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Published: 2010-10-27 07:07:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 11712; Favourites: 211; Downloads: 137
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My favorite character ever, Ryu from Street Fighter....Alternate Costume version! Noticed my new icon? This was one of several unused alt costumes that was shown in a SSFIV artbook released in Japan not too long ago. I remember seeing Akiman draw him years ago with a beard and long hair and I've always wanted to see a older Ryu like this.....sucks that the SSFIV art staff drew many awesome alts and won't use it. Very Mitsurugi like hair and beard'stach right?Here's a link to the picture of Ryu's unused Alternate Costumes if ya wanted to see. [link]
P.S. Capcom and Udon.......release the Artbook overseas already!!
14 + hours.
I started this about 2 months ago when I saw the art of Ryu's alts. Sadly, I didn't work on it steadily since CPS3 colors are such a pain to learn properly....had to work on it on and off. I have several sprites(about 3) that are left unfinished because I wanted to color it like SF3....I'm just glad this one finished and turned out pretty well compared to my C.Viper or my ugly colored Gouken.
Lineart took about 40-50 mins and the rest was just coloring it like a CPS3 sprite......such beautiful colors yet such a pain to learn. I tried mimicking the SF3 style as best of my ability and referenced several characters from Ryu, Alex, Urien and Makoto. SF3 anatomy is awesome.....it teaches you a lot of things if you wanted to learn exaggerated styles like Capcom's. Overall this sprite was a huge pain but I looooove it.....definitely one of my fav sprites I've made so far!
Ryu is from Street Fighter and belongs to Capcom.....CAPGOD.
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Would have been an awesome look for SFV. Too bad. Capcom refuses to re imagine or grow their characters.
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Capcom make this an Alt! Haha if Abel can have facial hair.... why can't samurai-esque Ryu have some
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Wow, that would actually get me to use Ryu if he looked like this. And the sprite looks like it belongs in SFA3 so yeah, excellent.
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This sprite is incredible! Good job!
I, too, wish they'd use this Alternate Costume.
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Nice! I like his facial hair and his hair style.
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Looks great. I like the first one and second from last the most on that sheet.
Do we have any links out there for the other character costume schetches? I really wanted to get that book but I'm out of work right now
As soon as I have the money I plan on going to my Mitsuwa store and importing it
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All of Ryu's alt costumes kick ass in they're own way and excellent work here as well.
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WHOAH great minds think alike.
I guess I wasn't the only one who notice those lovely Alt costumes (THAT THEY DIDNT USE 
Me and a few DA artists pretty much got a boner to see that Ikeno's Alt costume designs resembled our ideas too.
This is one step ahead, I love that you did this. This is the one lat that stood out most for me. Even within the first week of the artbook page scan being released, people started doing fanart of this version.
I always imagined Ryu with a beard when he gets older. It just makes sense.
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A huge Ryu fan I see? Nice!
And yeah, I'm usually always up to date with SF related stuff especially in it's art department!
Yeah, I noticed a lot of people doing artwork of this version of Ryu around art places like Pixiv and stuff. Glad to see people wanna see a older Ryu like we do!!!
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Haha yes! Ever since SF4 was announced (before they said it was going to be a prequel to SF3) I thought that we'd see an older Ryu. I've been drawing older versions of Ryu and have maybe over 100 sketches.
Would love to see more of your Ryu stuff
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Exactly! I'm pretty sure if they do a SFV years from now, it'll be a SFIII sequel. Hopefully by then, they have and older Ryu and company! 
And thanks! I'll try and make animations of this Ryu whenever I can.
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Yes please feel free to post up any alternate sketches of Ryu you had. I live for that kind of stuff, especially when the fan knows where the character is coming from.
Aha yes it will be very "Cheap" if Capcom makes SF5 another game between SF2 and SF3. Be bold and move ahead!
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Sure thing man! I don't draw much nowadays but I do make animations here and there and since your a fellow Ryu fan, I'ma show you a really really early and unfinished animation. Basically it's Ryu doing an EX Gou Hadoken like Gouken....though the animation is a slightly different from Gouken. Probably add a regular Hadoken in there too haha.
[link]
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Wow it looks more forceful than Gouken's. The way he pushes into it. Very nice! I love this kind of stuff. Anything you want to show me, I'm always good to see that stuff. It sucks when great work goes un-appreciated.
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Yeah, I tried to make it seem more powerful! And sure thing since Ryu is my favorite character ever, I'll try and make it as best as I can! It's nice having a fellow Ryu fan to talk with lol.
