Anarchism test shots

[Crisis]

Anarchism -
A long running comic series I've been working on, that begins just after the Black Mesa incident and follows an ordinary man as the world around him falls into chaos as the portal storms begin. Then the combine invade. We follow him for a decade through the post-invasion world as he tries to survive the harsh wastelands and brutal combine cities and eventually becomes one of the most important people in the resistance.

I started this project sometime last year and I've been writing the storyline for the last 5 months and just this week begun making the first chapter of the comic. It?s mostly an action-based story-driven comic with quite a few reoccurring characters and two long term ones. The storyline crosses over with Half Life 2?s a fare few times, and the HL2 characters make appearances.

Most of the information for the story was obtained from things in-game, Raising the Bar and here ? mostly the Half-Life Story & Mythology forum.

Finally, The two test shots- which are of the Seven Hours War
"Combine's arrival"

"Striders!"

 

[Krynn72]

Thats pretty awesome. How much of this did you actually paint though?

 

[Crisis]

How much of this did you actually paint though?

Very little, in the first just the lightning, rocket from the APC and the rain water running off the soldiers were painted. And in the second the rockets, smoke and strider's gunfire were the only painted things. both images were mostly just burned and dodged. Still about 6 hours of photoshopping went into each.

Orginals for comparison-

Spoiler

Combine's arrival
Striders