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Illsutration for FASA's Battletech book "Mechwarrior Companion", 1995Pen & Ink
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Don't they pack clothes for this sort of thing? Its uncommon for a bear to go unprepared.
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Wouldn't make for as interesting a drawing though...
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Easily my favorite art piece from that book, it's a pleasure to finally find the artist! Players would ask "We're not wearing much in these 'mechs, what if I have to eject?" It'd show them this picture and say "Pack an enviro suit in the back of the chair, and hope you make that Piloting roll."
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So glad you like it, and it's GREAT that it proved so useful for your games. As an artist AND a gamer, I always strived (strove?) to be not just pretty, but relevant ; )
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It's one of my faves from the entire Battletech series. You also did the Natasha Kerensky piece in the same book didn't you? I honestly never liked the Clans much (Lyran Commonwealth, woo!) but seeing the moment that Natasha won her famous Bloodname was a scene that needed drawing.
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I did do that one! And yeah, two of my all time favourites
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Uber tech coolness~! Love it! Very, very cool work as usual.
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The cooling suit's a much more advanced take on the low-tech Inner Sphere vest rig... ah, who am I kidding? I'm looking at the genetically-refined eye candy wearing the cooling suit!
Someone - I don't care who - take the poor girl prisoner and give her a parka and snow pants!
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Very cool (hah!) piece of art! Really deserves to be put in that book.
Also, interesting illustration of a cooling suit. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of one before, but the description in the books sounds similar, and it just looks amazing here - especially with that little flower decoration on the right thigh; nice detail!
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Thanks! It's obviously been a long time since I drew it, but I'm pretty sure I'd seen previous drawings of the suits, which I loosley based mine on..
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Thanks! It's one the ones I'm most proud of
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Ha! Asian Clan cheesecake! Move over, Black Widow! Very fetching. And I like the woman, too!
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No problem at all. Of course, if you had said something like "aaand this one is modeled off my lovely wife", I probably would have started sending hate mail.
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It, um... burned up in a cockpit fire. Yeah, that's it...
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Looks a little too clean.
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It's fan service. The suit can never be *too* clean with this type of picture. You're not *actually* trying to see that suit doing its job, are you?
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Well, though I can understand fan service, I prefer it when MechWarriors are fully suited.
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If she was in the cockpit, I'd agree. She's not. Furthermore, I seen lotsa male Mechwarriors wearing nothin' but a coolant vest, a neurohelmet and a speedo. No one complains about *them* being underdressed. Darned if I am going to gripe about this young lady being in the same condition. Especially as she is a vision of feminine pulchritude.
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Yeah, MechWarriors generally wear as little as possible, simply because it gets *very* hot in the cockpit. It's why even men often wear hotpants there. 
Also, note the description regarding "cooling tubes + body stocking" here: [link]
I would say the artist is spot on in his visualization of this pilot. The fanservice is merely a bonus, but you'd actually see men wear the same thing.
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If I was a Mechwarrior, I'd wear a full pilot/combat hybrid suit.
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Yes.... but would you also be a stunning vision of femininity? With a gazillion young men's eyeballs following your every (scantily clad) move? That - THAT - is the question, sir or ma'am. If you were a Mechwarrior, you would be living in a game designed in the mid-1980s. You would be at the whim of the artist!
This artist's taste in revealing cockpit wear suit me juuuuussst fine.
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If I was a MechWarrior, it'd be in my own original unit, the 3rd Hellraiser Dragoons.
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Hard to imagine a Ghost Bear warrior feeling chilly, even in full Mechwarrior garb.
Love this one, too.
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