Here is an assignment I did while at the beginning stages of learning Illustrator (and still have a looong way to go). The idea was to create 5 "icons" meshing two separate themes together. As you can see, I chose to do animals and Street Fighter ^_^.

My initial character designs, very weird looking. And trashed the Dhalsim idea:
Changed them to be a bit cuddlier:
Honda hog sketch:
Blanka sketch: