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 This piece started with a very simple idea: “wouldn’t Juri look cool in Jin’s trousers”. That pretty much sums up the inspiration for this piece ;D

I’d planned to draw a scene in a clothes shop with various Tekken characters trying on SF outfits and vice versa… However, with only a day to get my entry in before the competition deadline I soon realised this was impossible! Enter Heihachi dressed as Rufus to add a comical twist to the piece and create the epic Street Fighter X Tekken Cosplay Battle!

I sketched the two characters in pencil first, and inked with a black graphics pen. Then I scanned and tidied up the lines, before colouring in Photoshop. It’s unusual for me to ink non-digitally, but when working to a short deadline I just find it that much more expressive and likely to capture the spirit of what I’m going for quickly.

Oh, and yes, Juri has the wrong eye glowing I had to flip her at the end to add in my title because the composition looked weird with the SFXT logo on the right of the piece

I pretty much never play Juri – but damn what a great character design! In my opinion, Capcom design the better characters, whilst the outfits in Tekken are more interesting, so I wanted to combine those two. Tekken 3 was my favourite in the series (so far!), and so I picked Jin’s trousers and Nina’s, err, top and bra, from that game. The gloves are actually from a later game’s version of Jin. Oh, and the sword is Yoshimitsu’s

Heihachi was the natural choice as the comedy character to juxtapose against Juri because he’s already quite silly looking with that hair and the fact that he’s the most overly-muscular old man ever (ok, so I exaggerated it a bit in this piece, but still!).

He’s also one of my favourite Tekken characters, and I think he suddenly became about 1000% cooler when they made his hair grey, so I chose to draw him that way!