Concept Art
Concept Art
Pictured below, you can find all of the various concept art and sketches that I drew up over the years (mostly in the early 2000s) to illustrate covers of sorts for the story of Rebel Unit VVG.
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Character Sketches
Character Sketches
Outside of the main trio (Maxwell Golding, Xion Zeros, and Sylvie Tripper), I haven't done much character work of the individual cast for this story, but there's a few token exceptions that you can find below.
I remember doing the image on the left in class one day. I was simply putting pen to paper of how I imagined Commander Selena Strike would look like, only to go nuts with doodling some ideas for how the other characters could possibly look like around her.
The image on the right I don't have a bigger scan of as of this posting, but it was essentially the cover art that I had originally designed for this story, roughly around Scenario 17 (I think). By that point, I had a firm grasp of how I wanted the VVGs to look along with the core trio of characters.
From left to right: Maxwell Golding, Commander Selena Strike (seated), Candace Barrett (standing), Xion Zeros, and Sylvie Tripper.
Easily my favorite sketch that I have ever done for this story. I think I did this sometime between 2010-2014 when I got the urge to compile this story all in one place from off of FictionPress.
Giant Mecha Concepts
Giant Mecha Concepts
I have a confession to make. While I love giant robots/mecha, I absolutely suck donkey balls at actually designing them from scratch. If there were a means to create original mecha that doesn't look "silly" in Daz Studio, I would have taken the dive at that by now, but no dice. The only other alternative that I have heard about is learning Hexagon, but that's an even bigger time sink in terms of learning 3D modeling than I barely have time with currently with Daz Studio.
For now though, you can enjoy this look back into the past at my humble beginnings when I was toying around with giant robots of my own for this story.
This image was going to be an alternative cover of sorts for the story on FictionPress but I never got around uploading it. This image stayed in my sketchbook for years until I finally got around scanning it.
You know those images of the Voltron: Defender of the Universe (Go-Lion from the '80s) pilots during the end credits of every episode? That was the vibe that I was going with for this image along with the other one to the right.
At the time, I was really into reading those Gundam technical manuals that Sunrise were releasing at the time for the series that were coming stateside and I wanted to do similar stats and specifics here. This is the oldest drawing I have of the story's protagonist, Xion Zeros, too.
Much like the design for the Nightmare Zero and its pilot, Xion Zeros, to the left, I wanted to do the same for the Elegance-12 and Sylvie Tripper. The armbands/tassels were an early design decision that just stuck after all of these years drawing her. I honestly don't remember where it came from even to this day.
In hindsight, Elegance-12's pose is rather silly with it leaning onto its busterblade since that energized weapon could easily pierce the ground its standing on. (Grins) Oh to be young and stupid again...
Cover Art
Cover Art
When I was writing the first eight chapters of this story, I was motivating myself to keep going by doing these "covers" of sorts to garner interest to my few friends at the time that I was sharing the story with before posting it entirely onto FictionPress for the remainder of its run.
The cover art for the first pair of scenarios was inspired by the Big O anime. I think it was around episode 15 (Season 2, Episode 2: "Negoiations with the Dead") where Roger Smith debuted a new weapon for the Big O that was a gatling cannon of sorts. I was already a fan of the Gundam Heavyarms from Gundam Wing, so that just solidified the concept of giving the N-Zero a similar weapon.
I had always seen Q as that reoccurring antagonist, much like Char in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam franchise, who will constantly challenge the main cast at every opportunity. Scenario 03 and 04 hit that point home with introducing him and his colleague, Midnight. The pose from Q's Zenith VVG here is directly from one of the marketing/promotional artwork I stumbled online for Zech Marquise's Tallgeese in Gundam Wing.
Chelsea Chaos was Xion's estranged ex-girlfriend and former member of the Havocs' gang that returned as an enemy. In hindsight, I can't believe I designed so many of these characters with dark hair. Chelsea's scarf was definitely Cyborg 009 inspired. I was really getting a kick out of that show in the early 2000s when I first saw it on Toonami.
Out of the covers that I did for this story, I honestly like this one the least since I can see so many flaws with it now. Not to mention that some of the dialogue I cringe at too when I go back and read that chapter...
This cover was one of the first and only looks at Shiva and Chelsea's respective VVGs too.
Easily the favorite of the covers that I did for this story, just from how I inked it and how I drew the details, such as the blood on Chelsea's face and her tattered clothing while Xion looms behind her while they are both surrounded by the flames of her destroyed VVG. I would love to go back and digitally color this someday.
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