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hansime — Energon on the rocks
Published: 2005-03-13 14:19:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 4207; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 1532
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After days of inking it's FINALLY done. The lineart that is, IMO, of course. Crits are naturally welcome as always.
Especially tips on inking in shading and what to pay attention to would be greatly valued. Note that this is the SMALL version, being 30% of the size I inked at. Meaning there IS a high res version of 2500 by 3500 which I want to be able to be printed on a poster format once it's colored, therefore all colorists who want to take a stab at this please contact me and I'll gladly provide you with the image (the high res is pretty big at about 1 Mb), so be sure you have enough room if you want to use obtain it by e-mail.
I would love to see any colored version(s), so please contact me once you've colored it too. 
Anyway, why this sorta crossover image? Well, as TF Galaxy Force (aka TF Cybertron) is taking over from TF Energon (was about time too), also, if TF Cybertron (the US variant of Galaxy Force) is going to be a follow up to Energon, all things related and remembering of Energon *cough*Kickerandfriends*cough* must be vanquished and/or discarded swiftly and if needed with some excessive force.
Here we see Energon Strongarm lying at the feet of his conquerer, Galaxy Force (TF Cybertron) Starscream, also in the air we have En. Skyblast being hunted down by GF Thundercracker.
Was about time they used a Su-37 Flanker mold, although I would have prefered a remold of Starscream more representing War Within Thundercracker for him. Oh well, can't have it all. In the background Energon Autobotcity is being fought over (and also would be destroyed as the Autobot's needed a new base of operations in TF Galaxy Force/Cybertron).>.>
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PS: I came up with numerous titles for this image
"Will anyone else attempt to fill his shoes?"
"The Destrons strikes back"
"TF Energon is dead, all hail the new line!"
*many more*
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...would you mind if i colored this for a contest entry?
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Perhaps, what kind of contest would that be?
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well it'd be a reference picture for a custom action figure of starscream but i found one thats of the actual figure (the one i customized is from energon not cybertron)
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That'd be okay with me, thanks for asking. Please let me know how it works out for you.
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I will give this a shot to colour as soon as I am done my big job. I'll let you know how I fair when I get to it.
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Why is everyone so goodier then me? AND THATS STARSCREAM! *DROOLS* AHEM! I type in Thundercracker and i get this, something wrong with that, i have one TFC Starscream picture, i will post it up soon though! His eyes glow! MY STARSCREAM! Can i kiss him? yeah thats starscream not thundercracker, he a bit more smaller and chessier.
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Thankies!
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I think you did a very good amount of detail, this one looks way better thant those pics where they randomly split the armors in several parts. I think you did a great job on the damage, I only thing the guy's tires should be damaged as well
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So much intricate detail, I'm speechless. The only thing that I can really see that this piece needs from an "advanced critique" is well--light and shadow. I hear this all the time from my critics, and I have many of them, but it's true. In order for things to appear as they are in reality, they need light and shadow. You don't really have too many dark areas in the piece. Sure there are some blacks placed sparsely here and there, but for the piece to truly pop out you need to have more darks. Starscream definitely needs a shadow. Even if it's a rough shadow. You could put some solid rocky intrusion shadows as well on the background's rocks.
Nowadays, I'm certain that coloring tends to fix these "light and shadow" problems, but that is a lot of work for a colourist. Not only do they have to compose the palette for the colouring, but they now have to read your mind and place the values (lights/darks) of those colours. I've heard it many times from comic pros and editors when I show them my work, and they always tell me, light and shadow is IMPERATIVE. It saves headaches for the inker (if you have another person ink) and it saves headaches for the colourists as well. One editor actually told me that all of his inkers and colourists would send back my work if I didn't put in my shadows. Enough about that. I love the work, and I think it needs to be coloured. Great details, phenomenal likeness of GF-SS. Stellar piece.
Word.
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Damn man, thats intense, such details, its awe-inspiring. +fav
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Thanks ^_^ and thanks for the fav!
