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Published: 2007-09-24 12:03:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 141978; Favourites: 4388; Downloads: 5046
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Some personal work after all those ships. Restfull evening in the Baghdad city. I hope that there will be more such a days without the killing. So hope you'll like it because slightly optimistic.I played with the light in sligtly different way than on my last pictures. I wanted to paint some refracting ligt in darker street, but its not easy. I used refrence for the APC Stryker and the characters, hope they look realistic.
All done in photoshop as usually+ wacom intuos. Time spend was about 25 hours.
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SO much detail in your work. i honestly cant believe it. ive just looked through your gallery and realized the art youve created are exactly the kind that i made this account to look for. good job!
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Im glad to hear that. thanks a lot
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Was no killing in Baghdad last time I was there in 2009 well at least no killing by my unit or any US Forces I knew of.
A few notes at least for Baghdad more trash, a woman would not be by herself the power wires should have at least triple the number of wires and be tangled up. The stryker is good but a camo net on top as well as air guards in the open hatches. not sure what year this was but my unit had rules against having a flag attached to the vehicle. lastly in theater stryker units paint over the bumper numbers so that they cant be identified on an individual basis.
should also be unit patches on the soldiers and 2nd ID rarely uses the M249 with full stock. Also if I had come up on this situation I would have ass chewed both those soldiers for having there weapons slung on there backs especially the MG thats an accident waiting to happen.
alot of times if things were calm and we were stopped like this we would be flooded with children wanting candy, soda, Gatorade or anything else they could talk us out of. most of them saw our strykers as the equivalent of an Ice cream track.
If you ever do another one of these I would love see it. I spent two years total there 2007 and 2009. the people are an interesting bunch if only ruled a bit much by the might makes right mentality but we havent done much to disprove that ourselves.
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very nicely done, great perspective and do love how you used the cage armor system.
sadly it seems that no killing in Baghdad is about as likely as no rain in the rainforest
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Whoa. That's absolutely fantastic! *faints* Wish I could do this.
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Let's hope that there's nobody with a grenade or RPG on a rooftop nearby.
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Another Fast Fave
I Could Look At Your Artwork All Day Long
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Whoa! thats awesome! My favorite IFV/aPC!
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hello there, if you dont mind, could i post this and the blackhawks picture, which you did fantastic on, in my group, MILITARYfreaks?
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MARINE CORPS SERGEANT MAJOR HERE!!! GIVE EM HELL AMERICA!!! NO MERCY!!! WIPE EM ALL OUT!!!!
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I love it !!!!
Finally, a Stryker art I always wanted to see !!!
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nice shit, im in a stryker unit now, 2 scr in vilseck germany... nice job bro
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really good, makes me think of game development art
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As a combat veteran of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (though I was in Mosul and a little place called Rawah, not Baghdad personally), I think this is very realistic and terrifingly beautiful at the same time (as all war machines are both terrifying and beautiful at the same moment to me!). The only critique I would have regarding realism is the manner in which the soldiers are standing smoking without carrying their rifles at the ready, as no soldier outside the wire would stand like that without their rifle ready (too easy to get ambushed). Other than that, with each Stryker being configured individually beyond the basic armor package and communications configuration, its fantastic. I love how your color pallet isn't the 'green' that the Stykers are painted, but instead shows the reality of the desert, and the coating of talcum powder 'moon dust' that paints the vehicles for the duration!
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Haha, 'moon dust' - as a space guy that knows exactly what that means - lol
Hey, shouldn't the woman be wearing a Burhka? I thought that was required, or is that just unmarried or married women or something?...
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No, she is still a girl, most of the women required to wear burka's are old enough to be married off. Its also a sign of maturity for women.
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thanks for the info, its good to hear it from somebody who was there, and she is really a smaller girl so doesn't need to cover her face.
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Hi, I love your work! If you don't mind, I created a tribute to this art piece. It's a literal translation from your 2D work into a 3D medium. I hope you don't mind. You can find it at my site at [link]
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