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Description "It had started as any other day on the front. Dug into six feet of snow in unstable muddy ground. Tank crews had never missed the hot cabin so much, but due to shortages, the tanks couldn't be run without a reason. A radio message came in around 5 pm saying that Royal Guards had found a weak spot in Shirudo lines, and that a force could quickly break in. The 10th Cavalry with support from Elite Militia was sent in to exploit it. The enemy never had a chance.

Things were so bad for the Shirudo that the slightest show of force sent them routing. We later found many enemy soldiers dying from Scurvy and frostbite abandoned, alongside equipment and ammunition. The air force parasite fighters and airships cleaned up what units did stay around to fight. I wouldn't be surprised if we had pushed 50 standards in before ever facing combat. The lack of civilians was eerie and has led to some retaliation against prisoners, but who am I to judge? I'd do the same given the chance.

Either way, with the North Ghurrka Army putting pressure on the Shirudo in the south, I wouldn't be surprised if they collapse to Nordvest by the spring."

Captain Iudicael Fedelmed, Dwyrain region, First month of 1801.

Just wanted to draw tanks and a winter scene. What do you guys think of the winter effect? Did it look like it was snowing before I told you? Does it feel like nighttime in the picture?

Anywho, enjoy
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Comments: 40

Pachumaster [2016-04-01 22:20:09 +0000 UTC]

really like this

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Ravajava In reply to Pachumaster [2016-04-02 00:13:50 +0000 UTC]

Zanks Have to get back into doing more serious pencil work one of these days... 

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jailgurdnegative [2013-01-26 01:39:38 +0000 UTC]

Can you submit this to the club? Sorry for the hassle.

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Ravajava In reply to jailgurdnegative [2013-01-26 18:47:46 +0000 UTC]

Done

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jailgurdnegative In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-26 23:02:31 +0000 UTC]

yay!

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SirRinge In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-26 19:23:54 +0000 UTC]

How did you get the snow effect??

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Ravajava In reply to SirRinge [2013-01-26 19:43:59 +0000 UTC]

Use one of those white erasers and do strong, quick, powerful lines back and forth

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SirRinge In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-26 20:33:01 +0000 UTC]

Ah... last time I tried to do that erased half the picture xD

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Ravajava In reply to SirRinge [2013-01-28 03:18:40 +0000 UTC]

I guess you gotta use a smaller eraser and make your marks smaller Their isn't a science to perfect unfortunately.

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SirRinge In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-28 07:24:45 +0000 UTC]

Haha... duly noted, thank you xD

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cocobitz [2013-01-16 18:38:21 +0000 UTC]

Fucking Dope as hell man! keep up the excellent work!

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Ravajava In reply to cocobitz [2013-01-16 22:25:39 +0000 UTC]

Zank you kind sir

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cocobitz In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-18 19:37:37 +0000 UTC]

My Pleasure!

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redcomic [2013-01-16 10:32:16 +0000 UTC]

Great feeling!

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Ravajava In reply to redcomic [2013-01-16 22:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Good to hear

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SirRinge [2013-01-14 23:27:37 +0000 UTC]

The snow effect is amazing xD

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Ravajava In reply to SirRinge [2013-01-14 23:34:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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SirRinge In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-14 23:58:14 +0000 UTC]

Heh, np

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NDTwoFives [2013-01-14 18:35:19 +0000 UTC]

The battle tank drawing phenomena is contagious

Indeed, it feels like its snowing, due to the swirly movements of the thin white lines. Nightime doesn't look apparent, since the sky tends to be gray'ish too when snowing during day. Making it a bit darker should help I think.

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Ravajava In reply to NDTwoFives [2013-01-14 18:42:02 +0000 UTC]

They're the cool new thing

That's good. I came to realize that drawing the snow not only would take a long time, but wouldn't be realistic since snow is usually lighter then the landscape. I'll try and make it darker next time, since you can't really add more tone to paper once you've blended with pencil's unfortunately.

