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Expendable
Published: 2007-02-09 02:19:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 27325; Favourites: 810; Downloads: 620
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Whew, done! Yes, it's another warlike picture. Yes, I promise to be more creative from now on.Check out the detail-shots for uberamazing detailzorz:
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It's always the infantry taking the toughest of the beatings, yet you can win a war without them.
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Ou my good. It's so epic! Really good painting !
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I love this, so much fun. Whats going on here? I personally think the fallen soldier died saving his friends life. The look on the red foxes face says it all. "Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to go and be the hero." Or, maybe it was friendly fire, and hes sad because his buddy died needlessly. Maybe he was a mutineer, and had to be put down. Maybe he was an enemy (in similar uniform) and our foxy victor is showing respect for his fallen foe. Regardless this painting really makes me feel sad. Poor little guy.
I can hear the pitter patter of rain on their coats, and the tink tink tink on the helmet. I hear the distant rumble of thunder, as the wind picks up and slows down. I can feel the wetness of their fur, as the water and blood drips off.
I know this has been up here a long time, but I love this. Amazing work, I can't begin to imagine how much time had to go into this.
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I Like this one! Do you have a FA Account??
"I promise to be more creative from now on"
What's not creative on this one??
Anyway, hope I'll see more like this one!!
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I do, and I'm more active there.
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Love the emotions that have been conveyed, they're very well done. And yeah, the thing that pops into my head when I see the poor guy on he left is who was he? Why is he here? And all that other stuff.
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This is very moving picture that makes me feel really sad for the poor guy there. I always hated the idea of people having to go to a war, knowing there's a high chance of dying. In a few milliseconds, they're just gone, all they were, all their memories, knowledge, interests, talents... gone or quickly decaying as the brain dies and the neural networks and signals that made up all that decay and all is left is the lifeless body, reminding you of that every time you look at it. I think that the picture portrays the gloomy atmosphere of that feeling very well.
Plus bullet trough the head (that's what I assumed from picture due to the hole in unfortunately-not-so-protective helmet) is the way that has both most fascinated and terrified me. To think what happens to the consciousness or to the person itself, or even to the brain as the bullet quickly destroys a portion of it. People say that its instant death, though I suppose it's rather instant loss of consciousness (and not even in all cases), but portions of the brain still remain somewhat working, until they slowly die off too, because of lack of oxygen and such.
What happens to the mind and to these left portions of brain? What happens in the very short time the bullet is passing trough the brain? Although brain isn't capable of feeling pain by itself, damaging portions of it might cause some really weird feelings. What if the person still feels something even when seemingly unconscious (but rather unable to communicate with the surroundings), slowly dying off as more and more of the brain stops working (by that I mean any electrical impulses, even chaotic ones). And if the still remaining portions get isolated and cant communicate? Is the mind, although unconscious, separated? We don't even know how exactly is our mind linked to the physical and energetic structures of the brain.
All we know is, that the victim is gone, the information, that was growing, changing and improving over many years, affecting many others, is lost, for good. Very depressing.
These are my thoughts that emerged when gazing at your magnificent artwork. How simple idea, yet so complex implications. Plus the questions... who was the guy who died? Who is the guy sitting next to him and what is he thinking when staring at the lifeless body? Maybe all that I just said (apart from "Who is the guy sitting next to him?" unless he got some sort of amnesia and is looking at the scenery in a mirror of which existence he isn't aware of)? Did he drag him there from somewhere on the battlefield? What will happen to the decaying body afterwards? What will happen to his relatives? What will happen to him? Will he die as well? And why are strawberries combined with a ineffective glue the main food source of the planetary worms?
Sorry for the wall though, it's just, my brain does that when presented with this topic presented in an excellent form and skill. Unless someone shoots it too. Though maybe not even then...
Anyway, I have a habit of commenting works that I consider really awesome with new words so:
It's frutibillywimorous!
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Frooxius' dictionary of made up words to English
Frutibillywimorous, an adverb:
Everything I just said above summed up in a single word.
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i love this it really captures the feeling.
