I plan to actually revisit this project and go the whole 9 yards. Not sure if I'll share it because sometimes social media can get me stuck in my head and I don't want it to affect how I think about the project, BUT we'll see.

ANYWAY thank you if you read all my ramblings 🙇

If you made it this far then you get a random fact, but when I started this small project I was very afraid of coloring any of my stuff, I had never tackled making an illustration like that NOR had I ever done this much work for a personal project. Something about fighting games pushed me though.

LASTLY here are the old sketches that led up to this. Aside from being inspired by Darkstalkers or Skullgirls, I think the reason I made it about fish-folk was because for some reason I would randomly draw fish people??? I have no idea why. The only NEW new one is Shrimp (she's my favorite too 😌)

AND YES I even made up movesets for them because you can't design a fighting game character without a moveset 😤Back then I was watching Xrd and SFV videos like everyday, so I was proud I knew what motions should lead to what kind of moves lol. Still surprised I made these back then.

When I was making this I was looking to be a character designer so that means I had to have turnarounds of some sort. I tried to draw them how I imagined they'd pose in the game because I was imagining it would be hand drawn like Skullgirls. I had started animations for them, but...I lost them 😔

I had 4 characters in my head at the time. From left to right starting from the top we got: Coral, Moro, Shrimp (I think?), and Crunch. The names were totally made up on the spot but I still like them. Don't ask why Crunch has two mouths, he's sensitive (real talk I just thought it was cool)

I DESPERATELY want this now it would be so good.

Very true. The SNK girls all have strong designs, but something about Angel hits different.

Oh nice! Glad to hear all is good.

Oh actually?? That's really cool, now I have reason to like her even more xD

They had so many cool shots in this one. I hope they can keep this energy past the release of Sonic x Shadow Generations I would be so happy 😭