  We argue that at moderately large momentum transfer -t <10 GeV^2, hadronic
form factors and wide-angle Compton scattering amplitudes are dominated by
mechanism corresponding to overlap of soft wave functions. We show that the
soft contribution in both cases can be described in terms of the same universal
nonforward parton densities (ND's) F(x;t), which are the simplest hybrids of
the usual parton densities and hadronic form factors. We propose a simple model
for ND's possessing required reduction properties. Our model easily reproduces
the observed magnitude and the dipole t-dependence of the proton form factor
F_1^p(t) in the region 1 GeV^2 < -t < 10 GeV^2. Our results for the wide-angle
Compton scattering cross section follow the angular dependence of existing data
and are rather close to the data in magnitude.
