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Did this for someone.
Claptrap from Borderlands, Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V, Dogmeat from Fallout 4, and Steve from Minecraft.
The title is from Borderlands, because that's the only game out of those that I've played to have any knowledge of from experience.

The vehicle was supposed to be a Kalahari from GTA V. I needed a roofless vehicle with room for 4 and that came up in image searches. I couldn't find a front view though, so I had to kinda make it up. I'm HORRIBLE at drawing vehicles even with proper reference, so there was no way that was going to come out decently. I'm not too bothered though since it's not the focus of the drawing.
I left the windows off since it would've covered the characters a bit.

The rest of the drawing came out really smoothly since I've been working on my speed and confidence a bit. Doing the final lines in ink is also so much more comfortable than pencil.
But, in that, I also got a little too careless in some parts in my aim to not dwell on things too long and ended up having to fix a few little things well after scanning the drawing since I didn't notice early enough.

Regardless, I finished this much quicker than I would've just a couple months or so ago. There are definitely problems in this picture and things I couldn't reasonably fix even digitally, but it was good experience.

One thing I couldn't fix is Claptrap's arm that's way too long. I think I was looking at the reference wrong and misjudging the relative length of it compared to the rest of his body. It didn't help that I can't even see his whole body in this drawing to judge proportions with it.

Speaking of his arm, the details on the lower half are totally messed up. Some parts were me misinterpreting the references (some of the cel-shading lines made me look at things wrong), but other parts I don't even KNOW how I got that from the reference pictures after looking at them again.

I didn't intend to draw Trevor's head so large. It just kinda came out when I started drawing. Maybe I subconsciously figured it would be better this way to make everyone larger on the page so they're more visible, without cutting anything off the page..?

I didn't do a rough layout of this picture. I just had an idea, figured out the center of the page to start drawing the vehicle, and went from there. I'm fortunate that nothing got cut off or had to be compromised from my idea to fit on the page, considering I did virtually no planning before sketching what would eventually be the final lines.

It was interesting colouring this. Every character was something different; Claptrap had a focus on the dirt on the body, Trevor had a focus on the rough skin and imperfections, Dogmeat had a focus on fur, and Steve had a focus on giant pixels. I actually did a minimal amount of my regular shading method on this because the textures on the different characters made up a lot of the picture already and I didn't feel like I had to do much else afterwards.

Steve was challenging. I didn't think I would colour in the pixels, but I didn't know what else to do to make him look accurate. So I just figured out how to do the pixel look and then used a reference of the Steve model to colour in the pixels exactly as they are on the game model.

Well, almost exactly. Since I was drawing it on paper and without proper measurements, I misjudged the length of his arms. They're about one "pixel" too long. So when I went to colour in the pixels, I had to find somewhere to stretch it by one pixel while I was trying to match the pixel placement of the game model.

Description
Did this for someone.
Claptrap from Borderlands, Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V, Dogmeat from Fallout 4, and Steve from Minecraft.
The title is from Borderlands, because that's the only game out of those that I've played to have any knowledge of from experience.

The vehicle was supposed to be a Kalahari from GTA V. I needed a roofless vehicle with room for 4 and that came up in image searches. I couldn't find a front view though, so I had to kinda make it up. I'm HORRIBLE at drawing vehicles even with proper reference, so there was no way that was going to come out decently. I'm not too bothered though since it's not the focus of the drawing.
I left the windows off since it would've covered the characters a bit.

The rest of the drawing came out really smoothly since I've been working on my speed and confidence a bit. Doing the final lines in ink is also so much more comfortable than pencil.
But, in that, I also got a little too careless in some parts in my aim to not dwell on things too long and ended up having to fix a few little things well after scanning the drawing since I didn't notice early enough.

Regardless, I finished this much quicker than I would've just a couple months or so ago. There are definitely problems in this picture and things I couldn't reasonably fix even digitally, but it was good experience.

One thing I couldn't fix is Claptrap's arm that's way too long. I think I was looking at the reference wrong and misjudging the relative length of it compared to the rest of his body. It didn't help that I can't even see his whole body in this drawing to judge proportions with it.

Speaking of his arm, the details on the lower half are totally messed up. Some parts were me misinterpreting the references (some of the cel-shading lines made me look at things wrong), but other parts I don't even KNOW how I got that from the reference pictures after looking at them again.

I didn't intend to draw Trevor's head so large. It just kinda came out when I started drawing. Maybe I subconsciously figured it would be better this way to make everyone larger on the page so they're more visible, without cutting anything off the page..?

I didn't do a rough layout of this picture. I just had an idea, figured out the center of the page to start drawing the vehicle, and went from there. I'm fortunate that nothing got cut off or had to be compromised from my idea to fit on the page, considering I did virtually no planning before sketching what would eventually be the final lines.

It was interesting colouring this. Every character was something different; Claptrap had a focus on the dirt on the body, Trevor had a focus on the rough skin and imperfections, Dogmeat had a focus on fur, and Steve had a focus on giant pixels. I actually did a minimal amount of my regular shading method on this because the textures on the different characters made up a lot of the picture already and I didn't feel like I had to do much else afterwards.

Steve was challenging. I didn't think I would colour in the pixels, but I didn't know what else to do to make him look accurate. So I just figured out how to do the pixel look and then used a reference of the Steve model to colour in the pixels exactly as they are on the game model.

Well, almost exactly. Since I was drawing it on paper and without proper measurements, I misjudged the length of his arms. They're about one "pixel" too long. So when I went to colour in the pixels, I had to find somewhere to stretch it by one pixel while I was trying to match the pixel placement of the game model.