Pesadilla. Mi ilustración para Trial By Comics Contest. Theme: War

Dear friends, I leave for you my participation in the Trial by Comics Contest, promoted by @kommienezuspadt (link, hear). It is the first time that I participate in this contest. The theme of this call is very interesting: the war.
What can a theme of that nature say to someone who is against the war? It tells you many terrible things. Now, with those terrible things I have constructed my illustration.
My first reasoning was that to show war as I see it, I should make it strange (that is, take it to the terrain of estrangement), as well as violent, terrifying, full of death and absurd. Then I thought that a good way was to present it through animals. But let's see a little of the reasons for my decisions.

A little about the meaning of the represented

-Characters
The cats were my first choice. First, because cats are almost always my first choice, and then because cats can stand the record of the terrible. But they had to fight with another side, so I chose human beings, but I styled them almost like dolls, because in war humanity is not worth much.

-The representation of death
I did not want my drawing to be a field of blood, but you can not draw war without blood and without death (obviously), so I suggested them to both with colored lines (red, dark blue and vinotinto, mainly) and with the bodies of humans and animals that jump through the air. Not to mention that the scene focuses on three cats that stand on the corpse of an enemy. There is a cat that is about to land on him, eager for blood. There I also put a dead young kitten. The war is full of senseless deaths.

-The violence
The sun and the towers with cannons provide the fire, another characteristic element of the war. It is also the reminder of violence and destruction. The bodies are mutilated and are in the process of jumping through the air. A dead soldier is half naked (the war also destroys dignity). That is the trace of a violence that has already occurred but that is still present in the scene. A photograph of events that are in process.

-The absurd
The sense of the absurd was what led me to choose the style of representation (plus the contest honors the comic) childish, caricature, with many strong colors (with what was intended to reinforce the violent sense) and that was raised as a fantastic scene.

Ahora little about the process

-First I made the base drawing with pencil 2B on guarro paper, I tried to make the movement and the figures express what I wanted.