#I guess? tbh I've been staring at Soldier's mug for so long it's nothing but funny to me.

[meatballsander]

Decided to get silly and draw the inverse of the iconic "Victory Soldier" poster. And make it Heavymedic, of course.

Inspiration, progress pics, and alt versions under the cut

This poster! Always been a fan.

Initially I was gonna keep the same setting & color scheme, but the original poster distinctly has the top two thirds warm tones/bottom third cool tones. If I wanted to keep the piece cohesive it'd have to be RED Heavymedic vs BLU Soldier. And the more I thought about that the less it felt explicitly like Heavymedic fanart and more like propaganda for the RED team.

So I set it on Snowycoast! Its sky box and layout let me have cool top thirds/warm bottom third. Also it's one of the most beautiful maps in the game and I love drawing night scenes. Literally no downsides.

Progress pics!

Textless version, and an alt text version I made at the request of a friend:

And finally, since you've reached the bottom, some memes I made while working on it.

:)

#meatballsander art #tf2 #heavymedic #red oktoberfest #heavy tf2 #medic tf2 #soldier tf2 #artists on tumblr #tf2 fanart #tw death #cw death #I guess? tbh I've been staring at Soldier's mug for so long it's nothing but funny to me. #hey now you're reading the tags I'm gonna tell you a fun fact. #about a month ago my wifi router went down unexpectedly and the only song I had downloaded was Kiss From A Rose by Seal. #and you know what happens when you're sitting for 35 minutes straight waiting for a wifi router to reboot #left with only Kiss From A Rose and your mind? #this heckin piece babyyyyy #anyway shout out to Seal and my shitty wifi provider for making this happen #lgbt #edited a few hours after posting because I spotted an error in the bg coloring... sigh