Drawn By: WrittenDusk
My first fan art in a while now and oddly enough it is on Street Fighter. This is my first attempt at doing fan art in more of a character design illustration way. I'm happy with the results, but oddly unsatisfied at the same time; a first for me as well in this aspect.
This is Juri in her alternate costume in Street Fighter V(5).
Drawing a Street Fighter fan art is odd for me because I was not a fan of fighting games until recently, and I was not a fan of Street Fighter's art style; until now. I only became aware of what "traditional fighting games" really were after I played Blazblue Calamity Trigger (created by Arc System Works) on PSP. It got me into Blazblue as a whole, and later into watching the tournaments.
Having found an appreciation for fighting games I decided to see how other fighting games compared to Blazblue. Street Fighter being one of them obviously. But at the time Street Fighter IV(4) didn't catch my eyes like Blazblue did. The character art and design wasn't really to my liking as well, so it just wasn't my thing. But Street Fighter V really caught my attention.
Although I still prefer watching Arc System Works games as opposed to other companies, Street Fighter V's overall art style made me like, and appreciate the designs of, a lot of their characters. But what really made me like it, were the animations. The weight of their moves can really be felt; especially in certain throwing moves. This feeling of weight grounds the game to reality appropriately making it enjoyable to watch just to see the characters move.
But it was not until I saw matches of Juri that made want to draw a fan art. I've seen her in Street Fighter IV and liked her design, but I didn't really get the same feeling of personality and attraction from her as she does in Street Fighter V. After watching a few matches of her in Street Fighter V, this image just popped into my head. I just felt inspired and wanted to capture her charm in my own way.
I intended for this to be a quicker drawing without too much thinking; kind of as an exercise for making quick non-sketch artwork. But it was much quicker than expected. Maybe it's because I got better without knowing, that I achieved my desired result without the amount of work I predicted I'd need (haha self-praise). I actually put more time and effort into the effects than I did colouring Juri herself.
My dissatisfaction is in the completeness of the drawing and the level of the charm that I captured. Close up I feel like I did a good job, but zoomed out I feel like some thing is missing in both departments. I don't know what at the moment still, but hopefully I find out why later. My guess is that the pose and the expression isn't wild enough.
I'm still proud and exited to share it despite my complicated feelings. ( ^ w^)b.
Let me know if you have any ideas to what is missing or any ways of making it better.
