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Strafe Wesson

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Name: Strafe Wesson
Rank: Private First Class
Age: 16
Blood Type: B
Date of Birth: 1 January, 2292

Strafe Wesson is a member of the Juvenile Reserve Corps, a reservist unit composed of youth as young as 15 who have undergone compulsory military training by the Heliadonian Unification Armed Force. Strafe lost his family during the last days of the Heliadonian-Geoid War, a decades long war of attrition waged by the surface colonists (Heliadonians) against inhabitants of tunnel colonies (Geoids) who have previously been sending raiding parties to the surface colonies for vital resources. Ever since, he was adopted by Maj. Levi Wesson, the leader of the operation that killed his family as atonement for the unexpected massacre of civilians. In early 2310, half of the Juvenile Corps is summoned to bolster the number of troops to be sent for the Earth invasion. Strafe was among those selected and was assigned to the decimated Orca 3-2 along with two other Juvenile Reserve Corps members, Cpl. Ainsley Osvald and Pfc. John Reuel Grisham.

Note: Serial number format as depicted is parent unit.recruitment date (DD.MM.YYYY).control number.

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Remake of [link] . Yes, yes, another remake. Sigh, when can I move on and make newer stuff? Anyway, this one's a rather literally big project for me, and fully digital at that. It's my first time working on a 600 dpi pencil sketch. I inked and painstakingly colored the whole thing in the ever-lovely Photoshop CS5. I also used a little hopefully obvious grit, using the texture Vintage Lust III by *ArtOfDecay-Stock to make the armor stand out a little (well I guess you still have to hit download to notice it). I also experimented here with a bit more subtle shading and highlights, avoiding solid shadows and lights as much as possible.

Now that background is another thing. That is going to be a template for all my Heliadon (see here) characters in the future and I will certainly do similar ones for the characters of my other factions and the mecha too. My observe-imitate-and-learn sort of internship in the Cultural Center of the Philippines actually helped with this one. I did the fractal and honeycomb pattern, as well as the two insigniae depicted.

Well the font's not mine and certainly the camouflage pattern though. I sure will give respective credit once I found the names.

PS: So much for the impossibility of painting with a mouse. Or at least using it to do something that looks hand painted. :XD:

Major Edit (16 Apr. 2011) - Made everything look better.



Vintage Lust III © *ArtOfDecay-Stock
Strafe Wesson © me
Steal and I'll feed you to the thresher maw.
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0729-Leo90's avatar
anime version mo chan? haha