Shoryuken! New artwork

Street Fighter 4 is out today! And as anyone knows I am a HUGE Street Fighter fan. Now I've been working on an entrant into a "redesigned" Street Fighter art contest, but didn't like what I came up with(doesn't seem to meet the criteria in my book). So I've decided to share it all with you.

Below you will see the two colored versions I came up with for the contest. The idea is that Ryu is embracing the light of the martial arts(thus explains the Japanese kanji for "Light" on his back). For the first version I wanted to play with light warm colors, whereas the second was more of a "light in the darkness" idea. While I won't be using these pieces, they were a good excercise in coloring in photoshop.

Just for kicks I also included my reference for the pose in comparison to the fully inked drawing. That's right, my 12" 256 points of articulation Spider-man was my model. Hope you all enjoy and I'll post my final entrant as soon as I can.

Street Fighter 4 Gameplay Video

So yes I am a Street Fighter fanatic(reading any earlier post will tell you that) So here it is, courtesy of 1Up.com, the first ever video gameplay of Street Fighter 4. While it does look impressive I'm not quite sold on the art direction. The full 20 minute video is available for download at 1Up.com(along with a fantastic breakdown of the series for their 4 weeks of Street Fighter 4) and is a pretty good watch depending on what you want to learn about the upcoming game. But seriously, we all just want to see the money shots(the in game fighting people). Enjoy ;P