Right, so I pulled out of the previous GFX round due to not being able to finish on time. Since then I've been working on the image on-and-off and now it's finished only about a week late.
The picture shown below is half the size, the fullsize one can be found by clicking on the picture.
The full resolution pic (1280xs1024) is low quality...the high quality version is 1.1Mb and doesn't fit on photobucket xD Lame. Except I feel justified with the size...this was hand-drawn from start to finish.
I should have tidied up the sketchlines more, but wasn't actually intending to spend this much effort on it. Meh.
I don't know what colour to make Khale's (the jackal's) pimp-suit. Note that several characters have not been properly shaded, and there is still background to do.
I've been considering both the purple and the green before I even asked here, so we're on the same wavelength. Following these suggestions I think I'll go with purple AND green! But it'd have to be very narrow and very light green stripes like LS says...
...you know that's the colour scheme of the Joker, right? How awesome is that!
Khale is probably the least sympathetic (i.e. most evil) character in Strugglers. Through and through a despicable character that you wouldn't want to be in the same town in, yet hopefully the way I portray him, you can't help but feel a little sorry for him.
Nope, I actually finished the screnzy challenge in 5 days. Because I was writing a comic book script, it was tons easy. Dialogue is my writing strength, so it's easy to fill up the pages regardless of what kind of script I'm doing.
lol, Khale never meets Strip. They belong in separate fictional universes.
And Strip's probably not 'malleable' enough for Khale, so if they ever did meet, he would probably both hate her and be drawn to her for the challenge of trying to bend her to his will.
The idea first sparked back in 2007, in a very different form. I was creating the main character Nes and trying to put him in different clothes. Somehow I got this:
As you can see, most of that costuming has stayed with him over the past few years. I used the character in a different story but gave him a similar background, and decided to adapt it to a more modern context. Many of the other characters, who actually belong to a friend of mine, came from that same story.
However I dropped it sometime in 2007 and didn't touch it for a while because I was working on the novel instead (yes, that's been going for three years too). After a while I actually wanted to turn the cast of Strugglers into a fighting game... as you can now see though this role is being taken up with the WoM. Strugglers then gradually evolved without much direction until I realised that I really wanted to finish off a real, concrete story with most of the characters that had been lumped into it. The storyline has only gained a concrete form in the past couple of months, so now I'm just writing it all down and getting all the artistic concepts finalised.