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Published: 2014-07-06 21:36:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 84729; Favourites: 3034; Downloads: 0
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3 months since my last submission, sorry for being so quiet lately. I've been working on my art book since November so my attention was focused there. Now I need to resume freelance work as my book funding is running out, gotta pay those bills. So, you'll finally see me resume regular art submission to DA, lots of commission work on the way.This is a commission for Alpha-Dilophosaurus
Aliens are sieging earth and here Russian forces hold out in their own land. Troops equipped with heavy body armor and powerful rifles cover a 4 legged tank that has been immobilized. In the distance along the front lines the troops are meeting similar resistance as their enemies prove difficult to bring down.
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interesting that they would actually do ground combat. because thats actually humanities best defense against an alien invasion making them bleed for every inch of soil
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Can't have a fun scifi without ground war, even if orbital bombardment is better
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For Earth and All Her Colonies!
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kill capitalist aliens!
in name of glorious soviet union!
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Would you be interested in doing some artwork/Concept art for a upcoming movie?
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I love the fact that backgrounds finally became an important part of your pictures
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I high quality picture as always. Those evil bills that always sap away our money.
Speaking of the book how it coming along?
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I'm slowly working my way through all the proof reading. It's a bit over 1/3 proofed at this point. I have to check for spelling AND every technical detail to ensure setting accuracy.
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I would imagine that keeping the 'science' of a fictional setting straight would be a little difficult. It is good to hear that there is progress, even if its slower then expected. Keep up the good work both to pay the bills and making the book.
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Here is some back story. At the end of the 21st century the world saw a mass economic reshuffle, countries who relied heavily on oil and other fossil fuels were hit the hardest. A Neo-Socialist movement crept in, starting not in Russia but in Alaska. Alaska now with it's oil all but useless(not that it had much left) become very impoverished, along with Russia & China. This was the perfect climate for Socialist ideals to reignite, not the centralist form but more like a confederate one. The soviets formed an alliance with the alien race known as the Cerruon . The Soviet Alliance officially formed in 2120 with some of its former territories and new ones in China, Africa, Alaska and space colonies. It lasted to 2184 when The Great Red War broke out due to tensions between them and the alien race the Clhattians mainly with the Confederation of Dalloyn Systems . The soviets were found to be supporting revolutions in the territories of the Confederation of Dalloyn Systems. Mass sanctions against the soviets especially in energy trade caused their economy to reach the brink of collapse. In September of 2184 they attacked the joint European-Dalloyn colonial planet of Thauclite and the helium 3 mining gas giant it orbited. The picture here shows the last years of the war when the allies attacked the soviet alliances weak point earth. It was not counting on the war spreading past the colonies.
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alpha-dilophosaurus.deviantart…
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I missed you a LOOOT !
But you're here again
So, I love it, firstly because of the aliens : finally we get some with metallic armors ! And not something really strange, no, something we can almost say "seems to be human". Great.
Secondly, the tank is really cool 
Thirdly, the russians with soviet emblem ^-^
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Well, the tank can move on tracks or by walking. So long as it doesn't take too big a leg hit it'd be fine, not any more vulnerable than a usual tank getting it's tracks hit.
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Oh okay, I see
The tracks are hard to see on the picture x)
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this is fantastic great job I feel like right there in the firefight I'll be the medic if that's all right with you.
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Dynamic, beautifully realized, with excellent attention to detail and a very nice, sparing use of effects in the form of muzzle flashes and line of fire, not to mention excellent perspective. Beautiful.
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I love how you are able to draw the far off background as well. Just adds so much depth to the scene, fantastic!
Edit: Would be better to see those "aliens" using some kind of energy weaponry though. I noticed the dead alien in the bottom left corner of the drawing, and saw what looked like ammunition/buckshot/shells on a strap/ammo belt. Ruined the immersion a little. Will you change that?
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How does an Alien using a ballistic weapon ruin immersion for you? Watch more scifi, aliens use ballistic weapons all the time.
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Well my argument was that Aliens would typically have technology differences than ours and not discover ballistics but instead energy weaponization instead..
I'll go away now.
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Haha, I wanted to point out that being strict about that kind of thinking leads to it's own kind of "boring". A race would discover ballistics before they discover enery weapons, and it's possible they will find advancing those ballistic weapons more efficient than energy weapons. It's ok to present you ideas, but be careful how you word them, and remember that commissioned work doesn't leave everything up to the artist.
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Oh okay, my bad. Didn't know people who commissioned liked to go into that kind of detail as well, seeing as I've never commissioned.
Your first point is very valid, that is true.
Thanks.
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Great scene!
I like that most of the aliens are far away and have little detail to them.
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Amazing, I love the feel of a massive battle that this scene has.
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why cccp 
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I don't think the hammer and sickle are exclusively a cccp icon, they represent more than that.
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