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After three long and painful months of work, “Deviation No. 33” is finally completed…I need a vacation.

Three months ago I had this idea. The world’s opinions on these people have changed a lot since then and I feared that this picture would no longer be relevant. Given that that is not the case, I don’t know whether to feel good or bad about it.

Four men, four countries as their helms of power and four objects: A sword, a bow, measuring scales and scythe. I thought somebody would have figured it out by now.

ANSWER:The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Some of you probably did but didn’t bother to tell me. The dead giveaway were these deviations in my favorites.

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Now that it is finally done, I have no compunction of revealing the true purpose and motive of making this picture.

You know, this picture was originally supposed to be funny but, unless you’re a fan of George Carlin, some things are only funny as long as they aren’t true.

Back in my High School days, I had a little call sign that people could recognize me by:

“Apocalypse now? Ask me how!”

I wasn’t the social type all that much. I did some things to people I’m not proud of and I was feared by most of the school. The fault is my own because back then I just didn’t care how I presented myself to people. That phrase meant that if you desired to make all hell break loose or just stir up a ruckus, you could ask me how to get it done. I didn’t really do anything destructive, it was just a catchphrase and since some of my friends won’t let it die, I decided to use it as the basis of my next deviation.

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” was a phrase that kept popping up in books and other forms of entertainment, but I didn’t truly understand what it meant. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered that they are biblical figures, the harbingers of doom for all humanity. Conquest, War, Famine and Death. If you really wanted the shit to hit the fan, you could ask these guys!

I decided to make a picture of the four horsemen, so I look in the archives of deviantART for inspiration. Most of the visualizations of these characters are hooded and cloaked, never showing their true face. My picture was going to break the trend and use real live people to personify them. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the 21st Century” if you will.

I did my research (watching Fox News ) on finding the four most infamous and dangerous people on the planet today. Hassan Nasrallah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il and Osama bin Laden, would be my four horsemen.

As I began drawing the initial sketches (which now seems like years ago -_-; ), I studied more on these people and began to find their similarities to their characters on a high number. The object of the picture itself had changed dramatically, from being comical, to being fact-based fiction.

[NOTE]
The order in which the Four Horsemen appear has been altered. Firstly, in respect of interrelations between these individuals. Nasrallah and bin Laden are of different religious movements and are at either side of the lineup, Ahmadinejad was suspected to have supplied rockets to Hezbollah during the conflict in July 2006 and Kim Jong-Il is just following the order. Secondly to how great of a threat they should be considered, from left to right.

1.) The Horseman of War (Hassan Nasrallah)
This choice was driven primarily by the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last summer but also the more recent internal conflicts between the Lebanon government and Hezbollah. One quote from Nasrallah in particular sealed his fate as my ‘Horseman of War’ :

“No army in the world can make us drop the weapons from our hands!”

2.) The Horseman of Conquest (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Probably better known as the ‘Antichrist’ or ‘False Prophet’, Ahmadinejad fits the role as he tries to convince the world that Iran’s nuclear program is for peaceful applications only. It would have been President Bush to take this role, but that would be a major stereotype.

3.) The Horseman of Famine (Kim Jong-Il)
Originally chosen for the fact that in his mad pursuit of nuclear armament, he is letting his people starve to death, the “Dear Leader” is noted for many violations of human rights while he enjoys many luxuries, especially foreign movies. Were things possibly any better under the rule of his father, Kim-Il Sung?

4.) The Horseman of Death (Osama Muhammed Awad bin Laden)
I don’t think I have to explain this one. A man whom we had trained to be a survivor and financed to fight off Soviet occupation during the Cold War now directs his weapons at us. A man who has taken responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Americans, not just on 9/11 and who earnestly wishes the death of Western Civilization and everyone in it. It truly comes as a shock to me that he is all but forgotten in the public eye and we are not putting enough effort to find him.

