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Viconia--black or blue?

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  • AlejandroAlejandro Member Posts: 201
    edited June 2012
    I didn't even notice that that was a hood in her BG2 portrait, the Miloch portrait makes that more obvious (although for a second I still wondered why her hair had a purple stripe in it).
    @Caruga

    Omg, thanks god I wasn't the only one. xD
  • TanthalasTanthalas Member Posts: 6,738
    You guys thought that Viconia had blonde hair? o.O
  • ElysElys Member Posts: 100
    @Tanthalas: The guys were probably not focusing on that part of her body.
  • carugacaruga Member Posts: 375
    @Tanthalas: The guys were probably not focusing on that part of her body.
    Yeah I was staring at her mole.
  • NWN_babaYagaNWN_babaYaga Member Posts: 732
    She is so sexy and stylish. And I like here camoflage like blue night color.
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    Drow tend to have a dark brown to blackish skin (abit like black people in real life) and white/silver-coloured hair. I have never known them to have other characteristics than these and I honestly don't find Viconia with light blue skin very appealing. I think a combination of both the BG 1 and BG 2 portrait is best, as the picture posted in the comments above mine shows.
  • WardWard Member Posts: 1,305
    Elys said:

    The guys were probably not focusing on that part of her body.

    What do you take me for?

    Excuse me while I go back to Baldur's Date.com to find a suitable Viconia impersonate to bring to bed.
  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    She should be as black as the night. Her paperdoll is. Most drow have black or grey skin.

    Period.
  • raclariuraclariu Member Posts: 56
    Classic one for nostalgia
  • CoM_SolaufeinCoM_Solaufein Member Posts: 2,607
    Blue
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    @Ward Baldur'sDate? LOL! "Find your Soulmate! Bhaalspawn and sexy drow our specialty!"
  • odeeodee Member Posts: 87
    @ward there's baldurs date.com ?? ... Gotta check this out .
  • NWN_babaYagaNWN_babaYaga Member Posts: 732
    edited August 2012
    definately blue. Night camouflage is always blue
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    Blue Drow remind me of Smurfs...
  • immagikmanimmagikman Member Posts: 664
    Wisp said:

    image

    Art/edit by Miloch.

    This is the one for sure.

  • DrugarDrugar Member Posts: 1,566
    Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.

    Or, you know, the portrait Immagikman posted.
  • DelvarianDelvarian Member Posts: 1,232
    Drugar said:

    Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.

    Or, you know, the portrait Immagikman posted.

    I say we start a petition to get this image as cannon. :)
  • MoomintrollMoomintroll Member Posts: 1,498
    edited August 2012
    I'm surprised Drow don't wear white more often, I imagine that would reduce their infrared signature.
    Post edited by Moomintroll on
  • purebredcornpurebredcorn Member Posts: 77
    edited August 2012
    Wisp said:

    image

    Art/edit by Miloch.


    Now this is more like it.
  • CommunardCommunard Member Posts: 556
    edited August 2012
    Drow are black. Does anyone know why they had her as blue in the original? It seems really weird.
  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    Communard said:

    Drow are black. Does anyone know why they had her as blue in the original? It seems really weird.

    Her paperdoll and sprite have always been black. It's only her BG2 portrait that was blue.

  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    Drow are black. Does anyone know why they had her as blue in the original? It seems really weird.
    I have no idea, but I have never seen a blue-skinned Drow before. It appears odd to me too. Blue Viconia reminds me of an alien, heh. :p
  • DelvarianDelvarian Member Posts: 1,232
    D&D artists and writers seem to have been confused about the actual look of the drow race for some time. I have seen many pics of them as black and blue, and I've read descriptions that have labeled them as both. I have always liked the more blackish skin, but meh.
  • NWN_babaYagaNWN_babaYaga Member Posts: 732
    edited August 2012
    oh man not a smurf blue I meant... realy hard to get that right? And black is not a real color at all... more an illusion
  • MoomintrollMoomintroll Member Posts: 1,498
    edited August 2012
    Trying to understand the mind of a fantasy artist; I think the standard reasoning would be, despite what anyone else might think (about the subject matter), that "they did it because they thought it was hot." Take for example, Boris Vallejo. (I wouldn't advise googling him if you're at work)
  • NWN_babaYagaNWN_babaYaga Member Posts: 732
    he made some hot curves...
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    edited August 2012
    caruga said:


    @Tanthalas: The guys were probably not focusing on that part of her body.
    Yeah I was staring at her mole.


    Moley Moley Moley... HUGE!!

    btw I thought she was blonde too...
  • FrozenDervishFrozenDervish Member Posts: 295
    Black
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Elys said:

    @Ward: There is. It's just she does not smile in the second portrait :p
    @Caruga: Yeah she should be black, but maybe drow suntan turns blue o.O

    image

    I'm getting a nuclear boner.

  • NWN_babaYagaNWN_babaYaga Member Posts: 732
    @ShapiroKeatsDarkMage thanks:) thats my new desktop;)
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