I made a few sketches a few years ago while bored out of my mind in Iraq. This is one of them. First is the raw image version, the second is after I cleaned it up with gimp. I seem to have either never finished the cleanup, or just lost the finished version. But whatever.
The are signed using my nickname because I was still connected with the military at that time and there was a lot of fuss over whether or not exposing identities was a big bad thing or not. I chose to avoid the issue by never producing anything under my legal name for quite a while, and mostly put stuff on other sites (like this deviantart account to prevent finger pointing).
If I remember correctly, I was drawing this off of an AAR video of an incident that happened just as I started my second contract out there — bad luck. The reason I chose to draw this, though, was I wanted to try to draw an explosion in pencil, and had seen some really awesome explosion sketches on some sketch art sites. I think the explosion turned out OK, but the rest of the sketch isn’t particularly interesting. Meh. I’m pretty bad at drawing fences and trees (at least as background).