First off let me say I had a blast working on this piece. It's for the very cool looking Street Fighter show at Gallery Nucleus opening this Friday in Los Angeles. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend, but if anyone is able to make it, let me know how it goes. Since the majority of my work lately has been fairly serious, I really wanted to do a picture of a bunch of characters beating the junk out of each other! So I picked Sagat, Cammy, Vega, and Dhalsim... I usually use a ton of reference, but for this piece I really tried to push myself to draw a lot from my head, or at least really push the limited reference I had. I'm pretty pleased with the final result!
By the way, the second image is the sketch I did before I transfered that onto the paper and inked the final with sumi ink and brush. I used a little bit of a B pencil to add the mid-tones on the tattoos and such.
And if anyone is interested in coloring this image, feel free to email me, and I'll send you the hi-res version!
all the best,
-francis
20 comments:
These are really nice Francis. Always fun and inspirational to see your work. Cheers!
Hotness, love the composition.
Tremendous -- always love the fluid quality of your work.
really cool and graphic.
Hey Francis,
I'd love to take a crack at these colors. Shoot me the image and I'll do some wild mix media on it.
josephkarg@gmail.com
Peace,
Joe
I see what you were saying earlier, it does have a lot of life to it! Great job man!
Very cool piece! I can't wait to check out Street Fighter IV, I haven't played one of those since I was a kid.
nice line quality! I like!
Nice! I really dig the composition and energy in this.
K.O. ... Perfect !
Compositional Gold!
its looks solid man love the texture by the faces and the line weight is really nice !!!
lotsa life! seems like you loosened up, and didn't rely on a photo. your anatomy familiarity really comes through.
also, i was listening to an interview and frank stockton referenced you.
this piece came out bad ass man, awesome work!!!!!!!
nice action and composition man!
Awesomeness!!
FANTÁSTICO!
I love this piece - great action! I was planning on attending the reception tomorrow... I can't wait to see it in person!
Dammit I hate you. I am the biggest Streetfighter fan on earth. Awesome piece and I wish I could have seen the show.
thanks guys, appreciate it!!!
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