That's right, I've finally finished the lines to my featured Marvel vs. Capcom drawing. With that, I've started advertising a contest for the next 60 days, (ending 12/6) whereby you can win a 1-year subscription to dA. 3 month subs and free commissions are available to the runners up.

Feel free to note me with any questions you have. I'm very excited to see what you all can do.

I know that it's hard to tell because I posted the Marvel vs. Capcom image well into it being worked on... but I like how far it's been one month, and I'm pretty close to done on the lines.

After having completed the lines for the last iteration of this project.... it struck me how much of a cluster-fuck it is. I know that people have been saying that from the first version, but I suppose that the gravity of that observation, the full reality had not sunk in. I guess I'm thick-skulled, or my pride was overpowering my reason.

In either case... the realization of the inherent truth of these statements lead to me reevaluating the drawing that I've been working on for three years now. Based on that, I tried to remake the work as a single piece, and not a collection of 9 or 18 or however many individual parts that could be subdivided again into 7-10 individual characters put together in a collage format.

I also decided that since it's going to take me some months yet to get this hashed out, I should post a live WIP. Obviously, I've gotten a lot further than than day 1 with the first image, but for the next few months, the featured image will grow every day until it's completion.

The WIP image is 25% the size of the full work, for everyone's sake.

Still chugging away, and there are two major developments.

1. I've complete all of the foreground lineart. Preview image 4 has everything except the border (I'm trying to fit an "Onslaught & Abyss" idea into the bordering) and the word marks. There are also some inter-sectional lines that need to be added.

2. Having had ZERO (OK One) contacts about coloring the work, I've decided to at least try doing it myself. Granted, I was probably going to try it myself in any case, but it would have been nice to see someone already talented give it a shot. My thanks go out to =shipain for submitting his version of the preview image 1.

Preview image 3 will be constantly update to show my daily progress in coloring, and when I feel that's done to my satisfactions, my hope is that coloring the remaining 8 images (plus background) will be a much quicker and higher quality process.

As you can see, I am working on a new version of my most popular work, the Marvel vs. Capcom piece. There are many improvements to be made, and the first preview image shows both a larger resolution, and a more consistant art style.

Truth be told, the base images from the first image were taken from a wide range of drawing dates, from as many as three years ago to a recently as the day I finished the lines. But the main problem for it, as has been pointed out in the comments, is that the colors are terrible.

I'm learning to color images, of course, but I would rather have someone who already has a knack for it give it a go. That being said, anyone who download and colors the "preview image(s)" (more will be coming), and posts it, might well earned a paid gig to color the whole bloody thing (which will be about 9 times as large as the individual preview image(s)).