TSE-2 Sketchbooks

[Mark Pay]

Yesterday I was sorting out my sketchbooks from the last decade, wincing and smiling at a lot of my terrible old doodles, and I came across the small pile with my TSE-2 sketch work.
I'm not much of a concept artist. I rarely do more than scratch out some quick sketches as guidelines. A lot of it was junk, given that the earliest is now five years old. Some of the first few sketches are wierd. Some of them made me smile though, and I thought I'd share them. The originals are in very faint pencils, and my attempts to increase the contrast have not been entirely successful.


Chibi-Enshadu. For some reason I had decided to draw the cast in coloured pencils:



Early Clay 13 concept. The final version was cuter and easier to animate:



Concept sketch for Denever:



Concept sketch for Ionae:



Longreach originally had a rather detailed plan. It means little in the context of the final game, but it was nice to have around anyway:



Team Angry takes offense at something! Sadly not available in-game:



Finally, I was going to do '5-years-later' style portraits for the credits, in a similar manner to the original game. With time running short and the ending becoming more ambiguous, I decided not to complete them. I kind of liked this sketch of more mellow Ionae though. It seemed like a nice end for her.

[Tiavals]

Shame you didn't have time to add those 5-years later drawings to the game ending, would've been quite nice I'd imagine. And a short story about their lives after that as well.

But I can see it wouldn't be too appropiate for at least 2 characters due to their endings. I'm sure you know which two, without spoiling anything if someone who hasn't played the game reads this.