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BoxofLizards — Insect Charter Color Sketch
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Published: 2015-11-07 04:26:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 489; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 0
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I wanted to play around with color and lighting, while also exploring with battleships in the Insect Charter. I scavenged the background from an unfinished drawing and used it in this one. for a quick sketch this came out pretty cool, though I could use some work on water :/Related content
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Watching your drawings is always like seeing several worlds come to life in one place, it's amazing~
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Oh why thank you very kindly, that means alot! 
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You're always welcome. C= I see, I'm glad you had fun then! Sometimes it's fun to experiment to~
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This is wonderful! What did you base that battleship on?
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Thanks. I took inspiration from the Russian Battleship Pobeda and the U.S.S Brooklyn as I find ships from that era so interesting. Partly due to the fact many of those ship were considered out of date upon completion, but also their cost to build is crazy to imagine that during WW1 there was only like one Major battle that was fought (Jutland). In which battleships went head to head and like what some imagined it was costly both in lives and money. one was that many of those ship had a flaw that would cause them to explode, I think it was that if the turret was hit thus causing the magazines to ignite.
I think I might do a few more sketches on battleships because of that idea of being a costly behemoth. 
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I have just started watching you yesterday and it was already worth it
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Why thank you
Since I am talking about ships in the last reply, here is fun fact. During the battle of Jutland (WW1) the hit ratio for those ship was like only 1-4%.
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I love the history of both world wars, both felt different from any other war, the first one ,you could say is what brought most of the world into the 20th century (old tactics were replaced by new ones, camoflage became a thing and it pushed the technology greatly forward) but the second one was what fully decited europe's fate.
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I know it is crazy how the world of the 19th century was violently thrown into the 20th, which even today we are still feeling the after shocks of it. Imagine how in 1914 you had people dressed as if they came out of the Napoleonic Wars, and by wars end you had many of the same tactics that would be used in the second.
I think you could get more technical (Economic level) and say 1914 was the death of Europe's fate that was dealt the blown in WW2. I think it (correct me if I am wrong) Europe was at its most powerful (wealthy) pre 1914 which even today cannot match up to it, though I think I remember reading that in the "Capital in the 21st century". Heck Britain was paying in Gold at wars start and by 1915 it was taking out loans (American Banks) for its allies which had terrible credit. Before the London Merchant Banks was the place to do trade if need to build ships and buy goods.
Heck If was a Victorian super villain, I am looking at you Moriarty in LoEG and Sherlock GoS 
Hey while writing this popped in my head, have heard of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History? He did like a five parter on the First World War which is by far one of my favorite coverages on the topic in recent memory
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Europe was powerful indeed, the colonies in Africa and the British colonies all over the globe were lost, it is crazy'not to mention that due to the economic struggles in Germany and the NSDAP getting into power because of that we even had a Second World War (and I try not to think about all the beautiful buildings that were destroyed during the conflict).
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Yeah, imagine if the Ottoman Empire still existed for a few more years after WW1, because not long after Oil was discovered in what is Saudi Arabia. Then Ottoman's would have been like Germany after their unification in 1871, a Super Power overnight. The rise of fascism and other groups was a very interesting period. Yeah It is crazy that if you only took the Eastern Front in WW2 it would still be one of bloodiest conflict in history.
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I think that Hitler did good for germany before the war but to say it in my people's tongue "Der Führer war ein verdammter Idiot, er hatte seine Vergeltungswaffen und wäre er nicht so auf London fokussiert gewesen wäre hätte er sie viel besser einsetzen können."
I bet if he had waited with his invasion of Poland for a couple more years he could have had a much better chance of winning the war... The final solution was a terrible thing (and a waste of potential soldiers) but I think Hitler was more than that (he was a good artist by the way: bilder.augsburger-allgemeine.d… )
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Maybe though I think it would have been hard to have postpone such ambitions in Europe and Africa, as the US would still have had a embargo over Japan over its occupation in the Indo-chinese coast. Thus the US would have been drawn into a war with Japan and I think Germany would have followed into a war regardless. Not to mention The secret pact with Russia would have dissolved when they would have invaded Poland, as the two had such non compromising ideologies (during the time) so they would have clashed over time. But Germany would still have had gone to war because of Japan and the US and other powers.
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I still think that with a little more time they could have refined their weapons and tech to be better prepared for the war, have you heard of the YouTube channel 'the alternate history hub'? They there like to explore such topics: www.youtube.com/channel/UClfEh…
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Yeah I have heard of that crazy!!
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It is crazy that we have so many overlapping interrests
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Now you only have to tell me that you like to wear ties
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