And now the counterpart to the previous artwork! Skip ahead eight years in Gladiator’s development and here we are: two incredible partners fighting side-by-side, standing together against every hurdle and obstacle along the way. I had a lot of fun sketching this one out, then playing with the visual effects to make it work... it was one heck of a project but I loved doing it. Who knew running across a desert could be this entertaining? xD
This is obviously not all the participants of the race but still it’s a LOT of them xD especially the main players, with major focus on our two headliners, who are so damn confident in their bond that they can just run around smiling at each other and still not be afraid of what the rest of the teams might do to them xD Ah, it’s a really fun race out there, and I’ve had the time of my life, both while writing and drawing it, that’s the truth. We’ll see how far along we are by next year’s anniversary, but I’ll say... I was very happy that the Race’s arc would be halfway through by the time the anniversary came along. I really wanted to draw something about it, and there was no better excuse/reason for it than the anniversary xD
If you’d like to know who the depicted characters are... evidently, on the rock we have Iroh and Toph, and veeeery tiny, riding the hot-air balloon, is Yang: on the ground, from left to right, Koshing, Sei (The Light Bearer), Renzhi (The Millennium Dragon), Aonu, Kei (The Dark Rook), Sokka, Azula, Haru, Ty Lee, then The Harbinger of Chaos is the one dunking The Frizzy's face into the sand xD, next to Ty Lee is Kori Morishita, Sneers, behind them San (the Priestess of the Flames) is strangling Scoundrel's sponsor, Naoko, then we have Eri and Ruan (The Sentinel Knight), Raiden (the Priestess's sponsor), Sizheng (Scoundrel), The Ruthless Hero, then his sponsor, and lastly we have Your Doom, who’s carrying his sponsor on his back.
