STALKER Half Life

t is an speed painting in Photoshop, it took me 45 minutes to do it with an Intuos 3. I´ve been inspired by the computer game Half Life 2, and by its Art Director Viktor Antonov vision the HL2 atmosphere. CRITICS ARE WELCOME.

HERE A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT AN STALKER IS... The product of extreme, brutal Combine engineering, stalkers are humans who have been experimented on by Combine scientists, had their higher brain functions severed, nano-devices embedded into their skin, and their bodies physically altered. Their limbs have been removed and replaced with mechanical extensions; most organs, excess fat, as well as muscle have also been removed and what appear to be metallic augmentations added to parts of their body. "Stalkers", the codename by which the Combine know them by, appear to be in constant pain, as their loud wheezing indicates. A stalker can't talk, and instead can only make beastly roars, most likely because its vocal cords, or perhaps entire larynx, has been removed, as the metallic hole in their throats suggests. The lack of higher mental functions would also prevent them from talking. For ease of maintenance and to bring a physical dependence on the Combine, the stalker's digestive tract has been removed, resulting in the stalkers surviving solely on a saline solution that the Combine provides