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This is a piece that's been stuck in my mind for the past week. Now that I've finally had a day off, I sat down to sketch a little, and this just sort of happened on the page, in one of those sublime art moments. The scene is from my comic Lift, which, unlike the blazing weekly pace of my comic 6-Commando , progresses at the pace of one page every couple of months or so. This is not a page, but I'm still really happy with how it turned out. I don't do a lot of plain pinups like this.

Lift occurs in an alternate history, a sidewise version of the 1930's where World War I is technically still going on. Germany and the remnants of Austro-Hungary have become a single state called the Mitteleuropäische Demokratische Republik, still locked in military stalemate with France and the British Empire. This bit depicts Amy Moran , pilot extraordinaire and soldier-of-fortune, with Werner, reformed Frontist, Mitteleuropean dissident and resistance fighter. Formerly of the Mitteleuropäisches Luftflotte, he has torn the insignia from his uniform in disgust and gone rogue. The band on his arm (in color, it would be golden yellow) denotes him as a member of the Widerstand, and he may or may not belong to other groups as well. The poster behind them is based on a very famous Nazi propaganda poster extolling the virtues of the Sturmabteilung - if you don't know who they were, imagine the most malignant expression of Nazi political violence and street thuggery, and you'll be pretty close. Even though it's fiction, I can't bring myself to actually put pen to paper to draw a swastika, and so the equivalent of fascism in this world, known as Frontism, is symbolized by the Triskelion, as shown here.

I may or may not color this. My intent is still to have a more skilled colorist than myself work on this book when it gets to where it's worth doing.

Since people have in the past asked about it, I do use photographic reference to help me compose scenes. Mostly it comes from my own morgue - I have something approaching five or six thousand images I've accumulated in scrapbooks over the years - mostly from newspapers and old magazines. In this particular case, special thanks also goes to Phelan Davion here on dA for a fabulous resource of reference photos. Very helpful with visualizing unusual or complex poses - Amy's, in this case - since I have no-one to model for me most of the time.

Description
This is a piece that's been stuck in my mind for the past week. Now that I've finally had a day off, I sat down to sketch a little, and this just sort of happened on the page, in one of those sublime art moments. The scene is from my comic Lift, which, unlike the blazing weekly pace of my comic 6-Commando , progresses at the pace of one page every couple of months or so. This is not a page, but I'm still really happy with how it turned out. I don't do a lot of plain pinups like this.

Lift occurs in an alternate history, a sidewise version of the 1930's where World War I is technically still going on. Germany and the remnants of Austro-Hungary have become a single state called the Mitteleuropäische Demokratische Republik, still locked in military stalemate with France and the British Empire. This bit depicts Amy Moran , pilot extraordinaire and soldier-of-fortune, with Werner, reformed Frontist, Mitteleuropean dissident and resistance fighter. Formerly of the Mitteleuropäisches Luftflotte, he has torn the insignia from his uniform in disgust and gone rogue. The band on his arm (in color, it would be golden yellow) denotes him as a member of the Widerstand, and he may or may not belong to other groups as well. The poster behind them is based on a very famous Nazi propaganda poster extolling the virtues of the Sturmabteilung - if you don't know who they were, imagine the most malignant expression of Nazi political violence and street thuggery, and you'll be pretty close. Even though it's fiction, I can't bring myself to actually put pen to paper to draw a swastika, and so the equivalent of fascism in this world, known as Frontism, is symbolized by the Triskelion, as shown here.

I may or may not color this. My intent is still to have a more skilled colorist than myself work on this book when it gets to where it's worth doing.

Since people have in the past asked about it, I do use photographic reference to help me compose scenes. Mostly it comes from my own morgue - I have something approaching five or six thousand images I've accumulated in scrapbooks over the years - mostly from newspapers and old magazines. In this particular case, special thanks also goes to Phelan Davion here on dA for a fabulous resource of reference photos. Very helpful with visualizing unusual or complex poses - Amy's, in this case - since I have no-one to model for me most of the time.