{"id":2212,"date":"2009-03-16T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2009-03-16T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:01:00","slug":"you-must-defeat-sheng-long-to-stand-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weekends ago, I had a chance to play Street Fighter IV<\/a> at a friend’s house. Had I been wearing socks while playing, those socks would in fact have been knocked off. <\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of Capcom<\/a> in general, and of their fighting games specifically–however, playing Street Fighter IV really pushed those characters and that franchise to the forefront of my thoughts. I find myself humming the music constantly. My mind has been desperately trying to create scenarios where I can justify buying the game itself, a console, a new television, and two tournament quality arcade sticks<\/a>. Of course this is all going on while I draw fan art until the sun rises. Here’s Ryu<\/a>, perhaps the single best-known of the Street Fighter cast:<\/p>\n

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I’m going to be honest with you… this one didn’t turn out terribly well. The perspective was supposed to be much more forced and dramatic, but I have this problem where apparently my brain strives desperately for mediocrity, and while drawing, I unconsciously make things moderate and boring instead of extreme and dynamic. Regardless, it’s nice to draw a character like Ryu every now and then–he’s very recognizable in spite of being so visually plain. Those factors make me feel comfortable drawing him from a rare rear view, because I don’t feel like we’re missing any interesting costume details from this angle, and I’m also confident that he’ll still be indentifiable. I thought that showing Ryu’s back turned helped emphasize his aloof demeanor. Likewise, I tried creating poses-reflecting-disposition in the other Street Fighter pieces I drew… which will be flooding this blog shortly. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weekends ago, I had a chance to play Street Fighter IV at a friend’s house. Had I been wearing socks while playing, those socks would in fact have been knocked off. I’m a big fan of Capcom in general, and of their fighting games specifically–however, playing Street Fighter IV really pushed those characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","category-video-games-brawlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}