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I've had a project lingering on my backburner that I really want to do if I can find the time to do it! It's a scene of a WWII U-Boat surface watch in the North Atlantic. Seeing as they are part of a Wolf Pack the entire watch crew is made up of wolves. All you'll see of the sub in the piece is the top of the Conning Tower. The entire success of the piece will hinge on the portrayal of watch members and the environment.
I have drawn very few submarines and have drawn the North Atlantic even less. So a year or so ago I decided to start making some study sketches of U-Boats and how they operated in wartime conditions. The most important learned from reading about U-Boat operations, and for that matter any sub service in WWII, was it was not for the faint of heart! With U-Boat casualities running as high as 80% they maintained amazingly high morale. Conditions onboard were horrid at times and the crew were packed like sardines inside cramp hull. You could die suddenly from a depth charge crumpling your hull like a tin can, or you could take slowly drowning or worse slowly suffocating at the bottom if the depth charge or water depth didn't finish the job. No wonder it submariner service is voluntary still.
Exciting discovery! Hey kids want to simulating the experience of watching the North Atlantic without actually traveling there?! Then install a clear glass plate on your washing machine and turn it on! For extra realism take a cold shower with your clothes on and then stand in a bucket of ice water while watching! It's fun! No really!
I have drawn very few submarines and have drawn the North Atlantic even less. So a year or so ago I decided to start making some study sketches of U-Boats and how they operated in wartime conditions. The most important learned from reading about U-Boat operations, and for that matter any sub service in WWII, was it was not for the faint of heart! With U-Boat casualities running as high as 80% they maintained amazingly high morale. Conditions onboard were horrid at times and the crew were packed like sardines inside cramp hull. You could die suddenly from a depth charge crumpling your hull like a tin can, or you could take slowly drowning or worse slowly suffocating at the bottom if the depth charge or water depth didn't finish the job. No wonder it submariner service is voluntary still.
Exciting discovery! Hey kids want to simulating the experience of watching the North Atlantic without actually traveling there?! Then install a clear glass plate on your washing machine and turn it on! For extra realism take a cold shower with your clothes on and then stand in a bucket of ice water while watching! It's fun! No really!
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Cool. I heard the German Navy had the highest percentage of wounded vs. killed, as in you were more likely to get killed than injured in battle.
I wish you'd put your watermark in a less conspicuous place where you can't get rid of it without ruining the picture, but where it doesn't the eye's motion path.
I wish you'd put your watermark in a less conspicuous place where you can't get rid of it without ruining the picture, but where it doesn't the eye's motion path.
It's called "Pax Art Poster, 16 August 1970" by the political cartoonist Hugh Haynie. He was an artist for the local paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, who was a nationally printed cartoonist from the 1950s until his death in the 90s.
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Full-sized version:
http://panton41.home.insightbb.com/War.jpg
I've seen one from the inside once:
54°24'45.00"N
10°13'44.00"O
(Coordinates for Google Earth)
It was exciting! My neighbour used to be a sailor on one of those. He doesn't talk much about it tough. He has given me his old leather jacket as a present once. He told me it survived 50 years of work in his garden and one sinking.
54°24'45.00"N
10°13'44.00"O
(Coordinates for Google Earth)
It was exciting! My neighbour used to be a sailor on one of those. He doesn't talk much about it tough. He has given me his old leather jacket as a present once. He told me it survived 50 years of work in his garden and one sinking.
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