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Remake/Remodel - Bakterevby ~Clone-Artist

Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Conceptual

Remake/Remodel is back for the first time in a while... Let's have Si Spurrier tell us about what needs to be done!

BAKTEREV

This one’s about as mental as it gets, but can be summed-up thus:

MAD! RUSSIAN! SCIENCE!

Bakterev is a nutty scientist created by Pavel Perov for his 1925 pulp novel Bratstvo Viia. I quote the ever-magnificent Jess Nevins:

Bakterev is “a collaborator of the Jewish conspirators who have brought about the Bolshevik Revolution” in Russia--

--so we’re already in some pretty dodgy racist paranoid conspiracy territory, which is always fertile ground for R/R horrors—

He is a leader of the Brotherhood of the Vii and has for years been summoning “dead souls” and implanting them into ectoplasm extracted from living humans. The resulting beings are called “mortomats” and are controlled by the Brotherhood’s machines.

There’s more – like how an Irish-American Reporter, a white-cavalry officer and a Cossack servant ultimately bring down the evil Brotherhood in the Baltic Forests after defeating a legion of Mortomat Roman Soldiers – but I think the angle we want here is purer than that: it’s Soviet Political Skulduggery at the hands of Ectoplasmic Soul-Monsters animated by an Insane Bolshevik Scientist. Only on R/R, baby.

Modernise or futurise, my darlings. Hollywood just decided to remake Bratstvo Viia for today’s feckless audience, and you’re part of the concept team.

It was fun doing this after a while, but due to the commissions I probably won't be able to color it in time, so here's my take on Bakterev

*jackcrowder Mar 9, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Love how you went with it!

~Clone-Artist Mar 12, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks! I'm glad that we have you aboard on Remake/Remodel thread.

*jackcrowder Mar 13, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I hope they stay consistent!

~SpitfireMK1 Mar 9, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

It is... Artistically weired

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