I Don't Hate You

I've gotten into Portal something fierce. I'm still stuck somewhere in Level 18, but I can say this...the turrets are so very cute. Especially when they go "I don't blame you" after you've knocked one over and it's dying.

I've seen a few drawings to this effect already on DA, and decided I wanted to do a nice full-color digipainting. This is something of a 15-20 minute speedpaint that went very well for something I just basically slapped together in a fit of Portal-crazed boredom.

Anyways, I died rather close to an active one, and got a very good look at its eye. It's got the red beam coming out of a teeny black pupil amid a red glowing iris. That just screamed for an anime-style "googly-eyed" look.

So there you go. Another visual reason to feel bad about hurting a turret.

Photoshop CS2 with Wacom Intuos2 6x8.