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Sayuri1314 β The effect of war
Published: 2011-02-11 13:34:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 23249; Favourites: 981; Downloads: 289
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Inspired purely by reading history books. Contrary to what the fandom sometimes think, Finland wasn't home doing the dishes while sweden was at war.I don't know what to say about this... I went a little crazy with the colours? It's also very sloppy made. Sorry, but I'm a lazyass.
There was so many thing in this pic I couldn't daw D: And anatomy, why do you hate me?
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Reference for pose: [link] Β§ion=&q=carrying#/d241ylw
I hope you like...?
Tino and Berwald belongs to
Also, when I showed this to my parents and friends they all pointed to Berwald and asked "Is that you?" WTF people.
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Thank you~
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THIS IS AMAZING! the colours blend so well
i think war art is the best, you can show such emotion with a single picture 
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WHEN I SAW THIS I DIED. OF AWESOMENESS OVERLOAD.
NO KIDDING.
SERIOUSLY. MY EYES ARE BLURRY AND THEY'RE TEARING UP.
Okay, no doubt THIS. IS THE BEST THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER.
And, what war were you reading about that inspired you to do this? XD I'm a history nut, but I have zero knowledge about everything that happened before the present. And even if I read my encyclopedias...nothing ever seeps in. SO TELL MEEEEEEE please?
Andsorryfortheoverlylongcomment but I'm seriously WOWING over this.
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O_O
I-I think you're overdoing the praising here (Really, you make me way too full of myself ////) But I'm glad you like! Thank you!
Forgive me for being so lame, but I didn't really have a specific war in mind. 
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No worries, please do
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oh god i can't imagine the number of dishes piled up when they got home! D:
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why did i comment this twice D;
why am i so retarded lol
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jesus christ where do you live, why are you up so early lol
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pfft, I'm not in USA, I'm Swedish. Here it's 12:20(PM), I'm in the middle of lunch break in school.
What's the time in your place?
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oh..
its 7:34 am here xD
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HAHAH WHAT I WISH I WAS CONFUSED FOR BERWALD D:
(inappropriate caps)
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pffft but it's weird. Yes, I'm slightly tallish, I have glasses and short blond hair but... I'm supposed to be a woman.
and I don't really have his face... -_-;
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i hate when that happens.
then you're like, "am i really that bad..?"
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Just wait, I'm planning to cut my hair even shorter. Then I will definetly suceed in preventing any male from finding me attractive
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O:
maybe some pretty girls will like you!
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Well I pretty much am already xD
Problem solved!
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It's really awesome, you have a great style, the expressions says alot
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I'm glad to hear that! Thank you
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The dark/light sides of the picture are absolutely brilliant. Having the gray and yellow/orange contrast really depicts the darker sides of war, reminding the viewer of both death, fires, and the sunset idea is tied up there so brilliantly. Maybe the gray could have been darker on the left side, but that could have ruined the balance of the piece. Anyway, the colors are brilliant, and I thought that they looked quite deliberate, rather than sloppy. Or, rather, the watercolor effect helps to soften what otherwise would be a grim picture, indeed.
Picking up on the anatomy ~deepwoodwayfinder noticed, I think the 'weightlessness' could be solved by having Tino's back resting more firmly against Berwald's hand. Right now we see much more of his glove than we probably would. Finland's pose is a little stiff, for example the arm closest to the reader is not following the direction of gravity, but holding the eye on their bodies. The tension, however, works, as Tino could be tensing himself through the pain (someone needs his laudanum, but I wouldn't trust field hospitals, either).
Speaking of trusting hospitals, I was wondering what reference was being used for the clothing. I'm trying to locate this in a specific war, and Sweden has been using uniforms since the Thirty Years' War, but I don't know if that extended to the hakkapeliitat or not.
Yar. I think that the angle on the ground is just plain fantastic. Again, it pulls the viewer's eye into the two without placing them front and center, and gives the loading to the 'dark' side of the picture. I also love how the tilt of the flag intercepts the eye in case the viewer went too far, and skipped over the soft-hearted soldier, and his strong cavalryman.
Finally, on a more character driven note: The expressions are just fantastic. Sweden is made of a caring that would somehow fail to come off as well as it does if not for the fact that Finland is out of it, and therefore can't see him. Anyway, this is wonderful, and I'm glad to have seen it.
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Ooh, thank you for all the support, both the useful critique and the praise! I'm very glad you like! This made my day :')
I'm going to be honest with you, the referencing could have been done better by me. Finland is dressed as a hakkapeliitta, a special type of finnish soldier, and Sweden is a karolin, a soldier from the swedish karolian army (can you say that) from the early 1700. I don't know if they coexisted though, so I was lazy with the historical references. I'm sorry
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As far as I know the hakkapeliitta were only around during the Thirty Years War, as an exclusively Finnish light cavalry unit. They were created by Gustavus Adolphus (like everything else from the Thirty Years' War), and haven't been mentioned in anything I've read since then. I think this might have been because of some of the army reforms that were passed during the Empire, but I'm not an expert on this.
1700s uniform means Great Northern War, and given what the Finns experienced during the Wrath, I think this is actually safer to pretend that this is during the Thirty Years' War.
Sorry. I'm a dork about the bloody parts of European history. This really is a gorgeous picture, the references don't matter because the point of the picture is to inform about Finland's toughness, and war stuff, not the pure, down to the exact date history.
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Ohh, I see, thank you for the history lesson! 
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This is lovely! I really like the colors
(also, the Swedish version of that song sounds soo freaking cool!)
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Thank you
(You think so? :3 )
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(Yes (OMG I WAS THINKING OH SNAP), I love hearing songs in other languages, and seeing how they differ from the one I'm most used to)
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Yeah, I love to do that as well! :'D There are so many pretty languages out there!
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And then there's English and the 'Deep South' dialect :I
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We must stereotype you in some way, no?
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Haha, I don't mind the stereotype, I just don't find it very appealing to the ear.
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Who does that anyway? Stereotypes are evil.
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I suppose I kinda am used to people stereotyping me, mainly because my mom does it all the time
I just laugh though, some are just so silly!
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Indeed they are! 
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