Alas, Poor Cy-Kill

EDIT: Fixed the color whoopsie on Megs's helmet paint; blurred the edges of Cy-Kill's owie-splosion, and to a lesser extent, the Sword of Pain. Thanks for your helpful crits.

Finally.
I've been beating my head against this for months. It still doesn't hold a candle to [link] , but it'll have to do!

This is the amazing lineart [link] by the awe-inspiring

I have worshiped it for years; no lie. It's still one of my favorite things on DA, both the lines themselves () and *NorthernBanshee's colored version. ()

But I've always known that I'd have to color this one day or burst. So I finally got up the guts to ask. Thank you, Saskia!!!!!!!!!

This took me AGES. For the longest time, it just looked like a Lavendertron-based acid trip. The under-coloring looked HORRENDOUS. You have no idea. I knew from the outset that this one would need to have a bunch of layers of marker color, as well as a heavy dose of colored pencils, if it was to work at all.

It's... It's ok now, I guess. (I am unworthy!) There are some color things happening that I like.

It was TRICKY for me to wrap my brain around a picture in which the light source was a big glowy crystal sword and the exploding chest of a dying transformer (er, Go-Bot). Nothing is its natural color. Well, Cy-Kill's chest is still red-orange, but... yeah. You know what I mean. I layered a TON of colors on this to try and get it somewhat right.

(Poor guy. But it is his fault, I guess, for being the villian in a knock-off series. The resulting hatred is reflexive and undying.)

In other news, my scanner has suddenly decided that everything shall be scanned at washed-out/gray; and I'm back to fighting for my colors. I hope to figure out how to fix this soon. For now, I just automatically move the slider to -20 brightness and +20 contrast... and progress from there.......... *sigh* It was working so well there, for a while! What happened, Scanner?

Anyway, I hope you like it.
I have a major inferiority complex in regards to this one, but I guess my version has its own positive aspects. I'm still not worthy, but we all must keep on practicing, or we won't ever learn nothin!

Thanks again, great ones, for sharing your art!

Markers and colored pencil on gray cardstock

_{Tee hee hee -- Grapple was greatly disturbed by this pic.}