The illustration on these lines was developed for the late strategy card game Myths and Legends "of Salo. The letter belongs
the "trenches", edition set in World War I (1914-1918) and represents the time that a German professor invites a group of enthusiastic students to join the army to defend the homeland .
Even without being the most epic and heroic in my illustrations, I consider this image as one of my favorites, both because the technical end as the apparent reference I made to one of the most famous anti-war films of all time: All Quiet in the Western Front * (All Quiet on the Western Front) Lewis Milestone (1930). E
Personally, Trench was an exhausting exercise that put me in the face of one of the events saddest of our history. As for other issues the documentation was to stories of myths and epic paintings, images of shields and swords of times forgotten, I had to dig trenches in between photos, documentaries and movies and bloody recent past. Therefore, it is also the Homeland Defender is important to me, it represents the beginning in the saga of a group of teenagers who moved and patriotism or fanaticism, gave their lives to the absurdity of war in defense of their worldview. Make
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Shaman
creative director
Invasor Studio.
* Adapted from the eponymous novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1929).
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