hot researchers don't gatekeep so something i cannot recommend enough if your field is 19th - 20th century (first half) and especially imperial german militaria are these two channels: plw history and feldpost - beautifully presented content and a wide range of topics+additional english subtitles for those who don't speak german;
additionally, for those who do speak german, i would recommend the most recent episode of the "don't forget history" podcast, hosted by the lads from plw history - beautiful episode and a lovely insight into the reality of militarism and its ties to ptsd reception explained by the guest from feldpost.
eh good enough
having creativity as a core psychological need really sucks because i haven't had the time to draw anything for a month and a half due to masses of work and i suddenly felt extremely hollow when the thought finally sank in. in that regard, i'm sorry to say i am not sure when my next post will be
anyway leaking some poilus i'm going to include in a big section (mainly comprising of character archetypes, gear and uniform turnarounds, weapon studies of the french army)
as a horror fan, i think perhaps the most exciting thing i have to work on regarding the comic is definitely the horror-esc aspects of it - the research is certainly disgusting, but i find the subject of depicting death and decay in art oddly fascinating, having everything to do with taking all the images from the text and making them real(the first scene from the visitation to kemmerich where paul imagines his decaying corpse in the grave with his nails and hair still growing lives in my head rent free so the only way to get rid of it is to make y'all suffer too sorry guys)
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good news people!!
my mental health is not shit anymore, so you might as well start expecting more activity around the comic. i am slowly starting to pick it up again, and although it's very difficult, i feel a bit better already
(style exercise, officer guy is from westfront 1918)
its the last one really
truly
can't find this one book on any illegal website for pdfs and i'm spiralling rn
some concept art from the very very beginning of this project (oldest being the im westen nichts neues poster) from when i had planned to make it traditionally. these are only sketches, but i actually have some more with ink, which i can not upload with these because of the post limit :/
all of these were made between late february-early march and april
also sorry for the bad quality of the photos, digital has its benefits ig, but let me know if you'd like to see more