Len Barboza - X-men Evolution - Kurt and Kitty are Expecting

This is a new lineart that I had Len Barboza (Aquarina-chan) do for me.  The idea for it came about when a friend of mine, who is also a fan of the Kurt/Kitty pairing, had become pregnant.  And I had decided on making a small tribute piece for her.  And I thought that this would be the best way for me to do that, to have Kurt Wagner and Kitty Pryde expecting a child.

Originally, when this lineart was made for me there was no background whatsoever, it was only after I had finished coloring in Kurt and Kitty did I think that it could use a background.  This came about when I left the background blank and put in the X-men logo in the background but that didn’t look very appealing to the eye so I decided to go further.   However, I didn’t want to get rid of the X-men logo so I changed it’s color and blended it into the wood of the bed’s headboard.

I hope all of you enjoy it.

Note:  All characters depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat - X-men Evolution - Marvel Comics

Len Barboza - Nightcrawler’s new Uniform

This is the colored version of a new lineart that Aquarina-chan did for me.

Some of you may know that I did had something similarly done with Bokuman

The inspiration that I got for his outfit came from another deviant artist. So I’d like to thank IvyBeth and her Nightcrawler piece:

Even though something like this had already been done with bokuman I still wanted to have something like this done with the version of Nightcrawler from “X-men Evolution”. He certainly looks even more bad-ass than before, wouldn’t you all agree?

I know that there is no background for this but I was having some enormous difficulty with that. So if any of you would like to help out with that I’d appreciate it.

© Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner - X-men - Marvel Comics

© X-men Evolution - WB

Len Barboza - Kurt and Kitty in Love

This is a colored lineart that I had commissioned from Aquarina-chan (Len Barboza). The idea of it is that I wanted this picture to be a fairly loving picture of a favorite pairing of mine: Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) and Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). Of course in this I had her use the X-men Evolution version.

The only real tricky parts about this was mimicking the colors, shading style as well as putting in a fairly decent background. I had tried to paint some grass into this but it never really came out the way I had hoped so I basically resorted to using a grass photo pattern and giving it a perspective distortion. So if any of you out there know of any grass photoshop painting tutorials let me know. And I mean the kind where it’s from an above angle, not the side-angle that most tutorials here have.

Note: All characters depicted here are 18 years or older.

© Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat - X-men Evolution - WB - Marvel Comics

Bokuman - Nightcrawler

This is the colored version of the New Commission that Bokuman did for me.

For a while now I wanted to do some kind of artwork with one of my favorite X-men, Kurt Wagner, otherwise known as Nightcrawler.

The inspiration that I got for his outfit came from another deviant artist.  So I’d like to thank IvyBeth and her Nightcrawler Peice

The reason why it took me so long to color this one is because of two things.

First even though some would say it’s simple but it only does from a certain perspective.  Coloring the uniform with only three simple colors (and their various gradations) but the outfit itself as multiple surface areas and that’s what made it difficult.

The second most difficult part of this was the “Bamf Smoke”.  It was a challenge and something that I had never done as far as my photoshop techniques.   Thankfully here at DeviantArt there are dozens of tutorials on this subject.

So I would like to thank MahadosKnight for his Smoke Effect Tutorial

Though after it was done I decided to do two versions.  One with smoke and one without.

© Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner - X-men - Marvel Comics