Art - Drawing SCORPION from MORTAL KOMBAT old school style!

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Drew me some nostalgic stuff at the moment, man, I love Mortal Kombat! Scorpion is like the most iconic MK character of all, wanted to give it a nostalgic approach! So much hype at the moment :D

OMG I soooo love the game series...

When I was a kid I played it too much, and always wanted to play a tournament and win it, like a national tournament, and it was a goal..

That was like in 1995, when I was 8 or 9 years old...

And then in 2011 the new MK came out in the market it was MK9, and the Tekken master around here, in Serbia, made me go through it all! Every frame, every juggle, every combo, every punch, reaction, hitbox, like everything.

Sooo, after like, 16 years or so, I won the tournament without a single loss, climbed up the ladder and took the title of an MK champion. There were not even combos posted on the net, nor the juggles, had to invent them in a couple of days, great feeling!

Won the tournament, got my life goal out of the way and stopped playing that particular game, just like casual, people were challenging me, I just got the rewards and wanted the most awesome of all...

The poster from a tournament with my name signed on it. Gaming magazines around here wrote about it, sooo, it really was a life goal of sorts. (won as Cyrax)

Anyway, without further writing, here is the process of this digital drawing in Photoshop with a help of a drawing pad coming to life:

Just an loving old school sketch with a pose to light things on fire

Gotta get TOASTY with the details coming in

Gimme more, setting things on fire

Looks like Noob Saibot to me? Ok, gonna go through the colors n shit

FINISH HIM! Colors are in, shading is in, lighting effects are in, background work too, giving it an Old School vibe, and that's kinda it. I could of gone into more details but hey, yo, why? This is what I wanted :D

Awesome fact:

The tournament we played was held in a movie theater, we were on the balcony and fights were projected from there. The crowd was down there eating popcorn and cheering.. Great times!

Hope you found this interesting, helpful or whatever, Mortal Kombat forever!

Have an AWESOME day and flow!