Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Tribute, currently about SF I

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

You can see all Street Fighter I Character artworks so far via this Blog/Journal on deviantART

Update 20.12.2016
All 24 Street Fighter I spots are taken, I am glad that three artists from MFG joined this Tribute so far. We will jump to SF II as soon as all 24 SF I character illustrations are drawn and submitted. Six of the 24 SF I character spots are drawn already.

Updated (15.12.):
Currently 12 of the 12 SF I characters are claimed already only spots for Geki, Ken, Ryu, Lee, Mikeand Gen are left.


Since the SF series celebrates its 30th Anniversary next year, I organized a new art collaboration about it through my group Fighting Games Elite on deviantART and my website Game-Art-HQ where the artworks will be hosted and acompanied by descriptions about the characters and the participating artists.
Back in 2012 our 25th Anniversaty Tribute was covered by sites like Eventhubs and even Capcom itself and a couple of the artworks landed in the official Tribute Book by Capcom/Udon.

The 30th Anniversary Tribute will endure through the whole year. The idea this time is to cover all characters with 2 illustrations per character and per game, we are currently and most likely until February working on the 12 characters from the classic Street Fighter to have the first gallery done in the first March week.

Sagat gets drawn without his scar on his chest, Birdie is the "sick" pale punk and Joe..well Joe is Joe. The illustrations of the SF I characters are supposed to illustrate how Ken etc looked back in 1987.

The character illustrations don't need a background,details and should be .png files just like the examples on top of this post.


The long.time plan is to get a big tribute together that covers all characters from red haired Ryu back in 1987 up to the latest SFV DLC character in 2017.

[hatter]

So uhh, if I want to submit something, should I just post it here or send it to you in PM or on dA or something?

Other than that, sounds like an interesting idea.

[ShinZankuro]

I have interest to draw Lee

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

It makes the most sense if you would submit it on dA since there will be a gallery in the FGE group about this project

The 2012 25th Anniversary Artworks are there in the "Past projects" gallery now since there are already a lot of folders there but the current Tribute gallery will be on top there for at least 2 years, you can share it everywhere else too, and it does not matter if you share it here before on dA etc.

Important is just that we get a nice art collaboration together again. You can see how we (Myself and a couple of helpers that are also artists) presentate the artworks on Game-Art-HQ here with the Pokemon Gen I Tribute.

Beside Sagat and for some reason...Joe! all SF I characters have still a spot left, Ryu, Ken, Adon and Birdie have still 2 spots left.

@ShinZankuro, just saw your comment on dA too, Lee is yours, don't forget he should look like in his classic SF I design. When your take on him is done, just submit it to dA, leave me a comment there or here and I do the rest ^^

ps: Just a small idea, after I saw your gallery I thought it could be fun to see your Lee being drawn in the MVC2 art-style you used on many other characters. That would be something else!

[hatter]

Thanks for the swift reply. When it gets to the SF2 stuff, I'll have some material to submit. ; )

[ShinZankuro]

ps: Just a small idea, after I saw your gallery I thought it could be fun to see your Lee being drawn in the MVC2 art-style you used on many other characters. That would be something else!

That's exactly what I'm going to do xD

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

I will mention it here when we moved on to SFII but I can't promise that all 17 characters will still be available since artists that claimed a SF I spot get the right to "secure" a later character. It is the standard that most people want to submit a Chun Li or Cammy but every character will count the same in this tribute

@Zankuro *5* I am looking forward to that. Was always a big  fan of the MVC2 style by Bengus.

[hatter]

I will mention it here when we moved on to SFII but I can't promise that all 17 characters will still be available since artists that claimed a SF I spot get the right to "secure" a later character. It is the standard that most people want to submit a Chun Li or Cammy but every character will count the same in this tribute

Goddammit I'd draw something now if it weren't for end of the semester bullshit.

I'll see if I can come up with something now then . Other than that, here's to hoping no one claims DeeJay.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Heh, don't worry about Dee Jay. I remember that it was difficult to find two people to draw him back in 2012 =/

Back than I made a big list with all SF I - SFXT characters and Dee Jay, Rufus, the Cycloids from SFEX and for some reason Rolento were among the last ones that were taken...after months. Even damn Darun Mister from SFEX got his two spots taken faster.

The SF I character deadline is the 15th February, if you want to take one of them to secure Dee Jay, let me know and you have time till mid Feb. If you don't want to take one of the SF1 chars just wait till I announce that we moved on to SF II, most likely in the first March week. We will most likely have a deadline in April for the SF II characters.

[hatter]

Alright, I'll let you know ASAP whether I decide to do something or not. I'll PM you about it tomorrow.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Small update, all 12 SF I characters are taken now, beside Sagat, Adon and Joe the others are still available with one spot per character.


Big kudos go to ShinZankuro for finishing the first illustration of the SF Tribute with his take on Lee in the MVC2 style!

[Trololo]

Hey, ShinZankuro!
Nice Lee you got there.
And man, I see that tastiest characters are unvacant already...
Well then, I wanna try this too. I'll take Mike. I hope my "skill" will be worthy enough to be accepted... XD

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Nice!




Back in 2012 we had this badass take on Mike but something a lot more traditional that sticks to his kinda boring design would fit more this time, browsed through your gallery and saw your drew Joe already, looks good! The 2nd Mike spot is yours!

[Kienay]

Are there still slots open? The list and updates here differ from those on your linked da page, so I am confused.
I'd be happy to take whoever is least popular/ likely to get picked. Got a soft spot for the kid that's left out.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

http://fighting-games-elite.deviantart.com/journal/SF-30th-Anniversary-Tribute-Round-I-SFI-650641345

^^ well that list is up to date, just updated it after Mike got claimed the 2nd time

The remaining characters with a remaining spot are:

Ryu, Ken, Birdie, Gen, Lee and Retsu

Hard to say who's the least popular of them but my vote would go to Lee or Retsu


Do you have a dA account too?

[Kienay]

Yes, I do have a dA account. But it's barren and haven't used it for about a decade anyway. Never was too much into sharing stuff online. In case you'd like to see some of my work, I could only point to my topic on MFG.
http://mugenguild.com/forum/msg.2301548
Just unfinished sketches, but it's about the most recent stuff I could show. Have been busy with working on a game project instead the last couple of days.

Checking out the options, Retsu appears most interesting to me.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Alrighty, Retsu is yours!

[Kienay]

Oh, nice! Already working on it.

Btw, I remembered that I created a new dA account just a few days ago. Nothing on there, yet, but it does exist. ^^"
http://kienay.deviantart.com/

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Alrighty, I will use that one in the journal, please upload your take on Retsu there when it is done!

Right now 19 of the 24 spots are taken btw, better than I thought, this project was anounced just 3 days ago.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Small Update, MFG's own Trololo created the first of the two Mike illustrations,  Ken was done by demonic-brute and only 2 spots are left now, 1 for Ken  and Lee so if you want to be a part of the SF I tribute be quick.

If this continues like now and all artists submitted their works long before the deadline we can continue with SF II sooner as planned.

Update 2: All spots are taken.