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Wasteland 2 Portrait Pack

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I stole Wasteland for the Commodore 64 back in 1989, copying it from a friend who in turn copied it from another friend who legitimately purchased it. In my defense, I was eleven years old, it was the eighties, and from Wall Street to the Commodore 64, heartless self-interested theft was the ‘in thing’ (to this day, heartless self-interested theft remains very big with one of those two).

Electronic Arts would eventually get money out of me for Wasteland, as it was one of the first games I purchased once I owned a PC; it’s been on every hard drive I’ve owned since then. Needless to say, I’m very much looking forward to Wasteland 2, and painted this portrait pack over the past couple weeks for it.

My initial plan was to only paint sci-fi/post-apocalyptic/pop rock characters from 80s culture, as it was around the time I started playing Wasteland that I also got into The Terminator, Aliens, Mad Max, etc. Then I thought to myself, ‘Well, I’ll also draw that guy from the end of the The Road.’

Then I started drawing Joan Jett, as she’s 70s/80s and as most of the reference material out there for women with guns is flat out male fantasy absurd cheesy stupidity; in the middle of drawing Joan Jett, my girlfriend asked me why I was drawing Kristen Stewart. I said I wasn’t drawing Kristen Stewart, I was drawing Joan Jett. My girlfriend informed me Kristen Stewart played Joan Jett in some film, and I actually was referencing a picture from that.

I learned something at that moment – apparently I swear the way you’d imagine Kelsey Grammar swearing. Basically a pause… and then coming out as if all one word: “OhForFucksSake!”

So at that moment the plan I set for myself went out the window. Referenced we have Michael Biehn as Hicks in Aliens, Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, a heavily modified Mel Gibson as I didn’t really feel like staying true to that maniac, Kristen Stewart, Summer Glau, Guy Pierce, Alice Braga in Predators, David James (who was an absolute bastard in District 9 but in real life is apparently quite a nice guy – guess that’s why it’s called acting), Orson Welles (if you played the original Wasteland you’ll understand, though I referenced The Third Man instead of Citizen Kane), Charlton Heston from The Omega Man (go check out Jim Carrey on Funny or Die with his ‘tribute’ to Heston – AWESOME), and Lemmy Kilmister.

The suit of power armor is just a sketch, I was thinking of what the Pseudo Chitin Armor might look like; didn’t reference anything for it. Two of the female portraits are referenced from mjranum stock: mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/a… and mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/a…

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256x256 is the resolution.