Its decent. The pose is a little wonky and he seems a little short. The coloring is a bit off as well, as you have a bright light source behind and around him, but it has no real effect on the placement of light within the artwork, nor does it cause any discoloration on Tsung of the rest of the image, except the airbrushing at his feet.

The writing in the first paragraph is awful, no offense to Chrome, and features a few typos and, worst of all, colorful and flowery language that seems completely out of place. "Can you phathom(sic) the epiphany of the revelation of the utter failure of such an enterprise?" I mean, come one. I can make it 10x clearer in 5 secs. Here: "Can you even begin imagine being so close to immortality, yet have it stolen from you?" There. Now it makes sense. -_-

As said, the pose is a little funny. I understand that it could be done, but it just seems too out of place and not so realistic. The feet seem a bit small to me, but that may be it. You put a nice expression on his face though, good job on that one.

As for the bio, seemed to have a lot of...well, nothing much except fancy words and over-explanation/droning about certain thing. The obtuse writing really takes away from the biography, as I had to reread a few parts a second time over, which drew me away from actually feeling Shang Tsung himself. If anything, I like this tone of voice more than the original Shang Tsung bio, which was just an ass-kisser.

Good work, but I was expecting more from such accomplished people.

Pic is really good, except bit short feet. :D But the text, there was just too many words that I wasn ́t able to understand, and I think that my english quite good. It would sound much better with more ordinary words...

"....and I will rapture eternal rape upon those who have made my descent upon me."

Not too much I can say about this piece except that it's decent 2.5/5

OK...

The Artwork:
I'll second Darklord_Xei's criticism about the lighting around Tsung's frame not really affecting much of anything else; it throws off the overall effect of the pic. That needs work. But I don't get the criticism about the pose. Tsung _is_ a sorcerer after all, and the pose seems to fit. It looks as if he's about to cast a powerful spell.

The Writing:
Oy. My head hurts. "I'll rapture eternal rape"? BWHUT??! I actually read and re-read this a couple of times. Aculeus, Chrome, I see that there's a story somewhere underneath all that painfully gnarled writing and it's actually a pretty good and compelling one. I took it upon myself to re-write it. Hopefully, it's more concise without losing the meaning or the story that you wrote, Chrome. And if I did end up changing anything, i hope I at least stayed true to the character. See next post...

SHANG TSUNG

You can't imagine the price of immortality.

You can't imagine the struggle to avoid the silent dread of death.

Most of all, you can't truly fathom the fear of the inevitability of your own fate.

Yet, through the deeds and curses of dark deities, I had exceeded the limits of mortality. Raiden's self-sacrificial blast did little to harm Onaga, but blew my temporal form into the soulnado. Once the runestone that connected it to reality was destroyed, the soulnado disappeared into the heavens, along with my ever-consuming essence. There I feasted on as many souls as I could, and almost instantly regained what passed for "my" soul...

Or so I thought. In a dark twist of fate, my form was thrown from the heavens into the remains of my Outworld palace. To gather strength and survive, I drained the souls of the remaining inhabitants of the village once enslaved by the Deadly Alliance. It was then that I discovered I no longer had the thirst for souls that the gods placed upon me; they had freed me from my curse! In its place, however, was the unnatural power to instantly drain the life force from everything within sight. I have evolved beyond mere sorcery; though I now possess eternal life and youth, I have become the very essence of ruin and decay. It would seem that I am damned to an eternity of being alone and forgotten. Unless...

While in the soulnado, my soul intertwined with Raiden's essence, and we did battle amidst the swirling ether. Through this battle, I learned many secrets. I will use this knowledge, along with my newfound unlimited power, to visit vengeance upon Raiden for setting me upon this course. Once I finish him, I will bring eternal torture and despair to all who have humiliated me; be it Liu Kang, Quan Chi, or Shao Kahn, it doesn't matter. Should Mortal Kombat be fought again, I will prevail in my quest and find a new existence for myself!

Excellent work as always.

5/5.

As usual, I appreciate everybody's comments. They are especially insightful this time.

Regarding the green light issue... My intent was for it to appear as though the light was not coming out of Shang, but rather from behind him; by like 5 or 6 ft.

If this were the case you wouldn't see much green on him, but the shadow on his feet would have been angled differently- technically, this is where I messed up.

I thought Chrome said "the next one will get more time and attention" after the Hotaru bio was so long-winded?

This is much shorter, and tells more story to boot, but now it reads like whoever wrote it is an immigrant still learning the English language.

The artwork is excellently done as usual, though. I like how so much of it is the same as his DA armor, but it's different at the same time. If I had one complaint, it's that Shang looks a little grainy in spots, almost like the pixel deterioration that happens to sprite edits.

Man, I didn't even see this one.

I'll say that the Art absolutely superceeds the bio this time. Simply reads like it was over analyzed.

high 4/5 nonetheless though.

Shangs face is not "Asian". thats a problem.

Well, yeah, he does look a bit more European than I would envision Tsung to be, but it's still a nice piece of art work. I like the little details and what not. Good job. The writing is meh-meh.. but that's fine. My only major gripe is that I think (in this piece at least) that Tsung's arms should be bare. The "sleeves" look like spandex or even paint, just not natural for sleeves.

In all, keep up the nice work.

Yes, I thought I could go better after the Hotaru bios but in the meantime I realized how oddly futile was to try anyway. Truth is, I am done with MK and
I basically retired from any kind of MK stuff right now.

Well even so, your "over analyzed" lit- superseded a hell of a lot for even the Mk Team in it's overall history. I'll be honest here and say, I wouldn't want you to "stop" writing for whatever character, I'd simply say...just do another one. Even though I've read of your opinion on the general subject of Mk.

Meh, my take. Probably just as futile nonetheless...