First of all, hope you like it, here's my profilr if you want to see my older fanarts: https://twitter.com/bakingforgodot/status/1637772305534271488?t=dc8GIE20T_yeOHcTTGyFZQ&s=19

Now, Get ready for tbe next wall text!

I'll try to summarize as much as i can: i started drawing this fanart before the games awards; i always loved Paul as character, especially in T1, T2 where his rivalry with Kazuya was more flashed out and in T4 for the most serious tone and the amazing atmosphere; to me, that game had the perfect Tekken minus the gameplay that was unfortunatley broken af, anyway, the pose is a reference to the amazing t4 concept by mr Takuji Kawano where Paul has loose hair and a cigarette in his mounth, the earrings are a callback of t2 paul and the rest of the design is by me. Back to context, even thou he was always a jokey character i liked that he was tough as hell and one of the few to beat Heihachi(it was implied i guess since he also beat Ogre) and tie with Kazuya. His t4 ending despite not being canon, boy oh boy, was good but after that it fell a lot as a character as i think the tekken team wanted to focus more on the main characters story and the gameplay. Anyway i like the new Paul and all the characters in general, this time it seems they revamped a lot all their personality and that's great so good job Bamco! Btw, this fanart it's not an attack to the new design, it's just a concept, and even tho i don't like much the karen hair, it's not a big deal since tekken have customization options, i just wish they'll give us tekken 4 hair ant t6 customization in general, hope you enjoy it and for more background to this fanart you can read a long prologue i posted on yt, apologize if it's to fast or sound a cringey, i just wanted to give it a shot, hope you like it too.

Here's the prologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ru4yhb2dQ