Nightmare from Namco's Soul Calibur 2. (hence the red hair ) It actually feels kinda strange to draw fanart, I generally prefer drawing my own characters, or those of people I know, or at least who I know are going to see it. ^_~ Guess it makes a nice change, although if this picture gets way more attention than anything else I've ever done, I am going to cry.

I drew this for the art comp at AVcon '03, in fact being my normal disorganised self I ended up spending the whole of Thursday making the picture (the con was on the weekend) and spent friday trying to find someone to print it out at A3 size for me. x_x very stressful, both the picture making, and the finding someone to print it part.

I sketched and brush inked the linework on A3 cartridge paper, then scanned it in and cel shaded it in Photoshop 5.5 . I tried a few tricks to add the patchy skin colour, and the rust or fine blood spray on the armour, I think it worked out well ^_^ The background is suitably generic, but I just wanted something to set the mood without detracting from it. No tablet or filter work (other than Gaussian blur for tweaking the background) on this one, just a lot of selections and some layer intersection tricks.

And it got first place in the gameart category! *^_^*