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KeyshaKitty — what could have been...
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Pencils: *enolianslaveInks, BG, colours: *Keysha-chan
First of two very cool images Eno sent to me to work with. Originally I was going to post them both together... but I've decided to post them separately, since I think they have more impact that way. Look out for the second one because I think it's insanely cool and she's really challenging me with some angles! XD
But until then the first is this really sweet piece of little Ratchet and Alister (yes, hur! Again, not canon but it could have been had Azimuth been aware Ratchet was alive).
Originally I wanted to try out some thicker shading on Ratchet's limbs which were further forward, but I lost that effect when I had to give him a thicker outline to work better with such a busy environment (and the fact that he's so golden himself). Will try it out again with the follow-up image.
Follow up image:
I'm sure someone will eventually point out the feet aren't Lombaxy-enough too. :/
I couldn't resist sticking them on Torren IV, though. I guess I'm kind of fond of that very dead-looking planet. Perfect place for a couple of Lombax outcasts, anyway.
Media: Mitsubishi Uni Pin Inks, Copic Markers, Pro Markers, Tria Markers, PrismaColor Pencils, Hybrid Gel Pen, Faber Castell Water colour paints.
Legal Stuff: Characters © Insomniac.
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Comments: 117
Instead he has to zoom around the universe cleaning up other peoples messes!
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Its like.....so close to the actual game ='D I do love Alistair, he was just so loving...Though I really wanna ,meet the other lombaxes ;-;
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This is such a sweet and beautiful picture. The colors really help to give this picture life, and I love how the characters stand out without contrasting with the background. Wonderful job.
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Simply wonderful!! The expressions are awesome, and I can easily imagine Ratchet being that kind of a little lombax youngling ^^ Well drawn!
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Waaah! His face is the cutest everrr!!!
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Very nice.
I have played most of the games always loved them.
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Ah, you guys do good work. *goes to check out enolianslaves's gallery*
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Adorable :3 The background is simply beautiful :3
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This is a series I need to finish, and one that has been one of the best I've played. (compared to what companies have done with Spyro...)
Love the combination of colors, and Ratchet looks so cute. ^^
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so cute. looks awesome. i cant wait to see the nextone
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Have you seen the WIP of the next one yet? I know when I showed Abs what Tanya had emailed, she almost had a heart attack! XD
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you show me it at home on fri. pretty cool
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I really wish this happened,it would of been awesome.At least we have this picture to show it to us,thank you =^_^= .Awesome job .
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For some reason, this makes me want to cry. I tip my hat to a great artist who can draw out emotions from her audience. Brilliant work! Eno also did wonderful work as well!
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Thanks, though I feel Eno did most of the work since she has the amazing skill of getting the original poses and expressions of the characters just right to begin with. :3 Glad you like it!
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True. It takes two to tango. X3
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Oh man, I ADORE all this Ratchet and Alister art you and Tanya have been doing! 
Torren was such a weird planet though, Alister would CONSTANTLY need to chase Ratchet around to make sure he didn't fall down mine shafts and cart rails (or get eaten by the big mechanical speaking monster head 
Beautiful work (both you and Tanya), this lovely Ratchet art really makes me want to draw some fanart myself
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Oh gosh! Now you reminded me of Jak and his Dad, I have TWO reasons to Bawwwwww about the whole 'what could have been' situation. XD Thank you kindly for that!
I can totally see Alister taking amazing care of little Ratchet though. Kaden was his own BFF and after hearing all those different stories in Krell Canyon (well, asides the stuck-in-the-box one XD) you just know he'd be the doting uncle if given the chance. :3
Thanks so much for the sweet comment, hon!
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OMG yes! The whole could have been thing with Jak is SO sad! Did you ever see the picture that *vashs-angel did of what could have been? Its one of my favourites!
