1UP's Charity Sketch Auction Gallery

Over the course of September and October, I think the rest of the 1UP team started to hate me for making them carry sketchbooks -- to the Penny Arcade Expo, Tokyo Game Show, developer offices, etc. The goal was to collect as many pen and pencil sketches as we could from people in the game industry.

We left the content up to them, and said we would auction off 100% of the profits for Red Cross disaster relief -- in part to help victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, covered in our feature How Japan's Earthquake Changed its Developers. The results originally appeared in the final issue of 1UP's print magazine, and now it's time to put the gallery online and kick off the auction.

So click on any of the images below to see full-size versions, and if you're interested in owning the art, click the link at the bottom of each batch to bid on the seven bundles on eBay.

Shooter Bundle

Two BioShock Infinite sketches from Irrational Games' Ben Lo and Robb Waters, Borderlands' Moxxi from Gearbox's Scott Kester, five Gears of War 3 images from Epic Games' Chris Wells and Demond Rogers, and Halo's Master Chief from 343's Frank O'Connor...

Click here to see the above artwork listed on eBay.

Action and Fighting Bundle

Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa from Team Ninja's Masahiro Nose, Darksiders' Death from Vigil's Joe Madueira, Soul Calibur V's Natsu and Ivy from Project Soul's Takuji Kawano (signed by game director Daishi Odashima and producer Hisaharu Tago), and Tekken's Kuma from Tekken Project's Kazuhiro Harada...

Click here to see the above artwork listed on eBay.

Cute and Cuddly Bundle

Three Disney sketches from Junction Point's Shawn Melchor and Scott McSorley, Crash Bandicoot holding an angry bird from Big Red Button's Bob Rafei (who was the original Crash artist at Naughty Dog), Lumines: Electronic Symphony collage from Q Entertainment's Takashi Ishihara, and Mario from Twisted Pixel's Jay Stuckwisch... [Note: Crash Bandicoot is a signed digital print.]