What I noticed a lot on deviantART is that most political figures seem only to be defiled with reckless abandon and not focusing on the elements on what exactly makes these people so despicable. I wanted to avoid that and actually try to pose them in way that would capture their true face. Make them as human and unappealing as they really are.

Politics, in general, doesn’t seem to be such a hot topic on the site. The prototypes for this picture and 'Profile of a Traitor' rank pretty low in my gallery. I’m a person who is observant of what is going on in the real world. I like to imagine things within a plane of reality and that I what I set out to do with this.

Even I do not know why this took so long to complete. It was a collection of grievances that made this the headache it was. Honestly, I think the devil himself was on my ass about this picture with all the bad stuff that kept happening, especially when I was working on it.

This is the epitome of my “lineart” style. You know those outlines of the countries that I put up for download in my “Scraps”? I actually retraced those from original maps bit by bit, North Korea being the worst.

The quality of the sketches were really bad and more time had to be devoted to actually redraw entire portions of the characters. It was my own damn fault because I aimed to do most of the work on the computer and I believed it could be done much sooner.

Regardless of how this deviation is accepted by the community, I am going to retire this art style. It is not time-efficient, primitive and, in a way, redundant. In the three months I devoted to this POS, many of you have already pushed out dozens of better deviations, thanks to your fancy image-editing programs. I can afford them now, but my laptop can’t even handle a single video download from YouTube, let alone possibly being able to run such programs.

So until I get a new computer for my own, I going to stick with my 'Traditional Art' style. Working with just a pencil and paper gives me much more capacity for creativity and the stats show most of my HD (Hand-Drawn) pictures are the popular ones.

This was my last ace in the hole, the very reason I kept on going for over three months. I just kept telling myself, “Wait till Deviation No. 33 is finally done. It will be the one to blow them away!“ but now, I really don’t care if it gets noticed much or not. I don’t draw just to have my work liked by the masses. I do it to express my ideals on certain topics. The kind of things that nobody else could or would draw.

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After three long and painful months of work, “Deviation No. 33” is finally completed…I need a vacation.

Three months ago I had this idea. The world’s opinions on these people have changed a lot since then and I feared that this picture would no longer be relevant. Given that that is not the case, I don’t know whether to feel good or bad about it.

Four men, four countries as their helms of power and four objects: A sword, a bow, measuring scales and scythe. I thought somebody would have figured it out by now.

ANSWER:The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Some of you probably did but didn’t bother to tell me. The dead giveaway were these deviations in my favorites.

[link]

[link]

Now that it is finally done, I have no compunction of revealing the true purpose and motive of making this picture.

You know, this picture was originally supposed to be funny but, unless you’re a fan of George Carlin, some things are only funny as long as they aren’t true.

Back in my High School days, I had a little call sign that people could recognize me by:

“Apocalypse now? Ask me how!”

I wasn’t the social type all that much. I did some things to people I’m not proud of and I was feared by most of the school. The fault is my own because back then I just didn’t care how I presented myself to people. That phrase meant that if you desired to make all hell break loose or just stir up a ruckus, you could ask me how to get it done. I didn’t really do anything destructive, it was just a catchphrase and since some of my friends won’t let it die, I decided to use it as the basis of my next deviation.

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” was a phrase that kept popping up in books and other forms of entertainment, but I didn’t truly understand what it meant. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered that they are biblical figures, the harbingers of doom for all humanity. Conquest, War, Famine and Death. If you really wanted the shit to hit the fan, you could ask these guys!

I decided to make a picture of the four horsemen, so I look in the archives of deviantART for inspiration. Most of the visualizations of these characters are hooded and cloaked, never showing their true face. My picture was going to break the trend and use real live people to personify them. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the 21st Century” if you will.

I did my research (watching Fox News ) on finding the four most infamous and dangerous people on the planet today. Hassan Nasrallah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il and Osama bin Laden, would be my four horsemen.

