This was a commission done for R3 Member Zhanzero, the character being another videogame babe, Bastila Shan, from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. What a blast this one was! The character wears this tooled and textured leather armor kit, and in working out how to render it (not being a textrure renderer in my usual style) we discovered that Roland actually always interpreted it, while gaming, as tracery or gilding, while I saw it from the image refs as being a worn leather finish. So, in the color presentation, I did a version where I worked out a fine orange gilded tracery pattern, complete with secret TRDL easter eggs hidden within. Also, though I continue to draw sub-par lightsabers next to the rad raytraced intensity of the CGI refs, I thought she had pretty cool hair, with those strands across the forehead…

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This was a commission for Zanzhero, that fine fellow, an accomplished inker in his own right (fan in excess of my ability, certainly!) and fellow Hitchy enjoyer. Roland digs on the video game babes! This one is Rikku, his favorite character from Final Fantasy, who was,i thought, a pretty interesting character design. I love drawing Japanese characters from animation and game franchises because the designers strike with unusual or unexpected color, composition and pattern choices that tend to intrigue me. It’s just so DIFFERENT from what i’d expect to do myself, so drawing them involves really studying the character model sheets or refs, where available, to get a sense of what’s going on. This was no exception. I had fun trying to work out the detail in the vest, the arm armor plate and the bracer, etc. I also think this was one of my better cute girl faces… anyway, I did two versions, one with a dusty storm background and one with blue sky, and the latter was the client selection.

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This was a piece commissioned for R3 General IronLung’s Aids Ride preparation celebration, by R3 vet Musical Druid. The challenge was simply to draw Lung crossing the finish line in victory. What an awesome commission subject! Now, the Aids Ride is not a race, but I went ahead and treated it as such here, adding an impossibly fast crest over an impossibly high climb, recognizing Lung’s recent victories over hill climbing on his fixed gear. Since he’s riding one of my bikes in the Aids Ride, Toro, I wanted to draw him on his own, so here he’s on his fixed gear, Schwixie, which I’ve tried to render faithfully. I got most of the details right. I missed a kickstand mount brazed to the frame behind the cranks. You’ll note the bike brand, i hope. I’ve faithfully recreated his preferred riding gear, including clip in shoes, camo pants (causing the Aids Ride people to sweat) and his new Team Lope riding jersey, which was a surprise reveal for him last night, when I presented MD’s piece to him. He’s got a Camelbak on, however, it’s stuffed with bacon, because, well, of course it is. The crowd might look familiar. Anyway, some edits to be done include touching up the bike and adding his sleeve, which i forgot to digitally incorporate!

Good luck to one Lung on his ride, and let he be immortalizeds forever here!

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Dr. Go Kuniyoshi is considered by many in to be the father of the posthuman development concept, responsible for much of the technique and methodology used in the early posthuman programs.

Art and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Name: Dr. Go Kuniyoshi
Affiliation: Covert Star

Attributes:

Melee: 5
Reflex: 10
Muscle: 5
Vigor: 5
Acumen: 50
Observation: 40
Will: 15

Life: 25
Influence: 105

Abilities: N/A

Origin:

Very little is officially known about the majority of Dr. Go Kuniyoshi’s life. His official records were redacted sometime prior to his publicly acknowledged involvement with the Japanese defense team Covert Star, and all prior records of his public service, government employment and ven university affiliation were purged by the Japanese government. It is believed by some that his well-known reputation as the father of the posthuman development movement is, in fact, more accurate than generally understood by the posthuman development community, as highly classified intelligence recovered from the wreckage of an Arges research vessel in the Antarctic revealed records suggesting his involvement in posthuman experiments that far predate the earliest known posthuman programs on record. Some believe he single-handedly created the earliest chemical and nonotechnological hybrid treatments that led to early physiological optimization courses, though the vast majority of records from the period have been lost, and most of his work in the later periods of posthuman history have involved either confidential project work for private corporate supernormal programs, or the best known of his work, the development of the Covert Star Initiative for the japanese government. Despite his name and credentials, Dr. Go Kuniyoshi is of unknown ethnic background and age, and has never given public interviews about his history or past work, only the very rare lecture on posthuman methodology breakthroughs given at three conventions held in Switzerland, Belgium and Tokyo, respectively, before his retreat from public life after the Covert Star team’s official debut on the world stage.

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He’s a scientist who gets no love! He’s a little bit grab-assy. He’s Doctor Otto Octavius!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Octopus

Any version!

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pbr seen!

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This is a piece done for the R3 Jam, the subject being Warren Worthington III, known as Arcangel.

Since, in the 90s, Warren was mutated into one of Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen, with the intent of destroying homo sapiens and enslaving homo superior, and this got a spiffy, if garishly colored, costume design courtesy of (I think) Walt Simonson (?) I thought I’d play up that angle, as it was the first time he was referred to as ‘Arcangel’. I darkened the color palette and simplified the wings. The idea here is that they won, first of all, and that Arcangel is the ruler of wherever the hell, let’s say North America. He doesn’t need to sprout wings to fly, since they are entirely mechanical and he just hovers and flies around however he wants, in this form, anyway. So, to give him a regal and creepy appearance, I have him forming basically a long cloak with the wing structure. Plus, a look back? From a Horseman? Not good.

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Alchera is the New Zealand/ Australian regional defense team.

Concept, Design: Thom Chiaramonte and Joao Marques
Illustration: Joao Marques

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Alchera

Base of Operations: Sydney
National Affiliation: Australia, New Zealand

Leaders: Wallaby and Tarawera
Members: Karbon Kate
The Player
Lyge
Tsunami
Tangkuinya

Developed as a regional defense team, Alchera was the product of the larger Alcheran Initiative, a joint Australian/ New Zealand posthuman development program covertly funded by the American Government, in order to fight the specter of global posthuman terrorism. The team was immensely popular abroad, though divisive at home, being comprised of members that represented disparate social and ethnic classes in both countries. Further, the public relationship between team leaders Wallaby, a white Australian, and Tarawera, a Maori activist, would lead to criticism from the conservative parties in both governments, and instigate an uprising of ethnic clashes in the years that followed. Despite their difficult roles in their home region, when appearing in other parts of the world as part of rescue operations, or pursuing posthuman criminal groups, Alchera were met with respect and adulation by the international community.

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Well, the timing on this pull is a little off, since they all just got imploded or multiploded or consumed or what have you. But take your pick… draw any Kirby Fourth World Gods: Darkseid, Orion, etc. any or all. Frankly, draw a new new Final Crisis god if you’ve seen them already. I’m sure the submission provider won’t mind…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Gods

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The current jam: Warren Worthington III. You can draw him in any of his Angel, Archangel, or non-costumed incarnations, or any what if? or Exiles reality, or Ultimate reality or your own design or what have you! Give this old school X-Man some love!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Worthington

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