Wrestling illustrations -Neeva VS Tonda 1

Hello again,

I hope you are all doing well!

Now as you know, I’m currently working on the wrestlers story. And this week I made several sketches &  illustartions for the wrestle-match-minigame!

So the idea here is to show an illustration every time you win or lose a round. And these will be close-ups of wrestling poses.  Now in total I will be making 12 illustrations for this mini-game, and today I’ll show you the first two I finished.

So the first mini-game match will be between Tonda and Neeva. And in the following illustrations Neeva is the winner.

Pose 1

So this is the first pose where Neeva wins!

While comming up with these wrestle poses, I tried to take in account the girls personality and wrestle style. And of course as this is Space Rescue, things will always stay pretty friendly & fun :)

And this is a gif showing a few steps of the drawing proces.

Pose 2

And this is Neeva’s second victory pose.

And another gif showing a few steps of the drawing proces.

And then there is another thing I wanted to show. Now to make my linework, I usually just draw it by hand, creating soft painted lines. But occassionally I need to add some tighter linework as well. And to do that,  I use Photoshops ‘shape tool’. I realize it’s a bit of an uncommen techique, but it really works for me. I actually used to work a lot with the shape tool on previous projects & got quite handy with it!

Well, that’s all I have for now. I hope you like it :)

Oh- I still need to name these wrestle poses (so I a commentator can talk about them during the match). ...If you have any good ideas on that, please let me know!

All the best!

-Robin

* - Whoa!- why 12 illustrations you might think?

Well, to win a match you need to pin down your opponent 2 times. And each time that happens I’ll show a unique illustration of your succes. But you can also lose of course, and then the opponent pins you down. This leads to 4 unique illustrations for each match.  And because this will be a competition between all girls, there will be 3 x 4 possible outcomes, leading to 12 illustrations :)