Marauder II Lineart (Patreon)

Been a while since did any lineart myself, back when finishing off the Awesome, Commando, and Catapult for the GoAC box.
All our KS mechs need to be inked up not just for the KS project, but also the new Recognition Guides coming out, so we're working away on quite a bit.

The Marauder II had a slightly different design process which caused it to lack a more subtle reference sketch/art, making it hard for an artist to know which 3D model details/seams to size down. Especially now, our models have very exaggerated details to make sure they cast well. A lot of giant double/triple/quadruple edged model seams should only be a single line in a lineart piece.

Just so happens even before I reassigned this one to myself I'd set it up to have a powered down pose for the lineart, so that was fun to take on, and I decided to add some people.
I think this setup really helps sell the scale of things, as even decent terrain scale indicators can still leave it hard to make a mental connection on size.
Cool detail about this is now that we have all these mechs in a scaled 3D scene, I was able to easily grab a generic 3D human figure, set their scale to match by the numbers, and boom, perfectly sized humans with zero guess work. Best of all it looks right.

Anyway, enjoy! Hope the Marauder II looks a little more appealing in this form.