Image: IWM (Q 87442) Highly Decorated NCO Of The 119th Infantry Regiment In Front Of His Dugout, Complete

Two of the most beautiful tank men

you guys deserve the same updates as the huge audience of 97 people over on ig you can't tell me otherwise

i'm hoping i can make an official and updated bäumer reveal in the near future but nothing is official and updated enough if it's not for a project done in like 2 days

sketch vs final

thank you to my wonderful mutual on here for giving me a shout-out!!

go read their post on drawing german steel helmets, they raise some good points (websites like sketchfab really are your best friend!!) and check out their beautiful work if you haven't already

hi! i really like your wwi art! i was wondering if there’s any tips for drawing helmets? specifically german helmets (im doing an art project about all quiet on the western front)? thank you for your time!

hiiii anon ty for enjoying my work!! your question makes me a little nervous bc i am really uh not good at drawing helmets. esp the stahlhelms…. but i will try to give u at least a little bit of insight to how i approach them!

um did u know? the stahlhelm is actually my worst enemy. it’s such a fucking stupid shape i hate hate hate. the side view is p iconic and recognizable but oof that front view just kills me. u have this HUGE semi rounded dome on top and then a bit of an angle once u get to the skirt/visor. no matter how u view it u can see the distinct way the skirt pokes outward, i think thats rly important to getting the shape right. i know i sound like a broken record but reference is reaaally ur best pal. google, pinterest, books, ppl are big fans of stahlhelms (some for…. iffy reasons) so u can find a lot of them online

one thing that has super helped me has been looking up 3d models! sketchfab or turbosquid r the ones i browse the most…. its rly useful to b able to rotate the whole thing and see its full shape, not just the one angle u get from a picture! that also helps ur brain visualize it as a full 3d object, which translates into a drawing (the more u study it/look at ref the better u will understand how it sits irl)

urgh okay. and then just examples of how ive drawn them. but again! peep that distinct angle! idk some of these r more successful and others r ummmmmmm. truly u can see how i use shading to just completely cover the areas im not confident with haha. rly examining these i can just see how wack the shape of these helmets are…..

oh also i would recommend checking out @/thespookedookie here on tumblr, they do some seriously incredible work centered around ww1 and aqotwf! they r a great source of inspo i love their art and style and everything

ok thats rly all i got! i’m sorry im not more helpful, u caught me in the middle of a series of bad days so i am not at my best or most coherent. but i hope this can help with your project in any sort of way! feel free to send any more questions u have, i will try to get to them in a timely manner :)

hey guys this project is so cooked but here's a bit of that test page i ended up completely changing the layout of

trying to figure out shadows and midtones

redraw, original

i'm honestly pretty stupid for thinking that after spending 2 weeks working on a huge painting and destroying my wrist i'd have motivation for anything else

Listen ik the 2022 movie isnt great as an adaptation but fuck if the actors didn't have such a great chemistry you mourn them All the same. Also every time i re-read the book All i see are the Paul and Kat from the film and idk how to feel about that. Ramble over.

BRO THIS

to me, one of the strongest aspects of this movie was the actors, i think they did an amazing job, especially felix kammerer, with this being his first film, and worked quite nicely together

i have to say myself that the two mains with their portrayal of kat and paul looked so eerily similar to what i had in my head as i was reading the book that i got creeped out a bit when i saw the movie lmao

one christmas when i was about eight i asked my grandparents to get me all the wimpy kid books that were out at the time and proceeded to binge all of them during winter break

hands down best christmas i've had in the past 10 years of my life

Younger me didn’t know that I’ll end up in an abyss.

hey guys i'm listening to opera and struggling real bad with drawing this week