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This set of illustrations is related to this character , one of a series of illustrations produced in August of 2007 for the video game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, from Hothead Games and Penny Arcade (subcontracted through Imaginary Friends Studios ). Check out my most recent Journal entry for more details.

So for about a half-dozen or so of the portraits I was assigned, I was also instructed to provide a series of expressions, I presume for use in dialogue cutscenes. Each of these characters had five variations on the basic portrait for a total of six, and each was the same: Talking, Happy, Angry, Suspicious, Suprised (not necessarily in that order).

It was extra fun coming up with the variants for this character, because I was low on reference to begin with, but I think I did okay. It's worth mentioning that these portraits were adjusted slightly at some point after I turned them in... instead of laying on his back, he appears in the game to be sitting up and his tail is included as an expressive indicator (ultimately much better than the way I drew him, so I've got no complaints). So far as I was able to tell, though, only his body was changed, and the expressions remain the same.

Drawn in Photoshop CS2 using an Intuos 9x12 tablet. And of course, all characters and their designs are © Penny Arcade/Hothead Games.

Description
This set of illustrations is related to this character , one of a series of illustrations produced in August of 2007 for the video game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, from Hothead Games and Penny Arcade (subcontracted through Imaginary Friends Studios ). Check out my most recent Journal entry for more details.

So for about a half-dozen or so of the portraits I was assigned, I was also instructed to provide a series of expressions, I presume for use in dialogue cutscenes. Each of these characters had five variations on the basic portrait for a total of six, and each was the same: Talking, Happy, Angry, Suspicious, Suprised (not necessarily in that order).

It was extra fun coming up with the variants for this character, because I was low on reference to begin with, but I think I did okay. It's worth mentioning that these portraits were adjusted slightly at some point after I turned them in... instead of laying on his back, he appears in the game to be sitting up and his tail is included as an expressive indicator (ultimately much better than the way I drew him, so I've got no complaints). So far as I was able to tell, though, only his body was changed, and the expressions remain the same.

Drawn in Photoshop CS2 using an Intuos 9x12 tablet. And of course, all characters and their designs are © Penny Arcade/Hothead Games.