Andrea Wicklund
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Andrea Wicklund is an illustrator who has been working at Valve since December 2006.[1] She currently lives in Seattle.[2]
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[edit] Biography
Wicklund has a BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art of San Francisco,[2], which she attended from 1999 to 2003.[1]
She made several pieces of concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three, posted on her Picasa account (now deleted) in March 2008. They were discovered by a source from ValveTime.net in June 2012. The images include several outfit variants for Alyx Vance (one with her wearing her father's jacket), several outfit variants of what may be Arctic Rebels, several variants of the Mil Mi-8 crashed into the ice (each including a facility in the background), and several images of Xen, including what me be a creature, islands, and a Combine Advisor cornering someone.[3][4][5]
She made the drawings made by Doug Rattmann seen Portal 2.[6] She returned for Portal 2: Lab Rat, of which she drew the main story, while Michael Avon Oeming drew the flashback scenes. Lab Rat also reincorporates her Rattmann drawings.
Her right hand was also used for the hand featured on the cover of Left 4 Dead.[7]
She makes art for other various companies, and has been showing her art in exhibitions since 2003.[2]
[edit] Complete gameography
- Portal (2007)
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
- Left 4 Dead (2008)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
- Alien Swarm (2010)
- Portal 2 (2011)
[edit] Gallery
[edit] Half-Life 2: Episode Three
[edit] Portal 2
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Andrea Wicklund on LinkedIn
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Official website
- ↑ Episode Three concept art album at Andrea Wicklund's Picasa (deleted)
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Concept Art at ValveTime.net
- ↑
HL2: Episode Three Concept Art Leaked? at LambdaGeneration
- ↑ Portal 2 Collector's Edition Guide
- ↑ Rules of Thumb at the Left 4 Dead Blog