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*Sighs sadly* This reminds me of so much... it's very touching indeed. Very well done.
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mmmmkay why does he have a ww2 helmet when he has a modern(ish) uniform , and what weapon is the gu to the left using, looks kind of like an HK USP match
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i donΒ΄t think that you can really see, that it is a modern uniform. I see green clothes and a ww2 helmet which was used by the american army (and maybe some other nations and armys) in WW2. And the gun to the right could be a Thomson (a MG, which was used by the army, too.)
So it look like, that those two guys are American soldiers in WW2.
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yeah. i know about the helmet. but the thompson did not have a weird silver thing on it. and they dont look very wool-y
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it have. Here: [link]
And if you mean the clothes: since ww1 it have never looked wooly.
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see what i meant was, that they look too much like synthetic fibers, used in more modern uniforms.
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Who say, they hadnΒ΄t it.
In WW2 Germany had the first helicopters, the first rocket for an attack with high range and the first fight planes with jet propulsion. And that is more than 60 years in the past.
And, with the right way to produce it and with the right color, you can find a different only, if you hold the uniform in your hands.
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listen,(or, read 
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And what have the normal sodiers. They wear only the flag, if it didnΒ΄t get lost. Maybe you mean the uniforms for parades, where you can see who is part of a special unit. But the uniforms for launch havenΒ΄t so much, and they donΒ΄t look so beatyful. Here I found something, and before you think wrong, it is an American uniform and that guy is part of a club, where they are interested in things like that: [link]
By the way, I didnΒ΄t say, that are american, because they are green, I said it, because the gun was used by Americans and the helmet is typical for American soldiers.
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Shit mannen, gjorde du den HΓR? Den har jag haft som bakgrundsbild mΓ₯nga gΓ₯nger
Γnskar jag kunde gΓΆra sΓ₯na hΓ€r grejer assΓ₯!
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Wow. Found the original when linking over from something by ~Scifer This picture is brilliant and I've lost count of how many videos it's in on youtube. (those I have fond can be found in my youtube account faves if ya want to hunt don't know if you made them though)
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Hello this is a amazing Picture i will make a Wallpaper for me can i have it in xxl format with all details!
Please
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"Expendable" as in at war the life of an average soldier is always expendable?
'Cuz that totally adds to the atmosphere here. 
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My god, you are amazing. This piece, is just breathtaking. Really, you take my favorite artist place.
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0_0 WOW!!
That is one of the most awesome, detailed, and moving pictures I have ever seen! T~T
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Wow...very dramatic. I love the lighting and the slight abstract touch with the soldier to the left. Beautiful work.
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I really like the gloomy mood. It's very cool!
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simply amazing; the detail is great, and the dreary scene matches the emotion it evokes as well.
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Just fantastic, really. Awe and envy inspiring all at the same time. Im trying to get to this sort of level of digital work, but im still falling flat.
Well worth the award and the praise its got.
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This is a fantastic piece! I love the amount of detail and the quality of the lighting.
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I'd fav this, but it would make all my other Faves look bad!!
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Very nice. You're a talented artist and I'm impressed my your work so far!
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What program do you use?
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photoshop im guessing
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Bloody shame... really. Wonderful and emotion-dripping work, as usual.
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BEAUTIFUL style. Coloring is fantastic. As is character design.
This one, for me, tells of the pointlessness of fighting, that it only ends with dead bodies.
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everything that's great about this piece has been pretty much said, it's amazingly well done, awesome concept, and love the style. the only thing that's off is how bright the furr is on the fox's left side cheak, the light source can't reach it there, if you match it to the light on the dead fox's furr and imagine it on the one that's alive i think you'll see what i mean, but everything else is brilliant. great job
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Absolutely stunning. And the detailzorsz!!
Just amazing. Excellent work. Again, lots of meaning in this piece.
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i love this picture, poor expendable soldiers, i'd hate being cannon fodder in a war
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uh hu. now realize most of whats being fought over just, isnt, worth it. before i forget, im hoping strange-fox makes this into a comic or something. wouldnt that own all the rest?
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meh, i guess, i dont know what other comics would compete with this type
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