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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







info: this piece was started over two years ago and sat as a concept (~40% done) during that time until a few weeks ago when I decided I had mastered light enough to make it look the way I wanted it. still got a ways to go until I'm there, but the march continues.

help please: tear it apart for fixes. a free commission to the most thorough critic.

sorry it's been so long, i have been working on several pieces simultaneously.
much larger file available, let me know if you want it.

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:iconomine:
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.
:icontjdlegend:
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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:icontheastro:
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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:iconkodyyoung:
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! =D

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:iconalexeikazansky:
Soldier in upper-left hand corner.

What da hell is he doing?!

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:icontheastro:
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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:iconalexeikazansky:
Maybe you should've drawn him looking into the barrel... or have his fist positioned to strike the rifle.

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Stalin demonstrated how one must rule.
Khrushchev demonstrated that any idiot can rule.
Brezhnev demonstrated that any idiot is not capable of ruling.
:iconsuperspud:
This is incredible. Very atmospheric indeed. I shall be adding this to my requests list :)

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:icondensity-tmr:
An excellent and very well detail/composed artwork. a special mention for the excellent clouds that really create great mood.

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