As the sun rises over Republic of Manchester in the continental Southern Cascades, three ARCS members of the Shadow Knights Team look towards the horizon. Spitfire, Hellcat and Hurricane.

And so the Arcbots are back again!

This was originally meant to just be a quick practice with trying to draw Spitfire once again since he is actually pretty difficult to draw. However, I was able to start working on a new artistic skeleton for him, so that should at least help speed up actually drawing the character down the line.

I also took the opportunity to do some early work on two additional Arcbots, specifically Hellcat on the left and Hurricane on the right.

Spitfire is a draconic themed medium-class ARCS as before, whilst Hellcat is a feline themed light-class and Hurricane is, you guessed it, a bird of prey themed micro-class. Together, these three bots are some of the mechanical members of the Shadow Knights, an ARCS team present in the setting doing everything from tournaments, rescues and occassionly fighting insane ARCS, corpos, the nastier kinds of anarchists rather than the friendly ones, and of course invaders from the Bel-Shan Federation, given that the Republic of Manchester is an Allied Defence Treaty Organisation (ADTO) Member. There are humans on the team, and there is a Heavy and Mega-class ARCS on the team, but they'd struggle to fit there.

This was an interesting piece to work on. It helped get a better idea of how to draw Spitfire whilst also learning how to go ahead and learning to draw Hellcat and Hurricane. I was initally not sure about the background and the sunset effects, but I've grown to like them bit by bit as I fiddled around with things. Overall, whilst I think this piece isn't perfect, I do like how it has come out.

I think the next ARCS piece will feature Spitfire again, but Hellcat will probably follow next with the Undead Robot helping as a prototype for some Hellcat Ideas.