Zero: Pixy vs. Cipher

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.

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