AKA The Lost Sandstorm Character. I described Sandstorm in an earlier artwork, but I'll reinterate it here in brief.

Sandstorm was an original fic collab idea thought up by a friend called Victor on the Tekken Zaibatsu (TZ) forums. To lighten the writing load, and bring in some new ideas and characters into the story, he made a thread in TZ's Fanfic forums for writers to volunteer to take part. Basically, it's an RP story featuring characters thought up by Victor, me, Cyndie ( ), Nidhi and James.

We each had a character to represent ourselves, which grew from being Mary-Sues into something rather more active and interesting. Nidhi and Cyndie in particular have taken inspiration from this story, which since February 2002, when Vic made that thread, still continues to inspire them.

But James, who was much older- in university when the rest of us were crawling out from high school, seemed to have disappeared to bigger and brighter things much later. Even in the story, his Adikkt character had different motives and verged towards a different denouement, so once James left, his character seemed to fade out from later re-imaginings of the Sandstorm tale (name changes, etc).

Basically, the Adikkt is a cyborg- a military experiment gone wrong- suffering from amnesia and mental trauma that he can only keep at bay with medicinal drugs and marijuana- hence 'Adikkt'. His left eye is robotic ala Batou from Ghost In The Shell, utilising night vision and heat vision sensors. His brain is artificially enhanced, and his spine is artificial altogether, but the rest of his body is organic- controlled to become a military machine by his new brain (affects adrenaline and hormones as well as the general body functions). He joins Sandstorm to infiltrate a military technology lab to find out about his past and what happened to him.

In short, he's got Batou's eye and cybernetics, Universal Soldier's military use, Blade Runner Replicant's mechanical brain (implanted memories) and human features, and the Terminator's firearms and military capabilities.

It's been years since I saw the original Adikkt design, but the portrait is actually pretty similar to how the character was supposed to look. The only changes are that the short hair is a kind of neat cut rather than a short shave, and the robotic eye is on the left rather than the right.

The pencil sketching and shading was chosen over the previous Expressionist marker colours approach solely as a practice of my shading skills, or lack thereof depending on your opinion (and a playful boo at you if you think the latter ), but along the way I felt it adds to Adikkt's grimness, as well as to show that- in the story and out of it- he's an outsider.

Time Taken: 3 hours.
Materials Used: 4H, 3H, 2H, F, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B and 8B sketching pencils

EDIT: Made Adikkt more gaunt, older, and generally rougher. The upper fringe line is a scar, but I may shade that out later, and generally touch up the piece later digitally.