Alister would have made a wonderful "uncle" though! If only they'd met earlier and under different circumstances D: *leSob*
You're welcome :3
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hey this is just awesome! 
and Alister is the Lombax version of Nathan Hale from Resistance fall of man!!! XD
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XD Not played that game. All I know is that the guy who plays him also plays Clank.
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lol! i didnt know that! XD
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The colors on this are amazing! The shading is very well done. I love the terrain and the way everything feels.
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god! u know i hate u for making such amazing artwork! *sob*
i think insomniacshould make a game with Ratchets past... and Azimuths too...
i still loe the end to CiT.... tho i wish it was longer
alizter seems so at ease here.. and i love ot see Ratchet so young.. and so cute!!!
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I always wondered what it's like if Ratchet was raised by Azimuth.
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At first I thought that Azimuth was gardening with his wrench! lol. Silly preview!
Wonderful collab! I really love what you did with the background.
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Who knows? He could be! Planting cabbages for winter soups!
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Very sweet concept, love young Ratchet.
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Wouldn't Azimuth have violently murdered Ratchet then just to prevent the violently destructive future in his line of life?
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Okay, that doesn't even make any sense. :/
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I'm just saying, Azimuth originally tried to kill Ratchet to fix his future problems, so if he saw Ratchet then, why didn't he just kill him?
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I think you missed the entire point of why he tried to kill Ratchet in CiT. It wasn't until he realised Ratchet was going prevent him from altering time - and up until near the end, Ratchet WAS going to. He even did it with the motive that Ratchet would still be alive when he reversed time - so he wasn't really killing him for good, just keeping him out of the way until things were 'fixed'.
Had he been watching over Ratchet since the events after the uprising and the other Lombaxes fleeing the dimension, he could not have foreseen that Ratchet would grow up and turn his back on his ideals of reversing time with the great clock.
And just in case you don't understand the picture - this is Alister watching over a much, much younger Ratchet - not the 20-something boy from Crack in Time.
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24 in Crack in Time if I'm correct on information I've seen from games, and I seemed to forgotten that whole thing, it's honestly very difficult to remember every little plot element in the Ratchet and Clank series, seriously, every little item is a Macguffin which really does sometimes make plots difficult to follow.
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I've honestly not had any trouble keeping up with the plot elements in the games. :< Even so, the only 'official' age I've ever seen Ratchet listed as was during the 4th Ps2 game, and that was only when his stats were passed over to Jak X listing him as 18.
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I think Ratchet is 21...I really like this picture
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Yes but I think so far 6 years have passed since he was in Jak X, making him about 24 to 26. And actually most of the time R&C is just walking Macguffins, Ratchet and Clank 1 had people talking about Skid McMarx a lot of the time, and then BAM he's there and he enters you into the Hoverboard-races and sells you the R.Y.N.O., RC2 had the thief dude who I'm pretty sure during production was originally just going to be a one-shot character and never seen again but they decided to make her one of the major characters, and RC3 had the little Secret Agent Clank clip resulted in Clank being world-famous, having several roles, getting his own boss-fight in the game, a gun that shoots bananas, and a whole game. So yeah it shoves a lot in your face.
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Unless it's word of god, though, there's no official age as far as I have seen. The only thing I know for certain is that 2 years passed between tools of Destruction and Crack in Time, so 'think' and 'fact' aren't the same thing.
And Skid didn't sell you the RYNO, though the guy that does looks like he could be the same kind of alien species.
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Yeah, and about 3 years passed between Size Matters and Tools of Destruction, while in Deadlocked Ratchet was officially 19, and so far as we can tell it passed about a year between the two games, then of course it all adds up if you count Jak X's claimed official age, 3 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 6, which would mean 6 years have passed since Jak X, which took place around the time of Up You Arsenal, so far that means the games spread by years, meaning Jak would have been a kid still around the first game, who'da thunk. And I was pretty sure that was Skid, maybe the salesman was a Macguffin for the ship-parts and weapon-upgrades dude in the second game, since those two are alaos very familiar.
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