WWII US Paratrooper tutorial

Here is the 2 part tutorial on how I drew this picture. Each half is roughly 12 minutes in length. YouTube only allows for 15 minute uploads of videos so I'll keep that in mind for the future. Enjoy!

U.S. WWII Paratrooper

There is something inherently enjoying about drawing WWII related stuff, for me. I've always been somewhat of a WWII buff ever since high school. My admiration for the soldiers who served was one of the reasons I joined the infantry myself. Hearing about things like brotherhood and camaraderie romanticized the who idea of the military for me. Of course after joining I got to see what it's really like. It was one of the most enjoyable experiences in my entire life and I look back on in fondly.

Well, that went off onto a weird tangent. Well, anyways, here is a WWII paratrooper. He doesn't have a name, I didn't think that far ahead. Let's call him Sgt. Shapiro... sound good? I think so. Outside of wanting to learn drawing digitally more and more with each piece, this one was sort of a study. As you may know I'm currently tinkering on a WWII comic based around D-Day right now, and this drawing is just a warm-up for what's to come. Later on I should have a video of the whole process. I'll make sure to post it up here when it's ready.

Sketch-a-Day: Chimp Army

Why not bring Sketch-a-Day back? Just one of those strange ideas that came to me from God knows where. I've been having trouble with some Flying Fortress pages, so I decided to take a break. That break turned into monkey work... maybe I should do a series of these, I might like that. What do you think internets?