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Yes! For sure. I'm definitely sure we're some sort of Ryu freaks. I sent something to Capcom's fan page. So hopefully they'll post it. I'll let you know what it is if it works out
Ryu is definitely my favorite too. I can't believe how he's affected my life and many others too. I hope his character never dies and fades.
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I remember that version, personally my favorite is Bancho Ryu, but manlier Ryu is cool too
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kinf of odd, remind me of that Samurai dude from Soul Calibur.
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Yeah, Mitsurugi. This version of Ryu is very old though, it was just never fully drawn till SSFIV came out.
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hmmm... this gives me an idea...
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Ryu has remained almost unchanged for the most part, and Capcom made some very appropriate looking alternate outfits for him-- this being one of them. I would've loved to seen a Ryu who looks as old as he really is (from what I heard and seen, Capcom removed all birth dates from their characters) and this definitely makes Ryu look like he has seen the world and been unkempt for so long.
And to think, Capcom gave him this Gangsta apparel for an alternate costume.
Oh well, I like this one better.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people wanna see older Ryu that takes place after SF3. And wow didn't know Capcom removed the birthdates for them...I still remember him being born on 1964, The Year of the Dragon. Dude should be 46 as of now and this or some of the other alts would fit him well.
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Yeah, Capcom removed the birth dates but then again-- that's Capcom for you since they're always retconning something from the storylines.
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I like the version where he wore those bandages all over his arms.
Also awesome -stubble
And his high school attire. Imagine this version of him fighting Batsu of Rival Schools
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He had so many cool alts right?
And lol, that HS alt is pretty awesome lolol!
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I could imagine stubble Ryu in SF5
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Man, wish I could buy the book, too bad it's not available in Indonesia
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You don't know any import shops over there? If not, you can always order online at places like Play-Asia or YesAsia. That's for the Japanese version though since it isn't released in English yet.
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My God they're so expensive... T_T
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how couldtn this be in the game it looks freaking awesome, it kinda has a future look that ghe might be like in the future... oh well me might get a chance in SF5
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Yeah, that's what I'm hoping since it'll most likely take place after SF3. I wanna see old Ryu!
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well if you have the pc version of SF4 you can modify some of the characters to have different costumes, i think i remember seeing something similar to this but cant be sure
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this is so much better than "Doo rag" Ryu that we're actually getting. Very nice pixel art.
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Said to say I cosplayed the Doo rag Ryu. Pretty much as a joke. I called him 50 Cent Ryu. I wonder what Capcom is smoking. It's very rare that they impress us wildly with the Alt Costumes. Only Ryu alt I liked was his shirt blasted off one which I think Capcom has drawn a few times. The "Geese Howard" samurai outfit wasn't samurai enough to me. "Oh look Ryu got new pajamas/hakamas"
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I honestly think this new set of alts is the best one yet. Ryu definitely got the shaft but you can't help but love the new Dudley. Of course I don't plan on paying for costumes (again) so I'll only get to use these new ones at tournaments/casuals.
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I think some characters got great alts in a bad set. Like Blarog got an amazing alt, but the same batch for other characters (Alt 2 I believe) looks weird.
It's usually hit or miss. The artbook alts are amazingly within character. Dunno why they got shafted
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Haha yeah, it's so weird that they left out a lot of alts that fit Ryu to the one we got now. Capcom makes weird decisions.
And thanks man!
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imo those are ALL badass and I'd like to see em as alternative costumes for real haha.
epic work man, me digs very much!
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I love the whole top and middle row. Bottom row has some good and bad ones though imo.
And thanks man!
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Woah man.
I had no idea about this look!
It looks so awesome!
I wish they used it :/
The Gouken and Akuma styled ones are also awesome.
And such a badass sprite!
CPS3 is indeed a pain to do, but man, does it look awesome when it's finished!
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Yeah, a lot of people haven't seen some of the SSFIV concept art yet. They have unused costumes on all the characters and many of them are pretty badass/awesome. I think Capcom and Udon is translating the Artbook right now and it'll be released in a few months I think....I want it now though lol.
And thanks man! You tried doing CPS3 styled sprites too? Yeah....they're such a pain hahaha.
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Wow. This is actually MORE badass than the original design. Usually, they just look really lame (well, not including Cody, who's original costume from Final Fight looks lame compared to the prison outfit he has in SF3)
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Yeah, I love Ryu's classic design! After all these years though, I'd like to see an older version of him similar to this. Hopefully in a few more years if SFV ever comes out, I hope they change him a bit.
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We can only hope. I'm personally getting sick of seeing the SAME exact designs over and over! Although, they (obviously) should offer the classic versions for a different outfit/costume.
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