Rayman for SSB4! Wishlist Roster Entry

Okay, next round of who should appear in the next smash brothers!

Andy’s personal biggest fave is Rayman!

Now normally we choose character additions we both really like but we decided to do a few that we both individually enjoy. Next week will be my choice and then we’ll go back to who we both agree should make the game.

That said, the header splash was created by me with a redraw of Andy’s original Rayman art, found here: geneticdestiny.deviantart.com/…

To be fair, his is waaaay better in the original version.

Anyway, onto the collabo!

I went with a totally new style for the piece. I mean, for me anyway, I’ve seen art like this every once in a while and I thought this piece was the best time to implement this style. Andy’s line art of Rayman looked content and just…ready to lift off the page. I took it one step further by redrawing the outlines and having his eyes closed (originally they are kept open). I then added shadows around the bits of his body to give some spatial depth and event manipulated around the chest area where the light is shining with the blur tool. I painted Rayman with flat colors first, and made a duplicate layer where I used both light and shadow tools (even after all these years I don’t know their names…the Burner? whatever haha) to add a nice pop.

I am very happy with the end result and I hope you do too, Andy! I really had fun with this one and actually so far this is the first time I’ve kept your linework nearly the same as you sent it to me (bar the eyes, d’oh! but i think it is a better decision to close them for effect! XD) .