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Clutch45 — Guard the pass? Leave it to ME!

Published: 2012-05-03 07:03:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 900; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 43
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Description ALRIGHTY! For any who were interested, and didn't see ~Emayai 's upload (which can be found here [link] MAKE SURE YOU GO FAV THIS ONE TOO), here's the full size coloered version!
Since this was a collab, I can hardly take credit for this whole beautiful thing! Here's how we broke down the jobs:

Initial sketch, digital inking- Me, ~Clutch45
All colors, shading/highlights, distant city (and copying some more bots into the pic)- My partner in crime, ~Emayai

I'm so VERY excited about this one... Em and I have bot worked ourselves out of our minds getting this done, and I love the final result SO much! The colors really did turn out... SO freaking amazing... I'm so glad I partnered with you! It's certainly been a pleasure!
SO! Here is the artist's comments from each of us, copy-pasted from each of our deviations:

Ok, This is what I've been working on for the past couple of months! Yes, I know I have a commission for ~NaniV that I still haven't finished, as well as a piece for ~Imaginatik 's comic that I'm still working on, and I was actually planning on not entering this contest... BUT I ended up giving in. This is my half of an entry for *DanSyron 's Eye of the Storm contest! The contest requires you to work in a team of two people, and you have to use Dan's characters. My partner is ~Emayai , and I now hand this piece over to that wonderful artist to render it colored as well as add some other details!

Now, to the pic itself, for the whole thing I was thinking "How would Clutch interact with Syron and crew? Better still, how would said crew likely react to Clutch?" Let me tell you, I LOVE Clutch's ego. It is, without a doubt, my favorite thing about him. Because it gets him into SO much trouble... so very easily. And by the looks on the faces of Syron and Cassira (both of which are Dan's characters), he's made his very accurate first impression on both of them.
The whole "I can handle this" thing... they both know he's full of it. You don't have to know Clutch on a personal level to know that much about him.
As for the how and why of Kaius (Dan's main villain and Syron's father) is teamed up with Rage is anyone's guess, but after reading Kaius' profile and what led him on the path to madness, it was clear that he and Rage would get along. Well. Orion (Emayai's character) is probably only there for entertainment and to see if there's anyone here to give him a good challenge. From what I've read of him in Em's comic, he's not really the world domination type (anymore, as he used to be), so I like to think of him as just not caring in the slightest what happens, as long as he finds some fun. On the other hand, maybe he's had promises made to him about finding his lost ancestors... the mysterious former General that leads Rage is very resourceful in that way...
I worked really hard on all their expressions, and making them fit their personalities, such as the smug smirk on Orion's (guy with energy sword) face (much more deserved than Clutch's), Syron's anger and frustration at being shoved, Cassira's (on the extreme gear-like shield) exasperation at how Clutch clearly underestimated the enemy mixed with anger at how he's treating Syron creating an overpowering cocktail of sheer venom spewing rage, Kaius (on the computer screen) excited about the progress being made, and Rage, well, being nuts.

WOW, dude, I am seriously rambling...

Finally, after over a month of working on this, we agree it's finally ready! This is a collab piece between myself and ~Clutch45 for *DanSyron 's 'Eye of the Storm' contest!

I'll be honest, when I first saw the lineart that Clutch gave to me I think I nearly fainted. Never in my life have I ever worked on something so detailed! But once I knuckled down into it, I found myself revelling in the challenge, especially if I paced myself (my friends know this when I started spamming them with how much I loved the trees!). Of course winning or even placing in contests is grand, but all I wanted to achieve for this was to do Clutch's lineart justice and not let him down. As long as he's happy with it, I'm happy with it.

Seriously I would never have done anything like this had I done the lineart side. This would be nothing without his skills and amazing attention to detail, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to work on something like this. Really, his lineart = da bomb. Go give him love <3

For information on what's going on with the pic, go see the lineart as Clutch has it all planned out there. For my input, I just wanted to create a bit of a... polluted background? Tried to make the city somewhat industrial, and then the river look toxic. Took a few attempts but hopefully got it to look right!


Well, whatever happens remember two things. One, thank you for asking me to be your partner Clutch! And two, SAI has a layer limit of 256.
......wat

Colours/Orion (c) ~Emayai
Syron/Cassira/Kaius (c) *DanSyron
Lineart/Clutch/Rage/Bots (c) ~Clutch45
Lineart -> [link]
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Comments: 17

Sammi-Psycho [2012-06-05 20:11:16 +0000 UTC]

You and your amazingful drawings. <333

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Clutch45 In reply to Sammi-Psycho [2012-06-06 06:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks!

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ClearFog [2012-05-05 15:51:38 +0000 UTC]

I never really got to Commenting, but this is pretty BadAss.
Also considering how original it looks!

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Clutch45 In reply to ClearFog [2012-05-06 08:07:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks SO much! It great to hear that, ~Emayai and I worked really hard on it!

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ClearFog In reply to Clutch45 [2012-05-06 08:18:06 +0000 UTC]

Np! you did well!

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grim-zitos [2012-05-04 23:59:18 +0000 UTC]

nice

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Clutch45 In reply to grim-zitos [2012-05-05 07:35:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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grim-zitos In reply to Clutch45 [2012-05-06 03:25:57 +0000 UTC]

Np bud

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AgentRouge [2012-05-04 23:28:56 +0000 UTC]

Your trees are lovely too. 83

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Clutch45 In reply to AgentRouge [2012-05-05 07:37:45 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks! I actually quite enjoy drawing trees. Well, tree trunks... not so much the leaves.

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AgentRouge [2012-05-04 23:20:17 +0000 UTC]

Lordy. You can never make a simple picture. And Rage there at the bottom, enjoying himself way too much~ There's so much to look at here

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Clutch45 In reply to AgentRouge [2012-05-05 07:36:49 +0000 UTC]

HAHA! Yeah... that's the truth... everything I do is so far over the top... And YES, rage! Oh MAN, he's even funny when you can't hear him...

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5pe4ker5 [2012-05-04 00:24:17 +0000 UTC]

Wow... really awesome! I love looking at this, there's so much detail

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Clutch45 In reply to 5pe4ker5 [2012-05-04 05:10:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks SO MUCH! Be sure you go and tell ~Emayai what you think, too!

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5pe4ker5 In reply to Clutch45 [2012-05-04 17:58:38 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome! I shall!

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coral-striker [2012-05-03 18:52:43 +0000 UTC]

I REALLY like how the sky has such an influence on the mood. It's dark and freaky and I LOVE it! Only thing is the leaf texture seems too uniform and therefore out of place, or perhaps the contrast could've been pumped up a little in that area. but otherwise kudos to you both, this is one badass picture!

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Clutch45 In reply to coral-striker [2012-05-03 21:01:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, thanks! It was a huge undertaking, and I love how it turned out! I guess I can see what you mean about the textures, but I'm not too worried about it. In all truth, it's just so amazing to see my art done up with another skilled artist's colors!

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