If you made Zebron a serious part of the MKDA roster I might love you forever.

There are some miracles even I can't perform, sir. Making a zebra-furry in a tux and tophat look like a serious fighting game character falls under that category. (well...serious for MOST fighting games. Tekken totally pulls shit like that and expects us to roll with it.)

I mean, I could do a centaur with black and white stripes, like how Kintaro was gonna be a tiger-man but they made him a Shokan instead...but then it wouldn't really be Zebron, would it? It's the stage magician outfit that sells the joke, after all.

This is seriously some fantastic work, Razor! I can't wait to see what you have in store for the MK 2 alternate designs.

Kung Lao's bunny is adorable, btw. <3

Lolol, u could make him as a crazy guy wearing a dead zebra and the shredded tux and hat on top of that... like a crazy hermit wizard... like what if Shang Tsung took acid and hid in the Savannah.

These are all very good. I'm looking forward to what your take will be on the MK3 costumes and characters (Sheeva and Kabal I'm most looking forward to) since they have the reputation of looking very cheesy.

But that's probably far in the future...

Glad to hear you'll be working on Skarlet, Hornbuckle, and Blaze. I'm sure you'll be working on Kintaro, Shao Kahn, and Noob Saibot too right?

Naturally, of course.

I'm interested to see your designs for characters introduced later in the series. Can't say I've seen a lot of Drahmin or Dairou fan art.

I'm actually planning on adding Dairou to Deadly Alliance and going with the dual-katanas, hired to guard Shang's Palace version from the concept art.

Razor, do a Zebra Centaur. If you can, make the dude darker than Motaro's race. I can't believe you actually read my mind, but you did, haha.

These are incredible. I can't wait to see my favorite, Skarlet. Unless of course you'll be doing Lady in Purple.

NRS really should look into hiring you and Jax007. These are tons better than the designs they came up with, especially Smoke. I still think he looks like crap in this game.

Smoke has never had a bad look as a cyborg.

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I wonder how much, if any, MK9 Skarlet influence you will use in your design. Her unfinished alternate would make a great base, imo.

I know you're probably not going to count this about Smoke's MK9 costume, but a heavily modified version of that "two wisps of smoke around a dot" is on his primary.

Are you talking about his back?

And another thing Razor,shouldn't Raiden of your universe also has that amulet,that cracks up everytime in MK9,I mean,he states that this amulet was given him by Elder Gods,which doesn't contradict anything in your universe,no? Sorry,if you mentioned about it somewhere in Raiden's description...

I just checked both his costumes up and down in the Nekropolis model viewer and I don't see any logos anywhere.



He never wore an amulet before MK9, the only thing it does is act as a convoluted plot device for MK9, a cheap attempt for the game to have its own version of Marty's fading photo in Back to the Future, and I don't even like the way it looks on him, so no, it doesn't exist in the Razorverse.

*grabs my heart and faints at the sight of your Jade art*

YOU FINALLY MADE HER!!!
And she looks awesome! You took the best parts of her official outfits and put them together along with your original design. She looks awesome. ^^

Your Smoke is also incredible, and I love that weapon for him. The kusarigama just fits him so well and the fact you made his mask look somewhat like a gasmask is also really cool. ^^

If you are going to continue the series with UMK3 as well, I'll be waiting excitedly for another Jade art. ;)

On his belt in the middle, that little V shaped thing almost looks like the two wisps of smoke, but instead of the dot there are two belt buckles.

I think you're reaching, man. That V thingy really doesn't look like any kind of real, identifiable "design" to me. Just some sort of big, fancy belt buckle. All I see when I look at it is sort of a trapezoid with a circle cut out of the center so you can see the two smaller belts inside.

Hey Razor I love how you designed smoke. the ponytail is really nice and like how you added the symbols from shaolin monks to his attire. the kusurigama is a nice touch too. I cant wait to see what else you make!

So just to let you guys know, I've made a few edits to the MK1 characters. Here's a list:

Kano Primary and Alt: Just refined his eye-plate, it always looked too rough to me.

Scorpion Alt - This one got the most drastic overhaul. The skull's been redrawn to more closely match the shape of his head and eyes in his other costumes and since the costume concept is "this is what he wore as a human", I tried to make it look a lot more like a functional ninja outfit. Sleeves have been added (though ripped, leading to their removal in his hellspawn costume), he's got the gauntlets from the Retro outfit in MK9, and his outfit is more of a brown overall now instead of black. Also, his sword is held on by a sash instead of a rope (and though you can't possibly read it at this size, the marking on the little tag is the kanji for "scorpion"), and there's a red rose tucked into his belt as a reference to the red rose his wife wears in her hair in MK9.

Sub-Zero Alt - I never liked the gauntlets I gave him the first time I drew him, so now he has better looking armor on his hands and feet.

Ermac - Obviously, I added a swarm of soul-faces to his floating telekinesis effect. That's all though.

Goro Primary - He was starting to look a bit too plain compared to everybody else, so I gave him fancier gauntlets. They're the ones he wears in 9, but gold instead of gray. I also added a stripe to his belt for a little extra color, I believe I got the idea from a Jax007 piece, so credit where credit is due there.

Goro Alt - Redesigned the Kahn logo on his chest.

Reptile Primary - Added the stitches from his MK9 alt. I was concerned about stealing thunder from the stitching on Ermac, but Reptile was the plainest looking character and needed some sort of additional detail, and I think this fits his character just as much as it does Ermac's. The difference between them is, for Ermac the stitching is on the mantle, it's just a decorative expression of his origin. On Reptile, however, the stitching is on the main body of his clothes, showing that he literally has to scrounge together what he wears from bits and scraps because he's a slave-creature with a shitty life.

That's pretty much it.

Nice updates,Razor,especially Scorpion Alt. What about MK2 cast,have smth in mind to update? Or you want to finish the whole roster,THEN update it maybe?

With MK2, I'm pretty happy with everybody I've done so far. If I had any edits to make, I already made them much earlier on. This MK1 stuff was just me taking advantage of my current motivation to draw, to finally take care of a list of things I've wanted to change for a long time.

Ow,okay,lol,I hope you still have some motivation for the rest cast of MK2,cuz I am checking on this thread every day

Always loved these drawings of yours, always hated how long it takes for you to do them though. :)

Still waiting on MK3 :(

Seen most of these before, but you added some nice touch ups and the ones I haven't seen look SICK. Smoke especially.

Hurry up with the rest!

Hm, can't believe I only noticed this now... Any reason you kept Smoke's spear but gave Jade her boomerang despite her not having it in MK2?

He doesn't have the same spear as Scorpion, he has a stand-in. It's visually similar but I imagine him fighting more uniquely with it than in MK2. I see him using the sickle end in combos like that axe thing they had in UMK3.

The thing is, Jade's moves have been set in stone since UMK3, she has an established, canon movelist and the way she fought in MK2 is basically apocrypha. Storywise, she never really used fans at all. Smoke's never quite fought the same way for any two games in a row, so you can do whatever the fuck you want with him.

But as an MK2 reference, Jade has the one of her canon weapons which is most similar to a fan, without actually being a fan. I even colored it bronze like her MK2 fans are. So it's a stand-in too.