SPL

I've been thinking for a while (years) that my FB profile needs a cover image but never got around to making one until now. This one is a tribute to the 2005 film 'Saat Po Lang' or 'SPL', which IMO contains one of the best fight scenes of the last 20 - 30 years - the knife vs baton fight between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing.

Romy is short for Romeo. Or Romar. Or Romulo ...

Ever since reading Rafe Bartholomew's Pacific Rims, I've been tossing around the idea of doing something related to Philippine basketball. I've been thinking of character types recently - this one is the cocky hotshot dude who considers himself the king of a particular court. Let's call him ... Romy (?) ... for now.

I had a difficult time nailing down this pose, for some reason. 

Boogie

More sports fan art. This one is of Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus 'Boogie' Cousins. 

Created in Manga Studio 5. It's quickly become my go-to illustration app. 

... I really should animate something.

Manny

The way Manny Pacquaio throws his flurries of punches for some reason reminds me of Kenshiro's Hokuto Hyakuretsuken from Hokuto no Ken.

Aaatatatatatatatatatatatatatata

I should probably animate something. It's been a while.

Ben McLemore

Sacramento Kings rookie Ben McLemore. 

Roughed in Sketchbook Pro and finished in Manga Studio 5. 

'Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?"

 

Taking a break from fan art, here's a character built on a cool pose from a Jianshu video I found on youtube. 

Deadly Palm Strike!

Another dip into obscure/forgotten characters, this one is Chintai, a mid-level bad guy character from the NES version of Double Dragon. He specializes in Kung Fu and throwing you into the air when you try to ground attack him. I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play around with the watercolor tools in Manga Studio 5, as I had mainly been using the oil paint tools up to this point.

And just in case it wasn't clear from previous posts, I kind of love manga-style line-based motion blur.

蝶のように舞

Lately, I've taken to drawing obscure video game characters from the 80's and early 90s because why not? I like to call it Fan Art for Forgotten Characters. This character is Aska, a female ninja from the 1993 fighting game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters aka TMNT: Mutant Warriors. Aska is an original character made specifically for the game because ... I guess Konami felt like the game needed a Japanese character?

As fighting games go, it's pretty good though it probably appeared a little too late in the 90s fighting game boom. One thing that always puts a smile on my face is that Shredder has a special move that sounds like he's yelling, "More Pushups!"