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TheAstro — Apocalypse Please
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Published: 2008-02-24 20:24:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4725; Favourites: 107; Downloads: 86
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Rock the 100th Deviation
"It's time
for something Biblical."
Magnus Riksvald
The Seventh Son
September 1918
survivor of the Argonne Forest
thanks for any and all critique.
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Comments: 38
Incredible work! so much atmosphere and detail to the piece. very good attention to detail
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all in a day's due diligence
nothing worse than finding a Thompson in a Great War epic, or the moon out of phase during the one of the crucial birth contractions of the new world military monster.
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If you like crazy war art like this, you should check out the early work of Austin Osman Spare. He did some really cool stuff during WW1.
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YES. thanks dude, this is excellent
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i think it would be hardcore if the guy in the center had some bullet holes in him.
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he would except that he's got divine favor...escapes the War without a scratch
but yeah, a berserker mortally wounded is always hardcore
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WRONG [but funny] and wrong. Thissus the The Great War, you know, the first one?
it had more sandbags, bayonets, gas, cylindrical water-fed MGs, and 1918s than WWII.
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Hmm, Hells Angels or The Rum Diary is good too..If you like HST work, you'll no doubt like those two.
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yeah, i enjoyed the Rum Dairy, i'll try to check out Hell's Angels
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Awesome work on this! I can sit and look at this for hours but the nightmares would start again
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that's the fear talking, man
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I think you're right..A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth... But no one should be asked to handle this trip.
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haha, that's my favorite line from that entire film
what's your favorite book of his? my friend is bragging that he's been reading a whole bunch of good stuff back in the States and I gotta keep pace
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awesome work. amazing scene with incredible atmosphere.
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Hi
I have featured this deviation in my journal as a thumbnail because I like it and want my watchers to see it.
If you object to your work being displayed in this manor - I have every respect for you and will remove it as soon as I receive a note from you asking me to remove it.
Keep up the really great work.
Andy
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all i can say is I love it....would look great with a splash of crimson blood....only a bit from the gun shot....would bring it out amazingly i think....
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thanks, trying to restrict myself to black and white for this project but i agree the crimson would add a nice kick
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the black and white does give it the perfect look, but as i said for the extra umph.....but great job anywho.....
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An excellent and very well detail/composed artwork. a special mention for the excellent clouds that really create great mood.
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thanks, clouds one of my favorite things to paint.
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This is incredible. Very atmospheric indeed. I shall be adding this to my requests list
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thanks a lot - background used to put me off but it actually takes a minimal amount of effort to get something down back there which accentuates the main action
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Soldier in upper-left hand corner.
What da hell is he doing?!
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meh, the guy in the top left is supposed to be frantically trying to get his gun to un-jam (was trying to get that across but had few good ideas; he's not even pulling on the bolt - i should/will fix this)
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Maybe you should've drawn him looking into the barrel... or have his fist positioned to strike the rifle.
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All I can say is that you've done a kick ass job here, very detailed and historically accurate. The ability to bayonet some one and pistol whip the others seems a bit off, but to think of it, once the bayonet was lodged into that German's shoulder, he could have whipped out his pistol on the other two advancing on him.
So, from what I can see, this is an amazing job Astro!
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I am not qualified to give this an advance critique. But I really enjoy the dark feeling of this one. The moon shining on the clouds is great. Love the clouds. The silhouettes of the 3 guys behind the main character look like they are too close to be just silhouettes, in my very humble opinion. Great work!!
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first off let me just say excellent excellent you finally finished it and it looks amazing...now to tear it apart slightly...the guys on the far right near the bottom of the page look like one's head is growing out of the other guy and the guy in the top left looks kind of out of sorts with his gun maybe doing something impractical i dunno maybe its the way he's holding the gun and my last suggestion for change would be to take out the two flashes of light in the middle of the clouds (the small ones) they look more like measuring or marking points, they don't really need to be there but otherwise amazing job and the shadowing on the sand bags is amazing as well as the soldiers in the smoke in the background that is my second favorite part (the violence being the first favorite). the guy missing his eye in the left bottom corner looks very real i like his expression...
p.s. i want the larger version of this.
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yeah, finally done, damn; took a lot longer than i wanted it to. this is getting zero response from people - does the composition look messy zoomed out or cheesy zoomed in?
guy in the top left is supposed to be frantically trying to get his gun to un-jam (was trying to get that across but had few good ideas), the two flashes are too distracting, i only left them in because they form, along with a couple other points in the composition, a pentagram which is all satany and stuff and i didn't intend it but thought it was sort of cool... maybe i'll dim them a bit or take them out altogether, i dunno.
i want to go back and revise some of my pieces - i can see a bunch of quick fixes just by looking at stuff from the early days of tablet - see if you would be so kind as to suggest any pieces you'd particularly like to see fixed up. also, give me assignments via email, scan/photo quick sketches/concepts for me to finish, facial expressions, etc. i need speed practice.
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