APH - Reluctant Soldier

Meh... it's not as good as it could be...
Maybe I should of traced it onto another sheet and inked it before coloring it, but the flag in the background has a ragged line quality so it's actually fine the way it is...

It's another Doitsu/Ludwig pic - you can never have enough of him... and Faust VIII... and Bill Kaulitz... and my OC Cedrick (that's practically most of my Gallery listed there - and the funny thing is that they're all crazy Germans! )

Anyway, about the pic:

I had drawn mainly one half of his face, so I copied the other side to complete his face, and I added in an Iron Cross, SS skull emblem, and national eagle emblem to create the rough.

For coloring, I just used basic brushes, filters, textures/patterns placed in as layers, and a few gradient and solid color layers with my favorite tool - the "Magic Wand."

The background is a pic of a WW2 German flag (duh) with a skull and swastika in the center which is blocked by Germany's head (here's what the flag looks like: [link] ), so people can't really complain much about this pic except for the skull and eagle emblems.

Let me know what you think.

But if you're going to piss and whine about how 'evil' the swastika is, be prepared for my 'symbols lecture' (better yet, just go to Wikipedia and educate yourself; you people need to grow up and get a life besides complaining about things and absorbing everything the media puts out - it's something called "tolerance" ).

Also, I don't need to hear from people that Nazis are evil - practically everybody knows that; I only like their uniforms, but other than that... ah, forget it.
Just to cut it short, I'm not a Nazi nor do I support eugenics (as a Bio/Art major, I know that a lack of variation in a species equals a fast track to extinction).

That'll be all.

__FrauV8

Rough Version: [link]