"I had just read Ernst Jünger's brutal World War I memoirs, 'Storm of Steel', and was really inspired to do some imagery from that time period. Naturally, I went looking for the Marine Corps' side of the story and read up more on the Battle of Belleau Wood. Initially I thought about doing this with traditional paints, but there's already a lot of incredible paintings depicting Belleau Wood. So I did a sketch in ink brush, which I then scanned and colored in Adobe Photoshop. Although I do love doing drawings from real life, with this image I deliberately took a more exaggeratedly stylized approach to make something that looked like it could be a screencap from an animated film about Belleau Wood."