damn this is old, found it on the external.

Ace Combat Zero fan art.
Solo-wing Pixy in Ace Combat Zero has a back-story that was not explicitly discussed.
During a mission, the F-15 he pilots has its right wing blown off. Despite of the damage, Pixy still managed to complete the sortie with one wing, and managed to bring the damaged plane home to safety.

This backstory was somehow inspired by Israeli Air Force's F-15 training exercise accident, where an F-15 had a mid-air collision which took out its right wing. The IAF pilot managed to land the one winged plane back to safety. So yea

Anyway, too much babbling.
Would like to thank Relic News IRC art channel and conceptart.org's irc channel's people for providing me the much needed critique during the course of the project.

Thanks for viewing everybody!

"Yea... I had my share of going home without wings"

Ace combat zero fan art.
Gift for

AC0 © Namco
Art © me

Music that goes with it: [link]

F-4E Phantom II

12 guage

The narrator took his final look at Yellow 13 on the sky of Farbanti.
(Updated for contrasts/colors)

Used in the pacification of zombie infested Houston

My take on Cipher (Galm 1) vs. Larry "Pixy" Foulke (Galm 2) in their climactic final battle.
This piece is inspired by ~Skunk-Works' artworks.

Cipher uses a black ADFX-01 here since it's very much fitting in so many ways:

- Pixy mentions him and Cipher being the "opposite sides of the same coin"; black & white are two universal opposites
- the music during the battle, "Zero", has samples of Razgriz (black is the trademark color of Razgriz, by the way) in it
- the battle is pretty much a foreshadowing of future events (as seen in Ace Combat 5)

I did the ADFX-01/ADFX-02 lineart first on paper, then scanned it in and traced the lines on Photoshop. The rest of the art (smoke, snow, background, etc.) was drawn on Photoshop.

Ace Combat © Project Aces & Namco Bandai

Operation: ----
1510 Hours, 31 December 1995
Avalon Dam


Special thanks to:
Deviant art artists:
Kai Lim "Ukitakumuki"
Marc "Rub-a-Duckie"
Jerry Cai
Bryan "Smurfbizkit" Ahonen

Relicnews #art irc chatroom
Riess
Nyyti

Conceptart.org irc chatroom:
Deadred

Lastly:
The entire Ace Combat Zero team

Inspired by the final level of Ace Combat 04, beautiful music: [link]

This is a minimal version... It's not as awesome as I want it to be. After having left this for over a year, it's clear I'm not going to finish it without substantial further inspiration. I think it looks beautiful and simple as it is already. Finishing it might just add too much chaos.

Crits appreciated.