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After his car was totaled in the race against the Downtown gang boss (see Knockout, it's in the back, center right), he was out of any way to continue his crusade to shut down Túl's illegal street racing racket. However, the horse who got him out of downtown, Diji, had an idea; "I've got family out in the sticks, who, if I remember correctly, should have an old War-era Ute out there that hasn't seen pavement in over a decade." Ax'L's hesitant, he's never been much of a mechanic, Anne had helped him keep his old car running while he worked to clear the streets of downtown. "Ran when parked!" he uttered with a wink.

The car was a wreck; sun-bleached, flat tires, chewed through brake lines, bone dry radiator, the cabin was a nest to the local rodent population, but with some muscle she turned over, and with some fresh fenrite and a bit of "go-juice" she managed to bark off at Diji, damn near burning his eyebrows off. By the end of the day, Ax'L had found a new set of wheels to combat the Inner City gang. She's unconventional, she's old, but she's a runner, and still has some life left in her.

Was excited to finally draw Diji in one of these pieces and keep the story going! This was also a piece very roughly blocked out in blender, after a bunch of toying around with the camera and focal length to really push the perspective. Also I wanted to do go for more yellows and optimistic colors, since that's the color I feel best associates with his character. Diji is a former member of the Downtown gang that helped Ax'L escape after the events of "Knockout" as a thank you for essentially freeing him from a very shitty boss. He's absolutely going to make more appearances as the story goes along, and I can't wait to show more of it!

As always, thank you to everyone, whether you read the description or not, for checking out my artwork! Storytelling is something I've always sucked at but always wanted to try to do more, and this is my latest venture! Hopefully I'll have a proper name for the whole thing in the future!

Vehicles pictured/heavily referenced:

1976 Chevrolet El Camino

1973 small riding lawnmower

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"Downtown: Finale: Knockout"

Ax'L managed to cross the finish line first by a surprising few seconds before the Upper Class gang leader. Before he could complete a sigh of relief, the Gang leader side-swipped him shouting through the wind and the slowly picking up rain:

"YOU DIDN'T WIN! IT'S NOT OVER TILL I SAY IT'S OVER, ASSHOLE!"

The two proceed to wind through wet city streets, alerting the police to give chase as turns get sloppier, paint gets traded harder and harder, until eventually Ax'L manages to cause the boss to lose control and wrap his car around a pole, which sends his own car rolling across the street with the police following suit.

All cars totalled, Ax'L crawls out from under his car to see the Boss fall out of his own mass of tangled, warped metal, brandishing a handgun. Ax'L gets in too quick, dodging the two rounds that got squeezed off and the two trade blows in the pouring rain in the center of downtown. Eventually Ax'L manages a knockout blow and leaves him out cold in the middle of the street as law enforcement quickly circles in. To his surprise, a member of the guys gang, a Horse named Diji, quickly pulls over and shouts him over to provide a quick getaway.

Another DOOZY! This is the first time I've blocked out a drawing in 3D in a LONG time, and I think it helped out alot! The hardest part of this piece was the crashed Bentley Brooklands (Which there are NO detailed underside shots of) and all the ads I came up with. Alot of which are in universe references, alot are callouts to friends (Check out Lewi's Noodle house and Claret Age!). I tried to keep everything late 90s with the style of ads and the cars as well.

Cars:

1998 Bentley Brooklands

1995 Ford Crown Vic

1989 Chevy Caprice

1992 Mazda Miata

1992 Acura Integra

1997 Chevy Caprice

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This piece went through at least 3 major revisions but I'm glad to have seen it through! I wanted to expand on the world of the piece "Chasing the Apocalypse" with a full rewind to the very start of the story, with the main character "Ax'L Turbski" lining up for his first race. Giving him a last second rundown of the course is former Fenrite miner Darryl Bedrock (much to his sister Anne's [who can be found running across the street in the back] displeasure of getting involved with this stuff).

I wanted the setting to be about 10 or so years after the end of this huge 20 year galactic conflict where everyone's expanding back out across the stars, and the story takes place on the most popular of the former frontier planets, Vakmerő. technology wise they have advanced past the "Space 80's" and are into the late 90s, roughly 1997 ish. With everyone expanding to new planets they need fuel-efficient ways of getting around wherever they settle down, and as such tit's given birth to an automotive renaissance, and this coupled with the rapid expansion of the size of Vakmerő's port city, Túl, has led to a growing illegal street racing racket being run by the city's growing gangs, who fight over who the city "belongs to".

There's more to this that I'd love to expand on with future illustrations but in the here and now please enjoy!

The cars included from left to right:

3rd Gen Camaro

2nd Gen Supra

Renalt 5 Turbo

Porsche 914

First gen Miata

Chevy V-10

Dodge Rampage

Characters included are (From left to right)

Photographer: No name, Kiki the Fennec, Avvolito the Bird, Maxwell the Dino, Kylie Williams, That other former Miner I never named, The Falco Guy, Ax'L Turbski, Anne Bedrock, Darryl Bedrock from my hothlonian ponies blog(that's all still cannon they just aren't, y'know, ponies anymore lol)

Thanks again for looking at my work, I'll try to post all of this up here regularly in the future!

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Inspired to draw this after playing through Midnight Club 3 earlier this year. Without a doubt the second most frantic, intense racing game I’ve ever played.

This one took forever, Hope you like it! 

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Finally finished this! I’ve loved this audio for YEARS but there’s no real video to go along with it, people just pass around the audio, so I animated a couple of my characters to it! 

Showing your non-WoW-playing friend that new expansion pack

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Another 1 hour challenge, wanted to draw a skateboard girl dragon.

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1 hour challenge, drew an old character of mine I eventually want to write a full story for someday.

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1 hour challenge: Ranger from Quake 1

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This took WAY too long but here it is! A while ago I did a replaythrough of Halo 1, and surprisingly enough I found that “The Library” was the level I had the most fun in, and it gave me the inspiration to draw this!

Hope you like it!

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Finally finished another animation! Hope you like it!

Audio is from Coming to America.

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Titanfall 2 A-Wall custom execution I came up with!

Hope you like it!

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Though I uploaded this but I guess not! Here it is! I got hung up on the background for WAY too long and scrapped it for colors and a foreground!

Hope you like it!

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And done! I don’t practice enough perspective stuff so I gave it a try!

Hope you like it!

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I FINISHED IT! This is by and large the most complicated thing I have EVER drawn up to this point, and I could not be happier with it. I love Titanfall to death and I’ve wanted to do a proper illustration since the first game back in 2014, but it took until now for me to get myself to a point where I can do it right. 

If anyone would like a print of this let me know because I am ABSOLUTELY making one for myself.

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Test image I made for the game I’m working on, I might return to this later on.

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Took that inktober drawing and turned it into a full pic! Hope people like it!

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Last animation of the year! Finished it yesterday, just barely made it!