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APH - Death of a Brother

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The Final Version.

Originally, I had placed a lot more layers of random brushes on top and considered in using the "Diffused Glow" filter, but I really like it the way it is here (I didn't want to overkill the blood-splattering).

No "Magic Wand" tool was used to color this, just basic brushes in Photoshop and some from angelic-trust.net.
Also, I used various blending modes to make the line art a Teal/Prussian Blue color (mainly "Screen" and "Multiply" ).

And no swastika or flags in the background this time
(I think I can hear both "Awws" and "Yays" out there :XD: )

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Historically, Prussia does 'die' - the Nazi Party pretty much decimated the empire by splitting him up into East Germany, parts of Poland, parts of Russia, and various Baltic states near the end of WW2; the last of him is 'gone' when East Germany was united with West Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.

So ja... that's one idea how I came up with this pic...

The other idea was the separation of East and West Germany - Prussia has the characteristics of the stereotype of a Eastern German (lazy, drunk, a bit of a hooligan/bum), while Doitsu represent a Western German's stereotype (sophisticated, strict, and smart - ha, ha, ha the 3 S's I like in a guy :XD: ).

[Of course, nobody 100% fits their stereotype. I know I don't - I'm far from being overweight and not knowing where Iraq and Iran are located in a map like over 60% Americans are]

Anyway - other things to point out:

Well, you can definitely see the resemblance between Germany/Ludwig and his older brother Prussia/Gilbert, especially since Germany's hair is down here. :XD:
I was debating whether if I should 'comb' back Doitsu's hair, but I decided not to.
Of course I'm not saying that slicked back hair is a bad thing - he looks good either way. :XD:

Germany is also wearing the rarely seen green version of his uniform (it's a blue-grey/teal color most of the time in the anime; you can see him wearing the green jacket and pants mainly when he's training).

I also kinda screwed up Prussia's uniform a bit - I forgot to draw a belt, and he wears knee-high boots (Ich bin ein Dummkopf :dead: ).
But I had seen some official pics of him wearing a uniform similar to what I've drawn, plus some SS uniforms were fashioned in a similar way, so it's not too much a big deal (hopefully ^^; ).

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Well, feel free to leave a comment - I'm always happy to hear what you think (well, not always :XD: ).

__FrauV8

*Rough Version: [link]

*WIP Version: [link]
Image size
1800x2600px 2.85 MB
Make
HP
Model
HP pstc3100
Date Taken
Sep 5, 2009, 2:05:42 PM
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Poor Gil. But hey, at least it was fun to read about in history class? Sorta. You know something's wrong when wars start sounding like rape fics and alliances start to sound like dating. But that kinda makes it fun. lol

This is a really sad picture, but very well made. I'd comment on something specific, but I really don't know enough about how you do this, so just know I find it really moving and beautiful.

Also-- apparently, aside from drunkenness, my friend lives up to the stereotype. Isn't that funny?