Some of my favorite artists for portraits.
I have collected hundreds of portrait-worthy pictures over the years...far far too many to post all in one go. I'll try to add to this thread over time in a similar manner to LadyRhian's thread. In order to prevent blowing up people's mobile devices or internet, I'll try to limit actual pictures to the portrait format(420x660 BMP). The original full-sized art can, of course, be found on the artists' websites, which I will endeavor to provide information for.
My alltime favorite of all fantasy pictures has got to be "The Inner Noise" by Janaschi from deviantart. I originally found the picture on one of those wallpaper dump sites, and didn't discover the artist for several years after.
http://janaschi.deviantart.com/
Next up is Keunju Kim(aka Rabbiteyes). Her(?) style has a LOT of detail, and each character has it's own unique feel. The artwork can be found on Drawcrowd, deviantart, or her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rabbiteyes
It should be noted that this particular portrait has been edited. The original image has another character behind this one that I didn't want in the picture.
This is one I only recently stumbled across, originally on the drawcrowd website, although there's a deviantart website as well. Again, high detail and very unique character concept. Although this one is my favorite, Ber-yaourt has several other portrait-worthy pics over on http://ber-yaourt.deviantart.com/
Another recent discovery is...unfortunately in a language I don't speak. The artist gallery is under the name "c 王" over on Drawcrowd.com, which can be found here: http://drawcrowd.com/464147522/projects
One of my very favorite pieces, due to the realism and the style of the character, is done by Nykolai Aleksander. The character virtually oozes style and story. Her artwork can be found on either the facebooks(https://www.facebook.com/admemento) or http://www.kaifineart.com/2014/07/nykolai-aleksander.html
This has been one of my favorite 'badguy' pictures for some time now. Once again I found it originally on a random wallpaper website, and it took me a little bit of effort to track down the original artist, since google was not cooperating. However, it was definitely worth it. Hellstern on deviantart(http://hellstern.deviantart.com/) has quite a few very good character designs suitable for portraits, among other things.
More to come later! If there are any issues with the links or the pictures themselves, PLEASE let me know.
My alltime favorite of all fantasy pictures has got to be "The Inner Noise" by Janaschi from deviantart. I originally found the picture on one of those wallpaper dump sites, and didn't discover the artist for several years after.
http://janaschi.deviantart.com/
Next up is Keunju Kim(aka Rabbiteyes). Her(?) style has a LOT of detail, and each character has it's own unique feel. The artwork can be found on Drawcrowd, deviantart, or her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rabbiteyes
It should be noted that this particular portrait has been edited. The original image has another character behind this one that I didn't want in the picture.
This is one I only recently stumbled across, originally on the drawcrowd website, although there's a deviantart website as well. Again, high detail and very unique character concept. Although this one is my favorite, Ber-yaourt has several other portrait-worthy pics over on http://ber-yaourt.deviantart.com/
Another recent discovery is...unfortunately in a language I don't speak. The artist gallery is under the name "c 王" over on Drawcrowd.com, which can be found here: http://drawcrowd.com/464147522/projects
One of my very favorite pieces, due to the realism and the style of the character, is done by Nykolai Aleksander. The character virtually oozes style and story. Her artwork can be found on either the facebooks(https://www.facebook.com/admemento) or http://www.kaifineart.com/2014/07/nykolai-aleksander.html
This has been one of my favorite 'badguy' pictures for some time now. Once again I found it originally on a random wallpaper website, and it took me a little bit of effort to track down the original artist, since google was not cooperating. However, it was definitely worth it. Hellstern on deviantart(http://hellstern.deviantart.com/) has quite a few very good character designs suitable for portraits, among other things.
More to come later! If there are any issues with the links or the pictures themselves, PLEASE let me know.
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I'm not 100% certain on this next one, since the original artwork comes from pixiv, which is an artist site that's often in either japanese or korean(neither of which I speak). However, after quite a bit of time spent searching, I'm inclined to believe this is, in fact, the original artist, since all the work on the page appears to be in a similar style, and the watermark on the original matches the name the artist uses on the page.
Be advised that pixiv.net does not censor NSFW artwork quite as well as deviantart. While this particular artist doesn't appear to have any NSFW stuff on their front page, pixiv as a whole is fairly lax, and you may run across NSFW stuff if you browse carelessly.
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=165139
Next up is the incredible "the DURRRRIAN"(http://thedurrrrian.deviantart.com/gallery/), who is probably most commonly known for taking the Avengers and putting a medieval spin on them. While those pictures are ALL very good, there are many other fantasy related pictures as well. Although my personal favorite is still Widow:
As long as we're on the topic of pop-culture, some fantastic Crusader fan-art by Sun Haiyang(http://drawcrowd.com/shy). While this particular piece is phenomenal, he's got a crapton of other great artwork. You should check him out.
L PF from drawcrowd has a very unique style that I've come to really enjoy. I will only link directly to the image in question, as there is a single picture on his Drawcrowd front page that could be considered NSFW, and I don't want anyone to accidentally stumble into it.
http://drawcrowd.com/reason700/projects/mtq0mzezltctmtetmzy?pos=12
The final artist of this particular post is "seven 日月" from over on Drawcrowd(http://drawcrowd.com/1254660294/projects). while he only has a handful of pictures posted there, several of them are really quite good. I think his best one is the fan art of Kill la Kill, which is quite a bit better than almost anything I've seen from that show.
That's it for now. I think I've spent more time finding artwork than I have actually spent playing the game! xD
The next one I like is 'jaggudada' on deviantart. (http://jaggudada.deviantart.com/). Several portrait-worthy pictures, although this one is, IMHO, the best.
Another great artist is Qrumzsjem, again on deviantart(http://qrumzsjem.deviantart.com/) The level of detail on some of his pieces is incredible. Worth taking a look at the gallery due to several very good artworks.
Rob Shields is a relatively new find for me, but he's absolutely killing it with awesome artwork. http://www.robshields.net/