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Avatar Gallery Blog Part 2: Behind-the-Scenes

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In this second part of our three-part blog series featuring Stummingbird's custom Avatar Gallery drawings, we present his first vehicle renditions, as well as the original infantry collection, complete in high-resolution with preliminary sketches! The artists amongst you will appreciate that everything began with simple pencil and paper drafts, before any work on the computer. What is so interesting about these drawings is how they take a purposefully naive genre of digital art (MSPaint, anyone?) and transform it into a strong design style. When your final destination is a tiny 100x100 pixel Avatar space, you've got to keep it simple.

Enjoy the Company of Heroes 2 custom COH2.ORG avatars in their full digital glory. Click on the image to see it in full resolution, a whopping 2100x2100 pixels. You can make any of these avatars your own by simply clicking on your profile, then clicking "Change Avatar" and "Show Gallery." Which COH2 unit is your favorite, or suits your personality the best?



The first of the vehicle avatars is the Russian T-34-85




Strumm tried a different angle on the Mortar Halftrack, does it feel like you're playing COH2?




The Sd.Kfz.251 Halftrack gets away with less detail because it's shiny




Strumm started adding more details to the drawings, as seen on this T-34-76




The SU-76 has properly detailed tracks




This cool Panther features Winter camo for the first time



The Tiger Pz.Kpfw.VI sports the completely fictional 4-colour camo seen in-game




The larger tanks like this IS-2 are best viewed looking upwards, making them look more impressive



In this next section you will find both the original collection of Infantry Avatars, as well as the sketches that preceded each work. The cartoon characterizations of our favorite COH2 units give these soldiers a unique charm. Click to open the spoilers, then click on the draft or the final result to see each image in full resolution.


M1910 Maxim



Engineer



Partisan



PM-82 Mortar



Sniper



Guard



Gr-34 Mortar



Ostruppen



Soviet Medic



Assault Grenadier



Sdkfz 251



IS2




We hope you've enjoyed this Behind-the-Scenes look at Strummingbird's custom COH2.ORG avatars. Keep an eye on this space for the last edition of this series, Part 3: The New Hotness!
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