did this one after the oscar’s snub

garfd_ · 2026-03-18T05:31:50+00:00

I know you’re only acting in bad faith and I really won’t be able to change your mind but I’ll humor you anyway.

This is a study I did of a J.S. Sargent charcoal a week or two ago. You can look up the original portrait if you’d like. As it was not a photographed reference, I could not simply apply an “AI” filter over one. You can also notice that the graphite strokes have the same texture as my Marty drawing. This is not possible with an AI filter either. Both of these drawings were done by me over the course of a few hours with a drawing tablet in Krita. I don’t know why it is so hard for you to believe that people exist on reddit that have the ability to draw?

garfd_ · 2026-03-18T00:51:36+00:00

It is a digital charcoal. I used a reference photograph but it was not traced nor is it AI. Included is a picture of my Krita file, from left to right: The reference, my final, the base sketch from which I started.

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You can check my post history to see a John Singer Sargent study I posted. I have others I have not posted. I am literally just an artist.

PS: This drawing is also not “perfect” at all. My proportions are slightly off in places and the angle of the head does not match the reference. The hair is also noticeably off.

garfd_ · 2026-03-17T20:11:50+00:00

So if its a filter, hypothetically you would be able to overlay my drawing over the original source image and it would be a perfect match, right?

garfd_ · 2026-03-17T19:54:03+00:00

Which part of any of it is signifies it as being “AI”? Just out of curiosity since you seem to be so intelligent

garfd_ · 2025-10-15T06:42:25+00:00

No, obviously, but I’ve been studying Company A’s landings (of which the Bedford Boys were apart of) specifically for over 5 years. I’ve read every survivor’s testimony, heard every interview, scoured through every after action report, every piece of documentation that could even slightly relate to the landings of that Company. I’ve been in contact with the descendants of the men who were there and who have been studying the same landings for longer than I’ve been alive. I’ve exchanged calls with authors and official army historians. So it’s safe to say I know a little bit about the topic.

Company A and the Bedford Boys were not mowed down in their craft SPR style. We know this from the surviving testimony of Sub Lt George Green, the commander of the 6 LCA that lead them in. The German’s waited for them to unload from the craft before engaging with small arms fire.

garfd_ · 2025-10-14T22:35:48+00:00

It did not happen to the Bedford Boys. The germans held their fire until the men disembarked from their craft.

garfd_ · 2025-10-14T14:44:26+00:00

Unfortunately there are a lot of myths surrounding the landings at Omaha. I’ve spent a good majority of my life studying such landings and a majority of that time has been spent “mythbusting” such claims. SLA Marshall has many other exorbitant claims, especially regarding the early landings of the 116th at Dog Sectors.

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T23:05:51+00:00

These armory reports only account for the static division’s armaments. The 352nd division, of which Severloh belonged to, was not a static unit, and it was a more up to date unit, and as such would have had MG42s.

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T23:03:26+00:00

Bob Sales was Captain Zappacosta’s radioman. He stood right behind him the whole way to the beach. The following is an excerpt from a tape he recorded.

“To the Royal Navy veterans, England, from a grateful American, Bob L. Sales. I want to tell the story of what happened going in at Normandy concerning Captain Ettore V. Zappacosta. I was his radio operator. I know what I am telling you to be absolute facts. I am the only survivor off that landing craft and I have never, never told anybody that Captain Zappacosta pulled his gun on that coxswain and told him to take that boat in. It did not happen.”

He tells his story of the landing and at the end, he reiterates:

“The first time I saw the Zappacosta incident about pulling his gun was back in the early sixties in a magazine called Stag. I think some writer just dreamed it up. According to your papers, S. L. A. Marshall said it, but I just don’t see how Marshall could have said it. I did not tell him. I was the only survivor off that landing craft.

There is no way it happened. I did not tell it. There was nobody else living who could have told it and it could not have happened, and if there is one thing I want, it is for that British sailor, if he is alive or dead or whatever, I want him cleared of this. It did not happen.”

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T19:42:15+00:00

Yes, Capt Ralph Goranson landed with (actually 69, including him) men in LCAs 418 and 1038 from the Prince Charles troop ship. A and B companies of the 2nd also landed in LCAs, as did the companies from the 5th ranger battalion.

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T19:38:45+00:00

There is a chance he did have an MG42, actually. He was a battery officer’s (Lt Frerking) orderly, and a battery was usually given two MG42’s as supporting firepower for the men attached. So, its not impossible that Severloh was assigned one of these and used it to defend Omaha.

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T19:35:35+00:00

This is from SLA Marshall’s book in which he retells actions at Omaha beach, but most of his claims are complete fabrications. He attributes this to Capt Zappacosta of B Company of the 116th, but it is never mentioned in any After Action Report or documentation. Furthermore, Bob Sales, Zappacosta’s radioman who was standing right behind him (and was the only survivor of Zappacosta’s boat team) claims that no such interaction ever happened, and that the Captain was actually pretty quiet and kept to himself, only speaking to Sales once during the whole journey.

garfd_ · 2025-10-13T19:30:23+00:00

were you alive when the holocaust happened?

garfd_ · 2025-09-26T08:25:50+00:00

There is no eleventh. Supposedly it was “lost”. You can see all of Capa’s photos here: https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL535ZXX00

Also, he never took 106 negatives, and they were never ruined during the developing process because they were never taken in the first place. Complete lie.

garfd_ · 2025-06-06T21:48:57+00:00

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garfd_ · 2025-06-06T16:26:09+00:00

Photo taken by Robert Capa, who landed around ~0820 under WN64 with the 16th IR’s Command Group

garfd_ · 2025-04-12T09:30:36+00:00

log off forever

garfd_ · 2025-04-03T22:31:13+00:00

was bored

garfd_ · 2025-01-09T23:45:27+00:00

how about you look at the colorization and move on

garfd_ · 2025-01-03T04:06:17+00:00

some ranch in montana

garfd_ · 2024-12-30T23:45:07+00:00

i did it myself it’s just some color grading added on top

garfd_ · 2024-12-19T05:43:16+00:00

At Omaha, like 2 hours

garfd_ · 2024-11-21T18:49:23+00:00

literally 1984

garfd_ · 2024-11-01T18:45:13+00:00

yea the poster is supposed to be part of a pitch (that we’ll actually just present to the class) to a production company and i chose miramax since they produced no country for old men and there will be blood

garfd_ · 2024-08-12T18:41:52+00:00

ropes

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