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Wow, this is sweeeeeeet. So much detail in the linework, I could stare at this for hours. 
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"Me Grimlock not low on memory!"
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Wow! Now that's a sexy picture. It almost works as a wouldbe comic cover to bridge the gaps between Energon and Cybertron.
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Hehe that was sorta the idea
Unfortunately...
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Wow Hans, this is looking exceptionally incredible! The precision you have here is simply awesome man. I can't wait to see it progress more! 
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Thanks man
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wow looking good man. my only crit is i feel it needs a mix of thick and thin lines.
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You're not the only one to complain about the linewidths though, the difference in thickness is better visible at the greater detail level, ah well, I might put out a corrected version with thicker lines later.
*Whenever I can get myself to do more work on this - seen it a bit too much from this side of the monitor last week > .>*
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hey dude. i hope ya do. if not then no prob.
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thanks, it has two linewidths though, I didn't want to use anything thicker this time (it just takes way too much time and I'm lazy 
Best excuse I've come up with yet. 
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O.O oo ahh...question, was the 'inking' done with Illustrator??
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No with PSP, I don't have illustrator 
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Ah thanks for the info ^o^ I hate illustrator case its so hard so I was thinking how the F*ck you did that
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Ooooooooohh pretty
Nice crisp lines...is the inking done on a tablet? or just with mouse on PS?
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I used the bezier curve in Paint Shop Pro (I never really use Photoshop) to trace and where needed (where not?) improve the sketch.
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Starscream's left hand seems awkward to me, like its in an unnatural position. Otherwise its totally awesome!
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Thanks for the crit
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hands are evil...very, very evil...
any luck finding a colourist?
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yupyup
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Coolness!
I honestly don't understand how "Cybertron" is going to be a sequel to "Energon"
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Heh. Same here, the transition Hasbro planned from Energon to Cybertron doesn't make sense, however, I think Hasbro just wants to milk out the Energon peops by trying to tie them to the line before hand. It's weird though, as what I've seen from Galaxy Force (up to eps. 8 or 9?) doesn't relate to TF Energon in any way. There's some other problems with it too (like why the hell are they scanning altmodes if their botformat doesn't change one bit? ie. they already WERE those altmodes... Oh well, unfortunately for now Transformers won't reach the Macross level on the well thought out story part, I fear they'll be treated more or less as the DBZ/Power Ranger robots in Galaxy Force. 
*cringe*
Must be me though.
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I dont mind most of the fub (the alt mode thing) but how in the hell will they explain the sudden amnesia of giant robots fighting all over earth?
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Masshypnosis.
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They'll use Keychain G1 Autobots to bring you in to trance, then, after you've bought the whole line, they wipe your memory of buying the stuff by hypnotising you again. Then they make you purchase more lines until you're broke.
They figured this stuff out several years back (up to a decade) already. >.>
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LOL, no....
But really, Super Link had a lot of human interaction and all of a sudden they forget abouyt TFs and all the bases are gone etc.
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I think it doesn't take too much massaging to get Cybertron (or at least Galaxy Force) onto the end of Energon. Oh, it's not perfect, but I think it can be done. (After all, the comics were going to flow straight on anyway.)
Anyway, really here to talk about your picture. Great! Makes me all the gladder I've ordered the GF Starscream figure. And if you're still open to colourists, I'd like to have a go. You say there's a higher-res one that you want colourists to go at? (I can't promise speed or perfection, but I'd love doing it anyway.)
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Thats really damn sweet
and I'd love to give a shot at coloring it.... that doesn't mean it will be good... just I'm practicing coloring stuff
Koenmajr@hotmail.com
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amazingly clean and detailed. it actually reminds me of some of unicron-wmd's work.
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Is it just me, or do they make the various TF' just bulkier, bulkier and BIGGER?! :-D It amuses me to no ends.
Workwise... argh, the DETAILS. I'm impressed!!!
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Don't you just love the bulky look?
And thanks!
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