Character Select Fan Art Challenge

Updated once again. :slight_smile:

VSlash: Sweet new stuff man. I’m lovin this new wacky cartooney style. The Guy especially (the stylization on the face is awesome). I think showing a bit of his back leg might be good too, just so that it doesn’t look quite as much like he has a dangling foot right there. The Cody is quite cool too, but I think with as simple and graphic as you’re doing the characters, a simple graphic approach for the tornado would have been good too rather than the swirly blue effects. Cammy is cool, but not as strong as the others. I think she could use a bit more chin and a bit less ears. Great Mika pic. I agree with the comments that the others gave.

Switcher: Great pics there. The Guy is very dynamic. I agree that you should be careful about making your speed lines all go the same direction. The cody is very fun. Not much wrong with it at all. Maybe try to play with line weights more and get some thin and think going on.

BanditRev: Lovely Chun pic there. Beautiful coloring job. Watch your leg anatomy, it’s getting just a little odd looking there (although leg anatomy is quite difficult to get right, imo).

4neqs: Very funny Cody pic. Hehe, I never really thought about how weird it woudl be to have whole turkeys come out of oil drums, lol. Cammy is looking pretty good. Careful about drawing lines under eyes, it tends to age a character when you do that. Also, watch the position of her breasts, they look a little high.

Banditchain: Nice Blanka. Looks like you’re getting a little better with choosing your shadow shapes. Good stuff. Like mentioned, if you set your lines layer to multiply, you won’t get that white halo even if they aren’t properly cleaned. I think I would have given him some sharper teeth. The super straight teeth looks a little odd on a monster like him.

SFMC: Sweet Chun. One of my favs of yours so far. She’s got a nice additude going on there.

Cpt: Pretty good Chun, even if it is old. The foreshortening on that arm is just a little funky. Usually you only enlarge something so much if it is coming at the viewer, but the angle of the arm doesn’t really suggest that. Funny Dan pic. Looks like you had a little trouble with the angle of Hugo since you tried to draw him from a bit of a worm’s eye, but the view and shapes aren’t quite right. Don’t be afraid to use some reference like picking up an action figure and seeing what it looks like from that angle. Hehe, also be careful with his pupils; he doesn’t really look like he’s looking at Dan so much as something behind Poison. Nice Blanka pic as well. I like the white BG one more. He just didn’t quite fit with that BG you had him on. The way he’s standing doesn’t really work with that vine, balance-wise.

Rook: Cook Sak. Gotta love the taunt pose. Try to be a bit more consistent with your light source. With this pic, it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from. Love the sketch you posted too. You should definately try to finish that up. Great dynamic posing.

The Damned: Don’t go throwing people off now ^_~ Guy didn’t officially start on Friday, he was officially due on Friday, so it’s Cody week now. :slight_smile:

Here’s my Guy. It’s OK. I might do another one.:

http://ronssketchpad.combovideos.com/csfac/guy/images/ron_chan.jpg

hot DAMN your stuff is always fuckin FIRE.

so are you saying dan is gay? after all we all know posin is a dude.

http://ronssketchpad.combovideos.com/csfac/guy/images/ron_chan.jpg

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hey chain, i’m just wondering a few things. is that all inking by hand or comp? if by hand, what do you use? and how much do you clean it up in the comp, cause you shit is VERY crisp. i can never get line art to scan that nice, and i can’t figure out is it’s the paper, the inks, if i’m doing it wrong in photoshop. i’ve looked up like 6 different “how to scan line art in photoshop” but none of them give me good crisp line work. usually when i fill the line work “ants” in it also slightly colors the back, and when i play w/ the levels it makes the pic darker, but grainer.
should i be doing darker inks before i scan? i feel stupid asking this, but its the main reason i don’t post anything here. i can’t transfer my drawings to photoshop well at all.
ANYONE feel free to help me out here.!
thanks guys,
-rabid

Hey Rabid, I left something for you in the tips thread. :slight_smile:

the Damned: thx… although there isn’t a sweatdrop on her face. I’ts probably some stray pencil marks (I make like a million of those all the time)

Cpt: yeah, the white bg worked out better. I think it was partially the choice of colour you used to tint the black linework, and a partial clash with the bg.

Ron: thx for the light source crit. I definitely need more practise with backlighting.
Sweet Guy pic, man. Only nitpick is that his head seems a little large.
also, excellent post in the tips thread.

Cammy really isn’t done in that style, I just did a sketch when I couldn’t fall asleep. I was lazy and just drew a tornado in with paint and blurred it in the Cody picture. Your right about Guys weird foot, he has a tiny left leg. :rofl:

I’m going to do another picture for each of them, it’s just I had to move out of college and I’ve been getting my room all cleaned up/working for the past couple of days. I’ll get them done sooner then later. :wonder:

It’s kind of a multi leveled joke since only Dan doesn’t know that poison is a dude.
:wgrin:

Poison isn’t a dude, she got a sex-change in the american release though…at least I’ve read?

It’s a dude.

Heeey again. Here’s another Guy and also my Cody. Hehe, I ran out of paper in my white sketchbook, so I guess it’ll be the brown one for a while until I get around to buying a new white one. Although, the brown sketchbook is kinda fun anyhow :slight_smile:

http://ronssketchpad.combovideos.com/csfac/guy/images/ron_chan2.jpg

http://ronssketchpad.combovideos.com/csfac/cody/images/ron_chan.jpg

Ronman: Nice fucking Cody, a pretty lame design IMO and you made him sweet as shit. Nice combo of media too. BTW I got your xmas present in the mail lol, lit a fire under my butt to buy your’s and susan’s. :confused:

No way, Cody was the best new character in Alpha 3, in my opinion!

That’s damn nice, Chain, and the Guy is loads more interesting then the first one. Awesome work!

Man, these are uber good! The whites look grat on the brown paper. Gives it a gritty edge.

Cody looks fantastic! You’ve given him a real down-to-earth look. Probably my fav of yours so far!

I like the white strokes in the Cody picture…

that Cody pic is awesome, Ron. As already mentioned, it just captures a very real moment. The psychological effect of having him looking over his shoulder is great. While the pose is good, it also feels kinda not quite right at the same time… perhaps a bit more trapezius area would work better?

Guy pic is cool… but I can’t help thinking I’m looking at Fei-long each time I see it.

nope…you’re wrong shes a dude.

Wut!? How can that be… I’ve got all this magazines… Oh god… OH GOD… jk :rolleyes:

damn chain, that cody is killer. I really like the use of the brown paper again with the white pencil. I would like to see a comic done in something like that. A twist on Sin City I suppose. That guy is nice too. The pose is great. Do you use reference for any of your pics?

A really great Cody moment would be an above-the-waist pic of him, taking a shower, with a really, really worried expression on his face.