DrunkWarrior Online: Beer Run!

One of my best buds, DJ Sunder MKII has recently started streaming his Mechwarrior Online games for fun and asked me to create some title screens for him. Sunder's steam is just him knocking back hard drinks while playing MWO and generally having fun (thus: DrunkWarrior) 

If you don't mind hard language with hard drinking,(again: harsh language so please watch at home) Sunder plans on broadcasting every Monday evening on his twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/sundermk2

The actual artwork was finished last year but I wanted to wait until Sunder was  actually streaming before posting to prevent anyone from using the artwork before he did.

The art itself is pretty straight forward: Mechwarrior using his Neurohelmet as a Beer Helmet. I kept the details close to the Battletech's traditional MechWarrior gear (Neuralhelmet, Coolant Vest, ect. ) With the exception of a coolant suit that looks like normal fatigues. I kept it as simple as possible though in hindsight, I should have added some grey line piping to sleeves. I chose to use OD Green as the color in spite the coolant suit in MWO being grey but I didn't want grey-on grey cockpit image.  Same reason I made the beer cans Red, wanted to make sure the everything in the image was as distinctive as possible. In part because the stream was originally also going to be posted on YouTube (before YouTube made it incredibly unfriendly to gamers because of certain personality) so I wanted to make sure the image was as clear as a thumbnail as well as a title shot.   

Friendly reminder Battletech is owned by Topps and Mechwarrior is owned by Mircosoft and licensed to CGL, PGI and HBS

(and are in no way are responsible for the actions DJ Sunder once he takes the battlefield in a Catapult K2 after a few shots of Jagermeister. Please pilot responsibly and leave bad decision to DJ Sunder)