Axl's First Mission

EDIT: WHOMG! I forgot to shade a part! @_@ *teh fix*

SECOND EDIT sorry XD Blurred the skyscrapers a bit, it looks better now~~

(couldn't think of a decent title onoez x_o)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand here we have rookie Axl on his first mission in Red Alert; totally beaten up and such, just after having received that all-famous scar XD
Now, about the scar... I looked up some information on Axl to see if that scar was explained somewhere but I couldn't find anything. I don't even think it is explained in the games itself (I never played the X games, so I don't know for sure). Anyhow, this is just MY version of how he got that scar ^-^

Originally the idea was to make this a one page comic on which he actually gets attacked and receives the scar, but that didn't really work out. Maybe I'll try it again later. I used reference for the pose after failing to get it right three times; it was taken from a random RMX manga scan I found on my computer.

LOOKIE! Background! XD

Shading this thing took me hours >> I sketched and inked Axl yesterday evening and sketched and inked the background this morning and colored and shaded the whole thing with hardly any breaks; I only just finished it now (it's 22.45 in the evening here)
The background and shading is similar to that unfinished Maverick Hunters drawing that's somewhere in my gallery.

Because this is a pretty dark picture, I uploaded the lineart here; it shows the cracks and damage on his armor a bit better XD

Medium: Photoshop 7 from scratch
Time taken: teh long onoez~~ @_@
Axl (c) Capcom
Art (c) Karioudo