While working as a gas station attendant in early 2000, one of my favorite customers was an older gentleman named Charlie that always came in to buy Camel Regular (non-filter) cigarettes and looked as though he stepped right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Around this time, I was doing a fair amount of experimentation with digital painting using Photoshop and would often scan pencil sketches I made into the computer to color them digitally. While experimenting with creating the look of a Rockwell painting digitally, it only seemed appropriate to use the sketch I had done of Charlie.