IceWind Dale - Female Portraits

kiwidoc

I'd like a bit of help please. My memory is really quite dodgy, and I cannot reliably remember which of these portraits is from IWD, and which from IWD2. I can't find any place that distinguishes between the two, and I don't really have space on my hard drives to load both games just to find out.



I've tried to hunt them on the net - and I'm heartily sick of looking at utterly nauseating pics of Justin "Sweet" Beiber rather than glorious art by Justin Sweet. Does it make me evil because I SOOO want to kick the little *expletive deleted* up the arse?

Back on topic, if anyone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.

CamDawg

All three are IWD.

kiwidoc

@CamDawg - many thanks. That means they are all Justin Sweet pics

Sirielle

@kiwidoc Not all portrais were by Justin Sweet, he was head of the art team if I remember correctly. Check posts by Jason Manley at Conceptart.org forum, where he talks about the work in BIS:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/159149-Icewind-Dale-artwork?s=5dcd5157d79ca50c1c63185c6d5dadf7&p=2279921#post2279921
From his posts it looks like the art team guys were Android Jones, Justin Sweet, Kevin Llewellyn, Vance Kovacs and John Dickenson.

Read more: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/159149-Icewind-Dale-artwork#ixzz57xsxMhJv

kiwidoc said:

I've tried to hunt them on the net - and I'm heartily sick of looking at utterly nauseating pics of Justin "Sweet" Beiber rather than glorious art by Justin Sweet. Does it make me evil because I SOOO want to kick the little *expletive deleted* up the arse?

I am not sure about the side ones, but the middle one is by Jason Manley. If anyone wants it in a higher res, I posted it here:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/957548#Comment_957548

The portrait Jason Manley was describing there - I see someone has already posted about it here:

JuliusBorisov said:

I've just found this:

Jason Manley said:

that male human fighter image..the big one...was done on a pentium two single 233mhz machine with a tnt1 video card (sixteen megs I think). I couldnt use brushes larger than five mm in diameter without it chugging, thus all the cross hatching...did that image almost four feet tall and it was a major pain. Painter four.

regarding this picture:



from here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/159149-Icewind-Dale-artwork

So...

IWD portraits... Made on 233mhz machine nearly 15 years ago. Still give the creeps.

LadyRhian

This Justin Sweet? https://www.artstation.com/jsweet

Also: https://www.iamag.co/the-art-of-justin-sweet/

And this: http://linesandcolors.com/2011/11/08/justin-sweet/

It helps to look up "Justin Sweet Artist".

@Sirielle

Permidion_Stark

I have always loved Justin Sweet's portraits for IWD but I just checked out the sites provided by @LadyRhian and I am really struck by what a brilliant artist he is. He is obviously influenced by Frank Frazetta (another of my favourites) but his paintings have a darker, gothic edge that can make them quite disturbing. The painting of the wizard kneeling before the huge, ghostly apparitions is quite stunning.

fluke13

Don't worry about the Justin Beiber comment... normally it wouldn't be cool to make personal attacks, but after Zoolander 2, it's now universally accepted and agreed (including by JB), that him being attacked is highly entertaining.