Okay now this has me really excited! Both Akuma and Ryu are my favourite characters and this Ryu will have to compliment the Akuma 1/3 so obviously it can't be an action pose. Now there are a couple I first thought of. The SFV cross arms and the SFII arms crossed. Both would look good, but I thought they would both hide too much of the sculpt so then I thought of these 2 poses or maybe even these 2 mixed with each other. I think it should have a similar base to Akuma so that they really do look like book ends. Jerry I really hope you give Ryu a real hachimaki and real gloves as well!
What game will this be based off? IV or V? Kind of hope it's V as he reminds me more of third strike Ryu who is my favourite looking Ryu. I hope you will record and post videos of you working on this bad boy. I'd really love to see that. For me it would make this piece more personal if you truly see it from start to finish. I would seriously watch you sculpt every single minute of this lol.
Anyway Jerry, let me know what you think of my suggestions!