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X-Key in the field. The original drawing was made with pencils and ink then colored in Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq drawing tablet.
Cool X-Key fanart sent to us by Instagram user @thiagomeloinst. Thank you! Check out his page for more!
Awesome X-Key fan art of submission from krisyona1994. You can check out her page for more of her art.
This is just a little sketch I threw together in appreciation of everyone! Happy Valentines Day! Thanks for all the likes, reblogs, fan mails, and follows! We appreciate the support that you guys show us daily!
Hello everyone! This week we are sharing concept art of characters from X-Key: Rebellion. This post will be updated a few more times this weekend. Hope you like and thanks for checking us out!
X-Key: Rebellion Issue 2 Goes Live!
Happy New Year everyone! We hope that you all have had a great holiday season and are having a great start to 2015. Team X is excited to announce that the second issue of our comic series X-Key: Rebellion has gone live. Rebellion 02 is available for free just like the first issue. Please read, enjoy, and share it on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and any other social media platform. Thanks again for visiting and we will have more updates, including our early 2015 schedule coming soon.
First sketch of the new year. Pencil and sharpie.
Hello everyone!
Today is the first day of our Halloween Social Media Giveaway. Many of you are new to the Team X Visual page and were not fans of the page when we did our first promotion. As stated in our Post New York Comic-Con video, we will be drawing sketches of our fans in the style of X-Key. Some of the sketches from the last promotion are viewable on our (www.teamxvisual.tumblr.com) Tumblr account. If you want to see yourself in the world of X-Key, read the rules below and participate. The contest ends when 25 people have responded across the various social media platforms or on November 3rd at 3:00 PM CST.
The following are the rules for the giveaway:
1. We will be awarding the first 25 responses on each of our social media platforms with a sketch of yourself in the world of X-Key. This means if you are not one of the first 25 on Facebook, you can still aim for Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram.
2. Follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram.
2a: Facebook (www.facebook.com/teamxvisual), Tumblr (www.teamxvisual.tumblr.com), Twitter (www.twitter.com/teamxvisual), Instagram (www.instagram.com/teamxvisual).
3. From your social media account (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram), leave a comment answering the following question: “What would you like to see from a Team X booth at either C2E2 or New York Comic-Con?”
4. Please be thoughtful with your responses as we are taking these suggestions seriously for next year’s convention circuit.
5. We will contact you if we do not have an image of you that we can use to draw from for the sketch.
6. BONUS: A number of the sketches will be cleaned up, inked, and colored. The selection will be at random (so as not to play favorites).
Enjoy Halloween in a safe way and thanks for following us!
Happy Halloween!
Team X Halloween Social Media Giveaway
Hey everyone! Tomorrow we will be announcing the Team X Halloween Social Media Giveaway. Want to see yourself in the world of X-Key? Be sure to check back Halloween morning for more details!
Be sure to have your Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram accounts ready! We'll be giving away sketches and colored images of drawings of you in 2335! Thanks for checking in!
YouTube channel for Team X created! Check out our channel and subscribe for all of our upcoming video updates. There is also a new update on our Kickstarter page. Lots of things coming this week. Later today we will announce the rules of our Social Media Sketch Giveaway 2! Stay tuned to our social media channels! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFx8Q1cXVxc30mzBTLxNzA/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/989640095/x-key-our-voices-are-one
Hello everyone! It's another sketch Saturday and we are winding down our NYCC related posts with a look at some of the artwork used in our booth at Comic Con. You can see sketches of the images used for our banners, the cardboard cut outs of X-Key and Lilith, the print for "Our Voices Are One" , and our flyer for highoctanerevolution.com. As always you can click a sketch to see the captions on the artwork. Thanks for checking us out!
Just a reminder, our Kickstarter project is now live! Please like, share with friends, and make the largest small donation possible! You can help us get this story made! Also visit our site for more about X-Key!
NYCC Table drawings- Here are some of the drawings from the floor of New York Comic Con. We will be updating the gallery on highoctanerevolution.com with scans of the images you see here along with a few others. Thanks for visiting with us. We really enjoyed New York Comic Con and we hope to see you next year!
