AHA! now that you've said that I can actually see the 80's pop rock look!
Meh, I'm pretty much done with Sindel now anyway but may try and 'fix' that potentially when I work on a final piece for the costume.

I am definately doing all of the females, I want to get through the whole roster, including the males and maybe even afew minor characters.


I finally settled on a Jade concept I'm happy with and am just doing colour tests to see what looks best but she'll defiantely be up this weekend along with Khameleon, once I get home to my trusty scanner.

If anyone has any imput as to elements of costume they'd like to see used on characters I'm still yet to do feel free to let me know. Particularly with regard to the males and Li Mei, who is proving a right buggar to come up with a concept I actually like.

Thanks
-Dan

I would lvoe to come up with concepts for all th characters (in some ways I have at least one for every character in my head, but as you will se from my artwork on the sight my art skills are somewhat dodgy hah).

Li mei i can understand being hard. For me, I think it would be dependant on a story, like how she had the armour costume in MKD to go along with the 'Dragon king warrior' thing to her storyline.
For a general concept tho I think you have to go along the lines of the bikini-type things we've seen in MKDA alt and MKD primary, and just flesh the costume out with pattern and/or battle armour and/or accessories/head gear. Thats my take anyway.

I like the idea you have to give the characters lines instead of eyes, noses, and mouths.





JK



sindel isw my favorite

Li Mei is defiantely proving a difficult onw, but I think i'm getting somewhere with her now.

Tomorrow I will finally have access to my scanner again and so will be on another uploading spree, expect to see a finish Khameleon, Jade, Kitana and possibly Ashrah and/or Frost.

I'll quite possibly move on to afew of the male characters after that as the remaining females designs are either not working for me or looking too much like previous incarnations for my liking (it is extremely hard to stray too far from that flawless Deception design of Mileena's)

So if anyone has a preference to male character they'd like to see first be sure to let me know as so far the only one I've given much thought to is Kabal and I'm not sure thats even gonna be visualised in a hurry.

-Dan

Can't wait to see Jade. ^^

Alrighty, so here's the finalised Khameleon!!

It came out a little messier than I hoped but I'm happy with it. I basically wanted to add more mystery to the character while retaining elements of her ninja palette swap roots.
She's a character who uses stealth and her disguising abilities to remain undetected so I wanted to reflect that in her design, hence the hooded appearance and light grey colouring. (I detested the torquise colour of her Armageddon render) She also has little elements of Zaterran armour similar to some of Reptiles previous designs and the skull of one of her races fallen as a shoulder guard, kind of as a reminder of her dedication to saving her race.

This was one of the first designs I thought of when I decided I wanted to make these character concepts as Khameleon has always been a character I've been interested in. She was destroyed in my opinion by MKA and so this is my attempt at redeeming her as a character with alot of potential and hopefully what you agree is a decent design.

Kitana will be up later :)

-Dan

I always wanted Khameleon to have the typical grey colour scheme but also for her to Reptillian, not human or transparent like in MKA.

In you design, which i really like, the hooded vibe is nice, is Khamelon transparent?

Anyway I wouldnt say MK 'destroyed' Khameleon. It didnt help her out all that much either. i think the lack of own moves hit her harder than the dull green colour. It was too close to Jade. She should have been grey or white. And at least had one or two moves of her own. MKA did explain her asence from the games tho so that is at least something I guess.

Im just disappointed that they seem to be focussing on makin that 'Woman-in-red' in MK9 than making Khameleon properly (or expanding upon Sareena).

Glad you like it :) and no she's not transparent, I'd have her with grey scales with a slight green tint. Basically I wanted her to be almost completely grey with gold accents to make the stealth element slightly more beleivable than it would be with a girl in a technicolour swimsuit.

I just think they had an opportunity to make something of her like they tried with characters like Sheeva, Rain and Stryker, but instead they copped out and went with a smaller,bustier version of Chameleon., which really got me pissed.


Anywhoo here's my version of Kitana!

My aim here was to create a more respectable design, while still keeping with her traditional assasin-esque attire. I wanted her to look like a Princess to Edenia while still having it be resonably believable that she could beat the crap out of you.
I gave her the traditonal bun as I really feel the long flowing hair should be exclusive to Sindel, seeing as she orginated it. The design also features my new Edenian theme of chiffon, in her sleeves and she has thigh holsters for her fans, simply because it annoys me how they appear from nowhere.

Just like the others this was drawn over a pre-made template and is drawn and coloured entirely in fineliners.
Comments/Critiques welcome as always.

