SMK4 MOVIE: Good Grief (Art Fight 2025)
Hello folks. Today, on RetroRubix, we got a big one. My first mass attack (but probably not my last): The Good Grief poster; featuring the mayority of the Kevin Alliance!
"For when the games end, only one side will have the last word."
As you can see, I've included a ton more characters than my previous attacks. SEVEN CHARACTERS, in fact. So, before I go over everything I got to say about this piece, I shall give a list on who's on here, and their rightful owners. Please check out their content if possible!
Luna (Front center); oc by @rerising-moon
Good & Bad (Upper Center respectivetly), based off the characters of the same name from "Object Cringe" by Slinkybox77 and redesigned by resing-moon
Misty (Left to Luyna); oc by @meteorshowerzz
SMK4 amething (Left to Misty); oc by me :)
SMK4 Acid (Right to Luyna); oc by Randomfan20
and Atlas (Right to Acid); oc by rockstar_kye
OKAAYY SOOO. I got a handful of things to say about this one. Prepare for a massive wall of text up ahead :
> This piece took 15 hours and 35 minutes to finish, in the span of 2 days, making it my longest piece so far.
> To give a bit of more context around this attack, this is a poster for a personal SMG4 AU (nicknamed SMK4) that was made by the Kevin Alliance (The People colored in pink in the character list above). Moon, who's a big fan of Object Cringe, wanted to make an arc within our AU based around the characters of Good and Bad. A while ago, she made a mini poster for it, which I used as a base for this piece.
> The plot of the arc revolves around Good and Bad arriving to the SMG4 world, choosing our SMK4 characters to play "a game". As it turns out, though, these beings were actually testing the SMG4 world's morality through the games; and they've determined it's not worth keeping around! Now our heroes race to change Good and Bad's opinion quickly before they can obliterate their world!
> Besides the original poster Moon designed, I mainly went off the official SMG4 posters for inspiration with the style. Primarily the Revelations Arc poster (which is one of my favorite arcs from SMG4, aside of Genesis). You can see it with the way I shaded and rendered the characters and background.
> Speaking of the shading, one of the main things that took me a long time to work on was the shading on each character. This was a very experimental piece to make due to that, as I was using various tools I've never tried out before. I'm quite proud of the shading in this one; it was a hassle, but it looks cool to me.
> In the lore of the arc, Good and Bad decide to put an indestructible dome around the main SMK4 world after deciding they want to annihilate it, that way they'd prevent anyone inside from escaping. Moon included this detail in her original poster, I just liked the idea and translated it over to mine. I did want to elaborate on the context of it, so that's that-
>Okay, last things: The yellow logo on the bottom that serves as the SMK4 was designed by Randomfan. Months ago, I asked him if he could make a logo of our AU so I could use it in our artwork and sillies. He ended up making it, as seen here bellow, and we've used it ever since. Shout out to him obviously :D
>Finally, I made an alt version of the poster that doesn't feature the logos and stuff. This is just an extra for y'all who clicked on this blog.
Despite the troubles, with me struggling with the shading and anatomy and whatnot, I'm happy that the Kevins enjoyed the final result. I kinda owed this piece to them, for being my support family for a while. Despite us not always like the content, SMG4 means alot to us; and I thought this would've been a good piece to celebrate that. Take it as a thanks for everything :)
-Retro