Scooter included to give sense of scale, CH-47 Chinook carrying Taiwan flag seen in background
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/10/12
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
M1A2T tank. (Instagram, @thomchen.art illustration)
Thomas Chen (陳安平), 25, who is a Taiwanese citizen although he was born and raised in the Philippines, told Taiwan News that he created the piece in response to the Inktober 2020 art challenge. Chen, who works as a freelance illustrator, said that since the theme that particular day was "hope," he "figured it was fitting."
Chen (Instagram @thomchen.art) says he used photos of the tank online for reference and included a food delivery driver on a Gogoro electric scooter next to it to give a sense of the immense size of the tank by comparing it with "something everyone can instantly recognize." As a late addition, Chen included a CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter carrying a Taiwanese flag, as that was part of the celebration in Taipei that day.
The illustrator said his inspiration was Taiwanese artist Mr_Dom (陳博詳), with whom he says he shares the common interest of drawing military art. Chen said that he had created the work simply with pen and paper. [FULL STORY]
