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Behold, my pencils for the alternate cover I did for issue #3 of Udon's STREET FIGHTER LEGENDS: IBUKI #3, due to hit the shelves of your Local Comics Store on June 30, 2010. The book itself features words by :iconzubby:, pretty pictures by :iconomar-dogan:.

As I have little taste for inking nowadays (not that I ever did, even back in the day), it was decided to have the piece colored directly from my pencils, which :iconfrozenlilacs: did quite nicely; I'll post that final version shortly.

This version admittedly looks a fair bit more static and less dynamic than the original rough, which you can see here (where it lurks, well-hidden, in the "scraps" section of my gallery):



The fact that I left the shurikens' trails off (to better be depicted as transparent streaks and highlight blurs in the coloring stage) and depicted the projectiles as static objects certainly doesn't add much kineticism, it's true; then again, my attempts to depict motion-blurred objects with smearing and streaking line art have often been at odds with colorists' work, so what the heck.

Furthermore, the original rough also has a bit more energy than the pencils because I had to shift Ibuki's figure to a more upright orientation on the final illo to keep her clear of the various logos and such. The rough has a bit better diagonal flow, IMHO, even if that flow reads right-to-left, which is normally quite the bugaboo for me (as I spend almost all of my time doing sequential art, which requires left-to-right flow).

Have to say, I considered adding quite a few more bizarrely shaped shuriken to the piece, as I'd dug up plenty of colorful ninjutsu-tool reference for a Ninjette fight scene that wound up getting cut from EMPOWERED volume six... Oh, well.

Speaking of (my original character) Ninjette, I was vaguely discomfited to realize that she has a hairstyle broadly similar to that of fellow kunoichi Ibuki:


I was vaguely aware of Ibuki from her appearances in the Capcom art books (though I'd never drawn the character before this cover), but I can attest that Ninjette's hair design is only coincidentally similar; if anything, her hairstyle was prolly influenced by that of Jamadagni from my long-ago TITANS: SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE one-shot for DC (which in turn was prolly influenced by something else, in all likelihood).

Heck, if I had the time (I don't, sadly), I'd prolly do a sketch of Ninjette PLAYING Ibuki as a fight-game character, which would be rather recursively amusing; then again, it's been established in EMPOWERED that she's much better at actual, real-life ninjutsu than video-game ninjutsu...
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*HectorRubilar Jan 27, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Hey I just colorize this piece I hope you like it!
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~Gargu Dec 21, 2010
I just wanted to write this:

"Your Ibuki is a lot like Nnjette. COINCIDENCE?"

So, yeah.
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~Donatato Jul 6, 2010
Very cool, i'm a big fan of street fighter!
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~DE-Juanchi Jun 25, 2010
bro this is some crazy pencil drawing. do yo by any chance use diferent types of pencil to add the shadow and other part of it.
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:iconadamwarren:
*AdamWarren Jun 25, 2010  Professional General Artist
Nahh, I'm pretty sure I used the same lead for everything... HB, if I recall correctly.
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~DE-Juanchi Jun 26, 2010
nice...and you make it look nice and clean. compare to mine "sigh" i need to get that down.
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Mood: Joy ~haruukunn Jun 20, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
IBUKI!!
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~Mello254 Jun 19, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
love it love your drawing style and ibuki's the only character i pick in super street fighter IV lol
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~Identity-Glitch Jun 18, 2010
Ibuki!!!!!!
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~CodyMau Jun 18, 2010
She fit into your style pretty well if you ask me. I'd be happy to see more of the capcom girls fall into your lap for pictures in the future.

I wouldn't worry too much about the copy in hair design. That looks been flying around with martial arts anime women for over a decade now. lol
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