Hi! Gustavo here! 

First of all, I'm really happy with all the support for this project. To know I'll have the chance to design a bunch of mechs and draw urban scenarios from the perspective of adventuring mice still makes me grin from ear to ear. So again, we truly appreciate everybody for believing in this project!

Today I want to talk a little bit about the internal art for this game. I don't know if you noticed, but everything I'm making for this game is first drawn by pen and in. What you see in our mockups and images are the scanned versions which I later colored digitally!

This is my usual process to work with games to achieve a more vintage look, but for Mechritter it was even more special, as I was trying to incorporate a '90s cartoon aesthetic as well. When I hear about mice duking it out in mech suits, that sounds like a saturday morning show to me!

At the same time, I tried to be really careful with the mech designs. I don't know the first thing about engineering, but I wanted to look at them and have some idea of their functionality. Extending the mice limbs seemed important to give a more imposing silhouette, but I didn't want it to feel artificial.

Finally, after the designs are done I scan them to add colors and make small fixes on Krita. I always like to work with a limited color palette. It may be from my experience with pixelart or just because it is easier to harmonize colors when there are fewer of them, but I think the vibrant colors here really collaborates with the cartoonish look!

I hope this helps people to understand all the work that is behind these illustrations, I'm hoping to revamp everything I've made so far for the final material, added to many other illustrations that will be on the booklet!

Thanks for the read and for following the project! It will be super helpful if you share it around in these last few days of campaign.

Cheers!