Here we have a colored version of
Elena that
Zet13 did as part of his “Bookshelf Commission Sale”.
The setup of the sale was that Zet took a picture of a set of books on
his bookshelf which ranged from different manga, a few art books,
graphic novels and so on. The idea behind it that we, the
commissioners, would look through the titles and come up with a
commission for him to do of a character or characters from those books.
A rather clever idea in my opinion because it required a certain level
of esoteric knowledge on part of us. As for me, I saw that he had an
art book for Street Fighter and I asked him if Elena was in it. My
reason was because Elena was in my commission idea list and I already
had asked him to do
Cammy
earlier this year. Again, my reasoning is that there are characters in
Street Fighter that are so underplayed or aren’t as noticed because of
the ones that have a longer standing tenure with the game series, such
as Chun-Li, who (and let’s be honest about this) is pretty much Capcom’s
cover girl. So, I say let’s give the other girls a shot.
Besides, I’ve come to like Elena’s style of fighting because she uses
her legs more than anything else. Most fighters in the game seem to
rely more on their fists and the legs become secondary. Some of you
might know this but for those of you who don’t: the reason why Elena
uses her legs more is because of a style of Brazillian Martial arts that
combines dance, acrobatics and music. And if any of you have seen the
legs that Elena has in the game, she is rather built for it.
The task of coloring Elena became only tricky when it came to her bangles, and as my friend
Inkonherlips
had once remarked, she had the widest color pallet range of any of the
characters in the street fighter games thanks to the different colored
bangles that she had.
The next challenge was the background. I went through the different
stage backgrounds in the game and found Elena’s stage and used that as a
basis and rendered it as best as I could in my own style. Such as the
wooden bridge that she’s sitting on and the African landscape and the
snow-capped mountain in the far distance. I’d like to think that I did
well, especially for someone who doesn’t do backgrounds that much.
Note: All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older
© Elena - Street Fighter 4 - Capcom