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Been feeling very cyberpunk lately so while my PC was down I got into Revolution Software's excellent point-and-click adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, predecessor to the Broken Sword games. Enjoyed it immensely - colorful characters, engaging plot with nice backgrounds and voice acting (although the music did grate at times) plus some nifty Dave Gibbons artwork. Its freeware now and can be downloaded from the ScummVM website (which you'll need to play it) so I recommend giving it a try.

Anyway the character sprites in the game are very lo-res so I decided to challenge myself by drawing some of the major characters in more detail. Its a fun exercise taking the significant traits of the sprites and trying to incorporate them into a detailed portrait - with the exception of Foster who I had more reference thanks to the aforementioned Gibbons artwork.

From left to right:
Robert Foster, protagonist and stranger to futuristic Union City.
Gilbert Lamb, pompous misogynist and supervisor of the local pipe factory.
and Anita, put-upon employee of Lamb and vital ally to Foster's quest.

Will probably do another of these with a few more characters from the game.

Description
Been feeling very cyberpunk lately so while my PC was down I got into Revolution Software's excellent point-and-click adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, predecessor to the Broken Sword games. Enjoyed it immensely - colorful characters, engaging plot with nice backgrounds and voice acting (although the music did grate at times) plus some nifty Dave Gibbons artwork. Its freeware now and can be downloaded from the ScummVM website (which you'll need to play it) so I recommend giving it a try.

Anyway the character sprites in the game are very lo-res so I decided to challenge myself by drawing some of the major characters in more detail. Its a fun exercise taking the significant traits of the sprites and trying to incorporate them into a detailed portrait - with the exception of Foster who I had more reference thanks to the aforementioned Gibbons artwork.

From left to right:
Robert Foster, protagonist and stranger to futuristic Union City.
Gilbert Lamb, pompous misogynist and supervisor of the local pipe factory.
and Anita, put-upon employee of Lamb and vital ally to Foster's quest.

Will probably do another of these with a few more characters from the game.