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Alternate NPC and PC portraits... just because! :P

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  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    edited November 2013
    @Kamigoroshi

    Looks perfect! Can't wait to try in game. Many thanks!!
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  • Syntia13Syntia13 Member Posts: 514
    @Isandir Whoa, man, did you completely redraw it? The difference is stunning.
  • vierraevierrae Member Posts: 103
    @Isandir wow, it's so much better than the first version. You are awesome!
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Isandir said:

    Having already remade a few of my first portraits, I was looking at those I made for Dark Side of the Sword Coast and was completely unsatisfied. Next project decided...

    I'll probably be working on these for a while if the first one is any indication. Bardo's base image lacked contrast (which was why he's so pasty in the first version), and I had to start over four times before I got it right. The final result blends in well with the default BG portraits, and I think it's a vast improvement over the first one I had made. Here are the old and new versions side-by-side:

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    MAN do I love this. Need to use it for a halfling. I really, REALLY wish their was a Mazzy romance mod.
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Meepichi said:

    Every time I hear Kivan I think of Clint Eastwood, so I whipped up this alternate pic for him. :)
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    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH me likey
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Foggy said:

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    imageimageimage by MiLeah

    My next monk for sure!
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164

    Now, there's this stunning Pisha portrait drawn by Sunradio over at deviantart. I'm quite fond of this piece of fine art, if only it's a tad to bright for my taste. So I did some colour arrangements just for the heck of it and liked the end results. While I do think meeting an Mulan/Chultan vamp is rather unlikely, these portraits might still be of some use to some. ;)

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    I KNEW MILEY CYRUS WAS CHAOTIC EVIL
  • meaglothmeagloth Member Posts: 3,806
    @duroth image
    Is this any good?
    I by no means have the skill of some of the people around here.
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    meagloth said:

    @duroth image
    Is this any good?
    I by no means have the skill of some of the people around here.

    Sure it's good. It doesn't quite match the BG artwork, which personally I'm a crazy stickler for. But that's quite an engaging Elven maiden you've whipped up there.
  • IsandirIsandir Member Posts: 458
    Thanks for the comments, everyone. I've been working at improving the method I use to "Baldurize" images, and I think I'm getting closer to a consistent result.

    @Syntia13: Rather than try to paint over the first version I had made, I used the base image again. As I had mentioned, the natural contrast was low and too dark on one side when editing, so it took a few tries before I was happy with the way it looked:

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  • DurothDuroth Member Posts: 17
    @Meagloth thanks.
  • vierraevierrae Member Posts: 103



    MAN do I love this. Need to use it for a halfling. I really, REALLY wish their was a Mazzy romance mod.

    As far as I know, there is such mod
  • meaglothmeagloth Member Posts: 3,806
    marceror said:

    meagloth said:

    @duroth image
    Is this any good?
    I by no means have the skill of some of the people around here.

    Sure it's good. It doesn't quite match the BG artwork, which personally I'm a crazy stickler for. But that's quite an engaging Elven maiden you've whipped up there.
    While I ever apceciate the compliment, I did not draw this myself. I had merely changed the eye color for@duroth. I have had some other posts around here that I'm not do proud of. I think I'm getting a little better now. (Better than I was now than when I was worse than I am now:)
  • jackjackjackjack Member Posts: 3,251
    Okay, I have another request for you portrait wizards, (absolutely amazing work in this thread!), if anyone has the time. There's a potato chip that could be something else, and the background would have to be different. Obviously the shirt and the tie have to be changed to something else; robes, armor, etc. I know it's a lot of work, but if anybody would like to take a crack at it, you'd have my thanks.

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  • HeindrichHeindrich Member, Moderator Posts: 2,959
    @Isandir
    Omg ur work is absolutely amazing!
  • IsandirIsandir Member Posts: 458
    Syntia13 said:

    @Isandir ...please excuse me while I drool all over that armor. How did you get this amount of detail?

    I tend to use real armor for most of the images I make. The hard part is actually getting rid of details while still making it appear to fit with the rest of the image.

    You had mentioned the hair in one of the other portraits. As to how I learned to do it that way...well...I was trying to copy one of your pictures!
  • AstafasAstafas Member Posts: 448
    @Isandir, I would be very interested in a tutorial!! :-) You clearly have several tricks and skills I lack.
  • FoggyFoggy Member Posts: 297
    edited December 2013
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  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    Isandir said:



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    Maybe it's just me (it often is, LOL), but I think this picture (especially the "updated" version) would be ideal for Khalid. I've always felt Khalid's current portrait looks way to "fierce" for a guy who gets morale failure from a mosquito bite. Your picture very conveniently has elfish ears and the same reddish-brown hair as Khalid.
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    vierrae said:



    MAN do I love this. Need to use it for a halfling. I really, REALLY wish their was a Mazzy romance mod.

    As far as I know, there is such mod
    where where where? want want want.
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    Isandir said:



    Here's my attempt, though she doesn't look terribly evil in my version. Of course, the light background doesn't help either. (EDIT: I put a better version in my folder on the Dropbox account TiaxRulesAll made. It doesn't have the glow effect on the bottom edges.)

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    @Isandir For some reason, I can't find the edited version of this pic in the Dropbox account - is it still there? Would you be able to upload the updated version into this thread?

  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Syntia13 said:

    Hey guys, me again. About the requests, direct and indirect:

    @deathvvv and @DarkDogg - I noticed that I messed up the hair/armor border on the Blond Hero portrait. I corrected that, look below to the enclosed files for the modified versions.

    @SharGuidesMyHand About the portrait of the lady with a wand/knife - sure, I have versions with a free hand. Look below to the enclosed files for them. About the pic you posted - I realize you didn't actually ask for anything regarding this one, but it looked so flat I couldn't help myself, I had to add some shadows to it. About the archer, here she is - both plain and in Kivan tattoo. :)
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    Deherianna you have a new look!
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164

    These pics are used for some mod character, but I think they would make a spot-on Xan (especially the "younger" looking pic on the left).

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    KILL IT WITH FIRE B4 IT SPARKLES
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164

    Generic Man mixed with Keldorn to produce an 'older' generic man.

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    I always use that "Generic Man" for my warriors... but this pic is EXCELLENT since when I played The Black Pits in BG1ee I made an inquisitor Keldorn with this picture and pretended it was one of the adventures from his youth. He had slightly higher dex and slightly lower wisdom.
    Also made a younger Gorion and Hrothgar from Icewind Dale (Forgotten Realms timeline be damned)
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