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Mega Man: Battle Damage

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This was a suggestion I received last year at the conventions - Mega Man injured but ready to continue the fight, kneeling with several of the Weapon Master weapons sticking out of him.  When it comes to taking requests, admittedly most of the time I don't.  I'll listen, but there's just so many things I /could/ do and not enough time to do them that, when it comes to creating material for conventions I will work on only what inspires me.  I can't just make things I think will sell.  However, when I heard this suggestion, I really liked it right away.  I've always been a big fan of Mega Man, and I even already have another convention poster that is Mega Man related.  So I wrote down his suggestion and kept it with me just in case the Mega Man inspiration bug hit me - which it recently did.  From the get go I imagined it with a pure white background, with a lot of negative space at the top half of the poster.  Adding the quote was something that came to me near the end, when I figured I should have /something/ at the upper half of the poster even if the negative space is intentional.

I searched for Mega Man quotes but most of the significant ones are made by other people (and not necessarily talking /about/ Mega Man himself.  I was willing to use a quote that was either from Mega Man, or from someone else talking about him).  For now, I went with a fraction of Mega Man's quote in the MM7 game when he is tempted to step over the #1 Rule of Robotics and shoot Wily's scheming behind.  The full quote is "I am more than just a robot.  Die, Wily!"  I don't imagine Wily's standing right there when Mega Man's getting messed up - I get the impression that the blue bomber is trying to get through all of the robot masters to get to him.  Thus, the whole quote didn't feel applicable here.  I did have "I am more than just a robot." but I took off the beginning of it because I more wanted to imply that someone's talking /about/ him rather than him saying it himself.  That quote didn't feel appropriate coming from his mouth in this situation.  I am willing to change the quote to something else, as I'm not 100% on it but it was the best that I could find.  The Mega Man games aren't renowned for their deep thinking haha!  I did try making up a quote of my own, like "No matter what it takes, I will stop you." but I feel it'd have more oomph if it was an actual quote rather than something made up from me (though again I am certainly willing to take suggestions!)

Also, the rendering style of this poster is much different than what I normally post here, though it's not the first time I've ever used this style.  I rarely use this rendering style because it's very time-consuming.  It took me about 4 days on and off to finish just this, as simple as it is.  I used it in this case because it's one of the few images that, while it was a sketch, I could see in this style - if that makes sense.  Mega Man's simplistic design makes it easier to get those basic shapes down.  The shading was somewhat experimental.  I'd draw the shape of the shadow, and fill it in with gradients.  I've seen similar shading styles used in comics like Unsounded and I love it.  I struggle a little bit with getting the gradients to behave the way I want them to and not have them be too general, if that makes sense.  In this poster, I also used gradient mesh for some of Mega Man's armor to give it some shine and dark areas underneath the shadow and highlight layers.  I'm hoping the shading will have a little more dimension than my usual shading style.  It still needs some work but you can't become great at something until you surpass being kind of sucky or mediocre, to kind of good.  :) 

A big thank you to :iconMadHatter-10-6: for her awesome suggestions and ideas!  She was an especially huge help with getting the burns on Mega Man's face, chest and arm to look right.

Anyway, I hope you like it!  I will be selling these (sans the watermark on the bottom right corner) at this year's anime conventions! 
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Wkayy's avatar
I'm pretty sure that Quick Boomerang would kill him...