NYCC Part 3 Photos from later on in the show, I was pretty tired by the final day but the energy of the people on the floor kept me afloat. It was such a great experience seeing so many people react to X-key thank you all, you made the experience worthwhile.
NYCC Part 2 -More photos from the show floor. A special thanks to Chihsuan for traveling all the way to NYC for the show. Also a special thanks to Brandon Foster, concept and line artist for Story of X, who took a big break from his schedule to come out and support his fellow Team X members on our project X-key.
NYCC Part 1- Daniel and I are just settling down in Philly and pulling our Kickstarter campaign in to full gear, but we wanted to share some photos from the floor of New York Comic Con. A big thank you to everyone who took the time to come and visit our booth, and a very special thanks to our friends who came by and visited the booth! Many came from other parts of the country to share this launch event with us, so thank you. I also want to personally thank the members of Team X for doing a stellar job. I am still kind of tired and actually coming down with some kind of cold, but seeing the energy on the floor really motivates me to keep going and push harder to move our project forward! (This is a multi-part post so please take a look at the other photos as well)
Hey everyone, its been a while since we had a "Sketch Saturday" due to the preparations for our Kickstarter Project and our appearance at New York Comic Con, so we thought we would make this one a special post. This Saturday we are jumping back through time to take a look at some of the earliest X-Key artwork. Some of these date back to late 2010 which was pretty much the beginning of Team X's work on the project. For us, it is very interesting to see the ways in which the designs have changed or stayed the same. We hope you enjoy as well.
Hello Everyone! This weeks update brings us a new version of www.highoctanerevolution.com. This version been optimized for multiple browser settings and screen resolutions, and also features new areas such as our sketch and illustration gallery. Please take a look and tell us what you think. This weeks illustrations feature an image of X-Key first shown during "Sketch Saturday", as well shot of the area we see X-Key in during Issue 01 of "Rebellion". Thanks for stopping by and check back with us for more updates!
Promotional artwork for X-Key! First up is a character reveal: Miles was the person aiding X-Key via remote communication in Issue 1 of Rebellion. More about his character will be debuted in future issues. Next is a piece of artwork featuring X-Key in the wasteland. Thanks for checking in and keep coming back for more X-Key artwork and updates.
Also, do not forget to visit www.highoctanerevolution.com to see the new design layout!
These are the sketches of everyone who liked and commented on last week’s Facebook post. We hope you enjoy the artwork. Please check back with us for future updates and information about X-Key!
Hello everyone, This is Jonathan Chatonda from Team X Visual. We are doing something new this week. Welcome to our first "Sketch Saturday". We will be sharing sketches and concept art from Team X Visual's projects The numbers on each sketch correspond to notes that will accompany the blog. You can check the caption to see the notes.
The first order of business this week is to let everyone know that the second issue of Rebellion will be available on our website next Friday, August 29th. I also wanted to share some artwork this week of another character in the X-Key world named Lilith. Lililth’s story entitled Days on Edge follows her through the brutal wastelands of the future. This story will be available on www.highoctanerevolution.com, after Rebellion completes its run. Even though it’s going to be a while, I really enjoy drawing this character and I thought I’d give you all an early sneak peek.
Hello everyone! The first issue of our introduction to X-Key entitled: Rebellion is available for viewing on www.highoctanerevolution.com right now! We had a couple of delays for various reasons, and we would like to thank everyone for their patience. We will be announcing the release date of the next issue fairly soon. Rebellion is a multi-part series so please be sure to check back regularly for future releases. We are truly excited to share this first look into the world of X-Key. If you enjoy the first issue of Rebellion, please share the links with your friends and family as well as leave a comment below this post!
Here is a direct URL link to the comic: www.highoctanerevolution.com/Rebellion-1
Promotional artwork for X-Key: Rebellion. Don't forget to visit the Official X-Key Website for all X-Key related news and updates! Part One of X-Key: Rebellion will debut on Friday, August 8th 2014.