As I began drawing the initial sketches (which now seems like years ago -_-; ), I studied more on these people and began to find their similarities to their characters on a high number. The object of the picture itself had changed dramatically, from being comical, to being fact-based fiction.

[NOTE]
The order in which the Four Horsemen appear has been altered. Firstly, in respect of interrelations between these individuals. Nasrallah and bin Laden are of different religious movements and are at either side of the lineup, Ahmadinejad was suspected to have supplied rockets to Hezbollah during the conflict in July 2006 and Kim Jong-Il is just following the order. Secondly to how great of a threat they should be considered, from left to right.

1.) The Horseman of War (Hassan Nasrallah)
This choice was driven primarily by the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last summer but also the more recent internal conflicts between the Lebanon government and Hezbollah. One quote from Nasrallah in particular sealed his fate as my ‘Horseman of War’ :

“No army in the world can make us drop the weapons from our hands!”

2.) The Horseman of Conquest (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Probably better known as the ‘Antichrist’ or ‘False Prophet’, Ahmadinejad fits the role as he tries to convince the world that Iran’s nuclear program is for peaceful applications only. It would have been President Bush to take this role, but that would be a major stereotype.

3.) The Horseman of Famine (Kim Jong-Il)
Originally chosen for the fact that in his mad pursuit of nuclear armament, he is letting his people starve to death, the “Dear Leader” is noted for many violations of human rights while he enjoys many luxuries, especially foreign movies. Were things possibly any better under the rule of his father, Kim-Il Sung?

4.) The Horseman of Death (Osama Muhammed Awad bin Laden)
I don’t think I have to explain this one. A man whom we had trained to be a survivor and financed to fight off Soviet occupation during the Cold War now directs his weapons at us. A man who has taken responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Americans, not just on 9/11 and who earnestly wishes the death of Western Civilization and everyone in it. It truly comes as a shock to me that he is all but forgotten in the public eye and we are not putting enough effort to find him.

What I noticed a lot on deviantART is that most political figures seem only to be defiled with reckless abandon and not focusing on the elements on what exactly makes these people so despicable. I wanted to avoid that and actually try to pose them in way that would capture their true face. Make them as human and unappealing as they really are.

Politics, in general, doesn’t seem to be such a hot topic on the site. The prototypes for this picture and 'Profile of a Traitor' rank pretty low in my gallery. I’m a person who is observant of what is going on in the real world. I like to imagine things within a plane of reality and that I what I set out to do with this.

Even I do not know why this took so long to complete. It was a collection of grievances that made this the headache it was. Honestly, I think the devil himself was on my ass about this picture with all the bad stuff that kept happening, especially when I was working on it.

This is the epitome of my “lineart” style. You know those outlines of the countries that I put up for download in my “Scraps”? I actually retraced those from original maps bit by bit, North Korea being the worst.

The quality of the sketches were really bad and more time had to be devoted to actually redraw entire portions of the characters. It was my own damn fault because I aimed to do most of the work on the computer and I believed it could be done much sooner.

Regardless of how this deviation is accepted by the community, I am going to retire this art style. It is not time-efficient, primitive and, in a way, redundant. In the three months I devoted to this POS, many of you have already pushed out dozens of better deviations, thanks to your fancy image-editing programs. I can afford them now, but my laptop can’t even handle a single video download from YouTube, let alone possibly being able to run such programs.

So until I get a new computer for my own, I going to stick with my 'Traditional Art' style. Working with just a pencil and paper gives me much more capacity for creativity and the stats show most of my HD (Hand-Drawn) pictures are the popular ones.

This was my last ace in the hole, the very reason I kept on going for over three months. I just kept telling myself, “Wait till Deviation No. 33 is finally done. It will be the one to blow them away!“ but now, I really don’t care if it gets noticed much or not. I don’t draw just to have my work liked by the masses. I do it to express my ideals on certain topics. The kind of things that nobody else could or would draw.