Know Thy Selfie (Updated with NEW Portraits!)
Traycor
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Hadn't made a digital painting in a while so I grabbed the @BillyYank selfie from the milestone thread and baldurized it. Enjoy!
Updated with the pics of @bleusteel (for full size file, see post below)
Update from the @rorikon selfie. See post below for full size file. Enjoy!
Updated with the pics of @bleusteel (for full size file, see post below)
Update from the @rorikon selfie. See post below for full size file. Enjoy!
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I'm thinking Paladin, maybe Inquisitor.
Planning on doing any more?
Edit: well, of course, since its your portrait, it is your call to decide which kind of character it portraits best.
But the man _i am_ seeing here, is someone who would still like to believe that obeying the law is the right thing and teaches his children in this spirit. But he also had experiences in his life, that forces him *know* otherwise.
I see a struggling man, who would love that those values he believes in, would be actuallly the law. But he knows, they are not.
So... Neutral good Wizard Slayer i'd say is his best match
Maybe the expression "fallen paladin" rang the wrong bell or it is simply the wrong expression. What i tried to convey is, that this person knows very well, from own experience, that just obeying some law and executing it, does not mean you are doing a *good deed* in the end.
So, in my mind i'd actually picture him as that guy, who others of his former order believes to follow some heresy, having doubts of the righteousness of their ways.
Not because some evil spirit got the better of him or he choose to follow the promises of some demon, but simply he experienced that what he for years believed in was, in the end, nothing more than an illusion.
As you say, a person still strong and determined, but with the knowledge and wisdom, that his view of how to live ones live is not codified in law and that it actually can not be codified.
We all interpret art through our own perceptions. You see a lawful good warrior drifting toward neutral good, I see lawful good drifting toward lawful neutral. To put it another way, my perception of the fellow in the painting* is the one sent to hunt down your perception of the fellow in the painting.
*A persona quite different from the fellow in the photograph.
I think the fact that we can both read such things in this portrait is a testament to @Traycor 's skill.
That was one of the most thoughtful comments I've ever read on the interwebz. Indeed it was.
+2 to your wisdom score at least
Yes, i can now see how he might fit the role you imagine him to play. It just begs the question at which point in his adventures Guilliem d'Penn does Fall from Grace and his alignment switches from "lawful good" (required by "the rules" for being Inquistor) to lawful neutral. (Note i am also quite fine with defining his alignment as lawful neutral).
But what i can not see in this character portrait, is the real conviction any more, that he is always on the right side no matter what (and is this not something which a *real* Paladin *must* feel all the time?)
So good :O! love it
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/41704/custom-pc-npc-portraits/p1
Congrats @bleusteel ! Enjoy!
Looks great... BTW do you take commissions? Asking for a friend.
I did the one more of @bleusteel but that's it.
And here's what an earlier draft was looking like: