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TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!! ART FIGHT TIME AGAIN!! I'm on the side of team Fossil! Fight me if you dare >:)

https://artfight.net/~Toppy-flygon

I made a small video "revealing" what team I pick since I saw a lot of people do it last year and wanted to give it a shot XD!

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Irish man get mad a British bruh for visiting the squadron he in and saying a bunch of bs because he a higher up and out of touch with the air war - 1916 recolourize

Conall and Willis have been in my lately so here they are. Prior to Willis rise as a respectable pilot/ace. Before Willis was given a squadron which Conall would come along with.

When Willis was first starting his life as a fighter pilot Conall and him did not like each other. They both had a rivalry on who can best each other and they fought a lot. (if you ever read the railway series, their friendship is pretty similar to how Skarloey and Rhennes friendship form kinda) Overtime and many patrols later they slowly stared to understand each other. It was made better when Willis fumbled a landing and crash in one of Willis most embarrassing moments. When Conall approach he couldn’t help but laugh. It annoy Willis at first but soon he couldn’t help but laugh at himself. From their their friendship gotten better and now the two are close with each other. They still have a rivalry but it no where as bad as when it first began and their still quite a bit of stuff they both don’t agree on when it comes to the war, especially with a Willis now being in command of Squadron 151.

Alright lore dump time over

1. Conall about to shoot a out of touch British higher up

2. What I imagine Conall and Willis first interaction went

3-5 doodles

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Idk how it was since I last drew Cohen but I ended doing a slight/minor redesign of him and happy how it turn out and drew this XD!

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Joseph and Xing just talking about rilfe or something, sometime in 1916ish?

For a bit of context! When the war started, the Canadian army's primary rifle at the time was the Ross Rifle! Unfortunate this rifle gain a reputation of being super unreliable mostly due to the rifle jamming very often especially when rapid firing and it not be suitable for trench warfare!

Eventually in 1916, the Ross Rifle would be replace by the Lee-Enfield, however some snipers still used the Ross Rifle as they prefer it over the Lee-Enfield due to the Ross longer barrel and being a more accuracy!

Joseph here a good example of a sniper who prefer the Ross over the Lee-Enfield XD

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For does who though Jim would go a year without nightmare/suffering drawings…yeah no

Once again I change the “nightmare” design a but because what staying consistent again? Anyway for those who have no idea what the hell that I’m thing is well (totally not an excuse to lore dump a little)

Their what Jim simple calls “nightmare“ what they mean is not known but it torment Jim in his sleep often leaving Jim waking up, in all sorts of emotional mess. In an attempt to avoid having them Jim often will try to avoid sleeping as much as possible whatever it purposely going out on trench raids (though there some other motives for him to trench raid) or doing anything to “keep from falling asleep”. Ironically the more Jim avoid sleeping the worse he gets. Not only does it his mind becoming confuse, exhausted and a mess, but also his dreams/nightmare get worse the longer Jim avoid them. Jim hasn’t told anyone about it. Why would one who already been label as something beside human want tell anyone, it make it worse right?

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107 yrs ago, Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron would be killed in action under mysterious circumstance of who truly shot him.

Yup in this year of Toppy try and fail to do a more realistic style we have a simple drawing. Time was not my friend this year + I ended up getting a bad headache (possibly a migraine idk) on the day I was working on it lmao. I think I’m improving each year XD I’m getting better at drawing lips since idk how too.

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April 9th 1917, Easter morning. The battle for Vimy Ridge began with all 4 Canadian divisions. 3 days would pass eventually ending on April 12th 1917, with the Canadians successfully capturing Vimy Ridge after years of fail attempts by the British and French. Such victory had a price to pay, 10,600 casualties with around 3,598 being killed. Though often seen as the day Canada was seen as it own and not part of the empire, it a reminder that lifes were and more were to be lost even after the war ended.

Not going to lie, this year was a bit of struggle as I was fighting with lack of motivation. But It slowly coming back after drawing other stuff and taking a week off on working on Dardanelles. This is sort an aftermath of the battle onto of the ridge.

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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO CHECK IT OUT NOW

Thought I would talk about who was most likely to had killed Manfred Von Richthofen + an excuse to get more confidence in talking in my videos!

Check the date btw

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In typical fashion. I had to do a drawing of Conall for St Patrick day. In a similar vein to an old drawing of Willis, though I go for a stain glass look for this year. It appears their is still one snake that remains in Ireland

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I’m sure Baron is fine here :)

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Don't you hate it when their are Canadians hiding in your trench.

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I finally made art after being stuck in an art slump for a while. It nothing crazy but it art XD.

Featuring a simple Maximilian and other doodles in the following older

Walfred being an ass to Maximilian (he just purposely annoying him because he like to)

Walfred forgets what personal space is and Bruno dosen’t like it

Kai and whatever going in with the shadows idk

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Thank you Joseph for being there or else Zing would had died!

This comic page was an excuse to practices perspective and to mess with comic layouts I guess? Been inspired by the Transformers skybound comic style and somewhat try to recruit it (and failing lol). Like how it turn out but man it takes forever DX which is way I don't do this style in my comics as of now at least.

I dough I will make a another page related to this so enjoy this one page!