Celebrating the Fourth of July the traditional way...with the irresponsible use of explosives

And to add to the punnery, lets put a huge firecracker next to a POO* emoji (displaying an appropriately terrified expression). Just don't be in the splatter zone, m'kay?

I sketched this at my artist-alley table during Anthrocon 2019. Initially a throwaway joke display piece for my table (let's face it, it's an old pun) prompted by the date placement of the con, I later got the idea to color it and post it next July 4 for shi...

...well, you get the idea

(why didn't I just type the word...I put it in the picture uncensored, didn't I?)

Anyway since I did this at a con, it was a pencil sketch scanned and given the digital once-over, bringing us next to...

Technical:
This is a really simplistic pic, I didn't learn anything with this one, just revisited some previous techniques I've used off and on. Since the burning fuse was intended to be the primary light source, I dropped a flat grey layer over the whole pic in Multiply mode, and airbrushed white anyplace I wanted lit. A Screen layer made the flame pop out with some airbrushed yellow around it for a nice glow. The pole on the left was supposed to be a hydrant, but I concluded that little that would identify it as such would be visible at this low angle, so I threw down some bricks in the backdrop and finished the rest of the sidewalk setting, being that curbside seems the most logical place to blow up a turd, right? Text was exported to Micrografx Picture Publisher as an image in order to apply the thick border, as for some reason MPP doesn't render .odf fonts, and the true-type version of "Burbank Big Cd Blk" (i.e. the Fortnite font) is payware.

Pencil on bristol, scanned and processed with Krita 4.3.0. Eleven layers, 326MB in-application, 22MB on-disk. One hour 39 minutes total editing time according to Krita's internal project timer. Project ID: 483

*(if you're curious as to why I capitalized "poo", look up Dirty Potter on YouTube and listen to a few chapters)