~ Stalingrad Boards... ~

(Continued from the last post.)

(Maybe a line here in the 3rd panel from the scar-faced lieutenant like: "Heh, I keep forgetting - the point of all this is to go home - right?")


(Yelling at the lieutenant in the 2nd panel: "What the hell are you doing?!"; Lieutenant: "Not enough time for him to reload and shoot straight." 3rd panel: [shot ricochets of wall] "See?")

And off they go to a presumably worse position than this, with the Lieutenant on a death wish binge.

So the sequential got past the 3-panel mark. Hoorah for pushing myself during work hours... I mean... after work hours... Yes.

As one coworker knows, there's a color piece that kind of accompanies this. Will see if I can channel the ghost of Rembrandt or Sargent over this next week and get the thing done.

~ Robots and Germans... ~

Because the two are interchangeable at times. The parts, I mean.

The Armored Core and Front Mission series have been getting some heavy rotation at the house lately. So, naturally, these wind up on my work warm-up sketches...

Was trying to come up with some different approaches to legs and feet, since I tend to use the same balance and shapes in this area. Hard to break out of that while thinking in terms of mechanical functionality at the same time:
Everyone loves robots. Just look:

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And a quick something revolving around Stalingrad. Don't know if it'll go past these few panels. I tend to do these as warm-ups to try to get the cinematic blood flowing through the brain:

~ Ende ~