Thanks
-Dan

Your costume designs are so elegant, yet simple. And most of them look so much better than the stuff we've seen these characters in before. I wish you worked in costume design for this series.

Really like the design idea.

I adore the mask and how it looks like her fan, the holsters are a must ahve for her IMO, and I like the sleeve idea (something I tried to incorporate into a few of my designs, but with less success haha). My only gripe is that I would prefer the chiffon type material to cover her bust/mid-riff up to the bottom of her neck and leave only the tops of her legs bare. But generally good idea. (The colour of the sleevess im not too sure on, but I think tis the scanner that has accented that colour, I can see where you were going).

Dont agree with the long flowing hair to belong to Sindel tho. I think it suits Kitana perfectly, and it could be genetic hehe. Its not like she uses her hair in moves or fatalities like Sindel did/will. thats what is unique to Sindel.

Thankyou, that's extremely kind.
To have the chance to actually see my designs realised would be beyond a dream, and it's extremely flattering to have you say my designs would be game-worthy.



Thankyou! The fan design on the mask was something I really wanted to include and is something that will occur with basically every masked ninja, having an oppropriate design, similar to how Khameleon had the snake fangs on hers.

I did consider using the chiffon to cover her chest but my design here is also backless and so I felt it would kind of redundant, and yes the colour was brightened quite abit through scanning, it should basically be a slightly lighter/brighter version of the actually main body. I don't know why the long hair on Kitana bothers me, I didn't find it as much of an issue in MKDA when it was tied up, but in this new game it's longer than Sindels and I just always associated the crazy long hair with her so I wanted to keep that exclusive :)

Jade's gonna be next up, I'm just trying to get the colouring just right.
-Dan

And here she is: Jade!!

This one proved beyond difficult to perfect at such a small scale due to the crazy detail I included, and unfortunately alot of that detail has been butchered by my scanner.

The basic premise of this design was that while Jade is one of those beautiful, elegant Edenians she isn't royalty, she's a warrior. I see her as the most skilled of the edenian forces and a royal guard through and through. As a result I tried something alot more fighter suitable than the costumes of Kitana, SIndel and Tanya.

She still has the chiffon element in the form of a one sleeved top, but it isn't as loose or 'pretty' as when it was used for the others. She also has more elements of armour than the other girls as I see them as only getting there hands dirty when completely necessairy, while Jade should be prepared to fight at any time.

Up until two days ago the front train of her costume was a green chiffon one piece but after seeing her full MK9 design in detail I got new inspiration and came up with the two satin-esque trains.

Colouring got abit screwed in the scanning and the brown I used for her skin came out more like a light shade of black.

Hopefully you all like it :)
Template and fineliners used as per

-Dan

Very beautiful. You did not disappoint me with this! It looks absolutely excellent. Good job. ^^

..and now I can breathe! aha
I'm really glad you liked the result, as to be honest I was still having doubts about the design well up to when I posted it on here.


Got an in-progress Sonya coming up soon :)

Quick sneak peak at Sonya

Let me know what y'all think

-Dan

Holy crap, a Sonya that looks like a military officer.

You are my hero, sir.

AHA! I've always wanted to be someone's hero... :)

I think the thing with Sonya is that with every one of her designs the team have got some aspects spot on, and some completely and utterly wrong. It was fairly easy to come up with this concept cos all I had to do was put those elements that worked so well into one neat and tidy design.

...and now, in a Boon inspired reveal I give you a preveiw of my first male design.

Clicky!


Any ideas on who it is?

You're making a male version of Tanya?

No, wait a minute.

Not that.

I've got it!

Cyrax!

..Nope, not Cyrax. Nice try though :)

I do love the male Tanya idea though ahah! Maybe if I ever complete the roster I'll move on to some transgendered characters

Hrmm, gold and black. Scorpion, Shang Tsung, or Taven.

and if you had to decide on one? =P

Scorpion?

Well...I suppose Shang would be my first guess.

The shinguards, and that slight hint of vest corner at the top remind me most of past Scorpion outfits...but it does appear to be a vest, not a ninja loincloth. And I can't see Scorp wearing thigh-high boots.

And Taven is pretty unpopular, I'd be surprised to see fanart of him. (though personally, I actually like the character a lot)

Well the leg actually belongs to Taven!
I'm planning on designing the whole roster (bar Mokap) and so will be doing even the most unpopular of characters.

This weekends gonna be a busy one!
Got a finished Sonya to upload along with Taven and so far two other finished male designs, with potentially even more cropping up before sunday.

Any requests to keep me busy?