The X-Men by Green-Mamba on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I'd been working on this off and on for over a month now, decided to just up and finish it finally.

This is not supposed to be in continuity to my Greater Marvel Universe picture, it was done entirely for fun. I had wanted to do an X-Men team pic after I had done that one Spider-Man extra where he was with the Avengers, and I figured I had enough X-Men members in my GMU picture to make it work. I decided to base it on Jorge Molina's connecting variants of House of X and Powers of X #4, as I thought it was the best grouping of X-Men I could do. So the background was based on his directly, albeit completely repainted over to basically teach myself more coloring methods. And then the characters themselves are my own designs drawn over the existing characters' poses, though I swapped Cable out for Bishop because I never really associated Cable as one of the "core" X-Men members in my head, maybe you view them differently. I think Molina's covers were based on an existing lineup from the nineties or something, but I wanted to go for a generic "core" X-Men roster, so far as I imagined one. And then I inserted Emma Frost and Kitty Pryde into the background where the covers' logos had originally gone. Kitty herself is supposed to be walking on air, which is an actual power of hers! Her pose is actually partially based on her Kotobukiya shoujo figure.

Oh, and I guess one member is wearing a completely new uniform that may or may not appear in the GMU project at some point in the future.

Again--this was done entirely for fun and has no bearing on any story continuity or potential future pictures like this.