Glad you liked the art :D
Yes, everything was drawn in my sketchbook, photographed, and then masked out in Photoshop. Not the best artist, or photographer, or good with Photoshop, so this all took me quite a while as I had to manage the lighting, making sure the lines were dark enough to be visible, and also learn how on earth to cut out a section of an image in Photoshop.
I'm so sorry you ran into issues with the contact spawning in front of an enemy! I hope to fix this in tomorrow's update :)