving the client an option..