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SoullessWanderer (Nov 24, 2003)

This was a quicky and I did not clean up the line art because my mouse was making me extremely pissed off. This is the first time I have actually completely colored something and I know that I screwed up severely as the mecha looks perfectly flat. I have some time today and I would like to do a decent picture that is actually worthy of the intermediate board so if anyone has some pointers on perspective, coloring, shading, clean line art, or artistic technique in general please tell me.

I felt that I had to do this mecha to redeem myself for an unintentional slight I may have perpetrated ( I really do not know if this is true or not as the artist never actually said he was offended). I shall never again mistake a between-the-legs-cockpit mecha for a headless mecha.

SoullessWanderer (Nov 24, 2003)
drawn in 1 hour 33 min

SoullessWanderer (edited Nov 24, 2003)
drawn in 20 min

I am currently laying down the base colors and am trying to decide how to shade this. I have never actually attempted to cell-shade before so I hope I do not screw up too badley.

F.Y.I. I did not take my time with the line art because my mouse (the school's mouse actually) was beginning to make me contemplate throwing it thru a wall.

SoullessWanderer (Nov 24, 2003)
drawn in 41 min

marcello (Nov 24, 2003)

Ya, you should seriously consider some cleaner lineart, it's not hard, you just need to go slowly. Might I also suggest some more colors in the shading, maybe even some speculars.

mikhail (Nov 26, 2003)

it has potential just clean it up and but some nice metallic shading in there

Neko (Dec 2, 2003)

I'm a lover of technology especially mechs and stuff like that and this one's design looks awesome! Wish they'd do something like that.

The center eye looks rather... odd. Is it more like a humaneye or a round cyborg one with a lid on above it?