Zet13 - Booshelf Commission Sale - Elena (Patreon)

 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  

(Sarcasm) Thank you, Patreon, for not allowing me to post any artwork here because of your community guidelines.