Skill Icons | W Mod

I received another C0mmíssíon to make icons for a Risk of Rain 2 mod.
The goal of these skill icons were that they should be in a similar style to the icons of the base characters in Risk of Rain 2, while still being identifiable as Wario.

For some of the icons I started by upscaling pre-existing sprites and then tweaking their shapes a bit, before painting over them. Since the icons will be displayed fairly small in-game it was important to make them read well at smaller sizes.

The final versions of the icons. Lined up side-by-side.

Breakdown of the icon for the Primary skill.
I tried out various different styles for the FX, and the final one is the one that the client preferred.

Breakdown of the icon for the spin skill.
The sprite I started with was actually kit-bashed from a bunch of different sprites.
Midway through I got told to change the pose.

Breakdown of the icon for the throw skill.
After seeing the first draft the client wanted the ability to show after the throwing happens. So this one was re-designed from scratch.

Reference sheet used for the project containing both icons from RoR2 and relevant images of Wario.
These images are official media owned by their respective game companies.