
Anyhow, I played around with different poses and eventually settled on one that I thought would've worked best. After I got the figures down, I took some tracing vellum and played around with different styles of inking - at this point I wasn't sure how I'd color it, traditional or digital. In the end, I decided to go digital, as it was quicker and I also wanted to try out some stuff in photoshop.

While I was working out the details of their boxing trunks and stuff, I was also trying to figure out background and how detailed I wanted it. A few years ago I did a similar theme in charcoal - but the details were real limited and it didn't have the sense of authenticity I was looking for with this one. The perspective and everything was all off - didn't want to make the same mistakes:

In the end, I went with some banners and shit to make make the surrounds a bit more authentic. I looked for photos of the interior of Lumpini Stadium, but didn't find anything that I could've used, so I just made up the backdrop from a mix of references. The writing I looked up and had a friend double check to make sure I wasn't completely off. I also added the IBerry ice cream franchise logo as well as the Vespa logo (in Thai).
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it - I may do another along the same lines, but nothing really planned yet. Need inspiration!
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it - I may do another along the same lines, but nothing really planned yet. Need inspiration!