Artist's commentary
USS Enterprise CV-6 (Revised)
Finally, the official establishment of Enterprise is finished!
The rigging is approximately the classic state of 1942.6. Pairing with the determined sister of Yorktown's illustration, she was finally painted with a strong fighting spirit.
Enterprise is a child with an open mind and a strong desire to win. Perhaps thanks to the example of Yorktown, she would converge her laziness, but she still liked the sunny days spent with the Lexington sisters in Pearl, far away from her sister.
Compared to Yorktown, Enterprise is always lively and optimistic-if her eyes have not been dyed the color of revenge. She likes to eat sweets and to constantly add sugar to her coffee. Compared to Yorktown, who had gained her life-costing experiences in the Coral Sea, she had her times of getting confused-but the sacrifices and fighting of her heroic aircraft made her name unforgettable in this ocean. Although Halsey failed to watch all of this, the glory that belonged to her did arrive.
But it would be too early to take such a battle as her footnote. Her journey will be extremely wide, and the hardships in her destiny have not yet come.
As the ship girl I have painted the most, her image is always so familiar to me, but when I speak of it, it seems to be at the tip of my tongue... Maybe just a glance at her history will tell you what a huge burden she had on her shoulders.
I want to draw her smiling more often. I do.