Akuma's New Ultra: An Artists Rendition

Demon Armageddon

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e23/jaysunli/tazkuma.png

Also, here are two others I’ve done recently. I’ve been trying to get back in to everything after a year or so hiatus.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e23/jaysunli/kuma-1.png

Haven’t had a chance to color this but I’ll be posting both pictures ink in the collab thread if anyone cares to.

:rofl: Taz Akuma.

Gief’s expression on that last one looks serious. But nice work on the proportions.

Thanks for the comment. Figured I’d get a couple more considering all the views. :confused:

i thought this thread had had motre comments, from me alswell.

all pics good, i’d like to see people that can draw (like you) try there best to make ultra2 look good in a picture.

i tried a few ideas but couldnt do it.

I think the ultra looks great for that initial kick. It’s very powerful looking …then all things go to hell.

The kick would make for a good picture though probably.

I thought I had replied to this! Anyway, I cracked up when I saw the Tazz cyclone… totally agreed with you on this one.

I like the colors on Akuma, but it would be better if you toned down the saturation somewhat. It comes across as kinda bright.

Zangief/Viper pic is cool… it also reminds me of a pic I did a long time ago – looks like we had the same idea for composition! Gief in the bg, another char in the foreground,with smoke covering Gief’s legs. I think the proportions are very stylized, but it’s workable. this pic would look great colored!

Edit: Wait a minute. Is it already in the Collab thread? I should go browse through there again.

Although i’m not a big fan of soft gradients,it looks interesting with the sharp black outlines. I plan to doodle up a pseudo-Chibi Ken during my next lecture.

Yeah, I don’t color often. I only have a mouse so I can’t really paint it in which would probably be much much easier. I was trying out different things with the Akuma.

Thanks for the comments and yes, Sasmasta, they are both in the collab thread already.

I like that Tazkuma. Rufus’ new second Ultra Combo always reminded me of the Tazmanian Devil though.

Do you dig the style of vector colour application? I just made up that term right now (that just may actually exist), you colour with solid fills only, no gradients. any transition is created through fills that gradually change. In other words, “anime that has highlights and shadows”.

check this caricature if you’re unsure of what i’m talking about. IMO, it’s got a level of sharpness, but it lacks realism for having no gradients.

Yeah, I just think of that as straight up cel style art or I’ve heard it referred to as “Cuts”. I’d like to do that but it’s hard to make curves with a mouse(Unless I use “Curves” of course but I’ haven’t really tried them) so it would come out jaggy instead of smooth like in your link.

I actually didn’t use gradients per say for the akuma but used solid fills and then gaussian blur over it for each shade. It’s effectively a gradient I suppose but I was just fooling around with it. Burn and Dodge aswell.

If I ever get around to getting a Wacom I would probably invest more time in learning to color but right now it’s just something for fun.

Next picture I do I might try the “cuts” style with curves and see how that turns out.