Good reference material is very important in getting good drawings. When I have to represent a well known game or movie character, I’d better make him or her recognizable. Details of costume, features or location are hard to remember, and reference makes the difference between instant recognition and, “who’s that supposed to be?” If I’m going to draw Red Beret or Baird, I need to find the details and shapes that make them who they are. Even if you play a game religiously, when it comes down to details, you might not remember anything useful. Fortunately, we have the internet to tell us. Unfortunately the internet likes small, blurry images that obscure the detail you seek. The “Large” setting in Google’s image search helps narrow your results to images that might carry enough detail to be useful.
For the record: “Safe Search” is your friend. You have no idea the kind of nasty crap you can expose your brain to with seemingly innocuous search terms. Or maybe you do. I’m not here to judge, you sicko pervert.
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Well, consider me tickled pink. I’m flattered to be considered worthy of a comic, anti-Canadian sentiments notwithstanding.
Thanks guys!
Our pleasure. Credit where credit is due! Even if it has to go north of the border.
There’s also a hearty helping of Pro-Canada sentiment in there you hoser. Though you may have missed it because you sprayed milk all over your computer…milk you were drinking from a bag, because Canadians are weird and bag their milk.
Let’s take a closer look at this supposed Anti-Canadian sentiment, you’ll note that Panels 3 and 4 laud the ability of Canadians to murder without losing their sense of decorum.
It’s probably in part that your government has subsidized politeness. In America we don’t believe in a Politeness Nanny State–rather we believe in the free market’s ability to regulate our American Sass talk. Which is why we kick ass at it.
I seem to have lost my train of thought, in any event you’re the best Mo.
Cheers, (or as you Canadians would say it, “Gretzky”)
Jack
Three Gretzkys for Mo!
I love how the BC2 classes are depicted here (Russian, by the looks of it). If you guys can ever find a way to work the American medic into a strip, I’d love to see him. Alas, BF3 has no strict medic class, and no more bitchin’ mustaches.
Force,
If you look closely, you’ll see I did include the U.S. medic. Panel 4, upside-down.