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NDTwoFives In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-14 19:25:49 +0000 UTC]

*tablet tablet tablet!

Well, do you have one of those 6B pencils or above? They tend to be very dark with enough pressure.

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Ravajava In reply to NDTwoFives [2013-01-14 20:53:19 +0000 UTC]

I may

I do. It's just that drawing paper has a grain to it, and when you smudge in the colours to give it that sharper look, you flatten the grain, and the paper can't hold on to the graphite anymore. If I had used my 6b the first time though...

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NDTwoFives In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-14 23:35:37 +0000 UTC]

Well, there will always be other occasions in the future

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Ravajava In reply to NDTwoFives [2013-01-14 23:48:11 +0000 UTC]

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WOsmitty [2013-01-14 13:09:23 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic.

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Ravajava In reply to WOsmitty [2013-01-14 18:42:46 +0000 UTC]

Zank you kind sir

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WOsmitty In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-14 23:10:51 +0000 UTC]

You're velcome.

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jailgurdnegative [2013-01-14 11:23:44 +0000 UTC]

"No matter how willing their spirit is, their flesh would always render them weak! Such is humanity's flaw. We have seen this. We relish this weakness. But once they are freed from their weak flesh and their spirit becomes liberated, the humans become unstoppable."

Magna stop being a sore loser... haha,

Awesome drawing Rava! I can't say that I did not see this coming. Winters are quite bad after all.

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Ravajava In reply to jailgurdnegative [2013-01-14 18:35:26 +0000 UTC]

Guy doesn't know when he's at a loss "We may have lost the game by 8 points, but we relish that loss"

Zanks! Scurvy, what happens when you have no friend's in tropical places... Winters can be fun if you do though.

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jailgurdnegative In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-16 13:18:05 +0000 UTC]

He's just ranting on how weak the humans are compared to him. He's really enjoying all the fighting and death. It sort of reminds him of how he treats the people in the Habitats, a planet sized divine structure that is used to pick candidates for the Tranfa.

You'll be having lots of winter friends soon. haha

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Ravajava In reply to jailgurdnegative [2013-01-17 04:09:14 +0000 UTC]

Sounds like a nice guy

Interesting.... didn't know that

Can't wait Albeit, the Corinthians probably can, but me, nope

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jailgurdnegative In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-17 12:51:12 +0000 UTC]

haha, He used to be.

Well, its something I've thought about recently. The Tranfa have been given some amount of lore as to what they are and why to do stuff like going to other worlds for artwar. I'll write a journal about it.

Sorry, but there will be waiting for both of you. I've made little progress to the drawings.

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Kill-Cube-Comicz [2013-01-14 09:01:46 +0000 UTC]

Duuude! I am seeing some great improvement in your overall composition and teh quality of your work from when I first started watching you. xD

Keep up teh great work and give us MOAR tanks.

-vengi

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Ravajava In reply to Kill-Cube-Comicz [2013-01-14 18:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Certianly one of my better recent ones.

Will do

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Funnyshoes123 [2013-01-14 05:01:14 +0000 UTC]

Nice

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Ravajava In reply to Funnyshoes123 [2013-01-14 05:11:04 +0000 UTC]

Zanks

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Stealthflanker [2013-01-14 04:30:09 +0000 UTC]

WW-II setting ?

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Ravajava In reply to Stealthflanker [2013-01-14 04:34:54 +0000 UTC]

Sorta... the soldiers have pre-ww1 equipment, but they also have anti-gravity airships. It's a mix All set in a fictional alternative universe. What's going on here is the equivalent of the Japanese Empire invading Russia in WW2... except Russia never got rid of the monarchy... Shirudo and Corinth are sort of hard to explain briefly.

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Stealthflanker In reply to Ravajava [2013-01-14 17:14:40 +0000 UTC]

well whatever..get that story done first...i can wait for technical details later

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Ravajava In reply to Stealthflanker [2013-01-14 18:36:26 +0000 UTC]

Will do

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