Flashback Friday – Ryu

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Apr 212017
 

Hello and good morning Flashback Fans. It’s time for what brought us all here. So let’s do it! Click on pics to see ’em bigger.

Ryu is nominally the main character of the Street Fighter franchise…except the live-action movie. That honor went to Guile since Jean-Claude Van Damme isn’t Asian.

Here’s Todrick as Ryu. Red gloves and a red headband on a red character wouldn’t have been my first choice, but I wanted to stay true to the character. I like how the hadoken energy ball effect turned out.

Here’s the comparison to the original piece. The biggest improvements, other than the smoother lines which is always a given, are the ears and the limbs.

That’s all for this week. A new flashback walks among us next Friday!

A New Challenger Appears

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Sep 262012
 

Wednesdays, Mash-ups, let’s do it!

Today we conclude our look at Street Fighter. I couldn’t for the life of me remember what the game says when a new player joined in but I think this is it. If I got it wrong, please let me know.

Some of you may have been expecting to see Ryu last week, seeing as he’s the main protagonist of the Street Fighter franchise. Well, I wanted to keep one big name for the second week…actually, I just didn’t get to drawing him until Thursday. Anyway, Todrick was my first choice for Ryu. His energy ball didn’t turn out quite the way I had hoped.

Following up, we have Deema as Sakura.

Then we have Ibuki. Ninja thief girl? That’s totally Sass.

Finally, we have Barnaby as Balrog, or M. Bison as he was known in the original Japanese.

So that’s it for Street Fighter. Next week: New theme! Bet you weren’t expecting THAT huh?

 

World Warriors

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Sep 192012
 

Wednesday has snuck up on us again and that means one thing around here: MASH-UPS!

This week’s theme is Street Fighter. A quick check shows that I haven’t tackled video games yet (Tron doesn’t count) and that’s all the reason I need. This theme got me to play around a little with poses, specifically fighting poses.

First up is Nektara as Chun-Li. Chun-Li was one of my go-to characters in Street Fighter II because her combos were easy to do. This was probably the most difficult pose to figure out. I had to cheat a little with the length of Nektara’s legs to get it to work at all.

If you take Green Rich and add a military look and straight blond hair, apparently, you get Guile.

Zoë gets to play Cammy. I bet you didn’t know that Zoë had such killer abs huh? Me neither! She’s wearing a beret just like I did at Comic-Con this year!

Vega (or Balrog as he was known in the original Japanese version of the game) is played by Cyran. Why Vega for Cyran? Well, the claws gave me a way to incorporate wrenches in his design and the ears could replicate Vega’s long braids.

Finally, we have the main villain of the game, Big Oonch is M. Bison, or Vega for those of you more familiar with the original Japanese version. The problem with Oonch (and Cyran) is that he has no legs to speak of, which means that I couldn’t give him M. Bison’s cool shin guards. I think he looks good without them though. It’s all about the hat!

Okay, that’s all for now. Come back next week as we continue duking it out in the streets!

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