I much prefer this portrait included in BG2 (here slightly recropped bu me, to fit better in size) for Hexxat:
I don't know if it's a new PC portrait or made for some NPC late in the game that I haven't yet met?
Woah, for Hexxat you would use this? This looks like a female Rasaad, or maybe his sister. It's about as wrong for Hexxat as replacing Irenicus' portrait for Minsc would be, in my opinion.
I hate to point it out, but among other things, she's sort of got the wrong skin color.
@marceror, that would depend on the lightening/color tone (also an easy adjustment with EEKeeper, if you feel like it - I've done no such changes myself). For me, she's the perfect Hexxat since a couple of weeks. :-)
This isn't the modding forum, but the same rules apply. Modifying copyrighted images for use as portraits (and in particular the works of Enkida and AfroShero, who have explicitly prohibited it) is not allowed. No one's in trouble (yet), but please be mindful, and respect the work of the artists.
Are there any issues with us using these portraits in our own games? I hope not, as publishing such great BG portraits and then telling people not to use them is a bit like letting a recovering alcoholic go swimming in a pool of their preferred alcoholic beverage and expecting them not to get drunk.
This isn't the modding forum, but the same rules apply. Modifying copyrighted images for use as portraits (and in particular the works of Enkida and AfroShero, who have explicitly prohibited it) is not allowed. No one's in trouble (yet), but please be mindful, and respect the work of the artists.
Are there any issues with us using these portraits in our own games? I hope not, as publishing such great BG portraits and then telling people not to use them is a bit like letting a recovering alcoholic go swimming in a pool of their preferred alcoholic beverage and expecting them not to get drunk.
U can post and use their original portraits. But u need to credit the artist.
There are some beautiful portraits in this list!! I am going to share a few of my favorite creations, in case anyone else has similar taste to mine.
Using the Edea Portrait done by Kim Nguyen (Lyxia @ deviant art), and a picture of Angelina Jolie, I tried to make it a bit more 'baldurs gate' (as I play it). Result being my favorite Mage/sorceress portrait!
Real life and other hobbies have been intruding, so I'll have some catching up to do with the latest round of requests. It may take me a while, but I'll try to get to everything.
@Isandir: Great work on that one, as always And it totally feels like an elf/half-elf! Didnt quite understand what you meant though... In your eyes shes not finished just yet, or did you mean that it took you a while to finish her?
Both. Several elements in the portrait just didn't feel right as I was making it, so it took me substantially longer than most. I'm also still nitpicking at a few things that I may go back and change later.
@Foggy: That Vin Diesel portrait is indeed the one I used for my berserker! I loved that picture, and it was one of the only celebrity images I would use in the game.
@DarkDogg & @Kazi: No problem. I'll work on each of the requests that you made, though I'm not sure when I'll have them done. I'll also work on the portrait for @Cherudek unless someone beats me to it.
Is anyone here willing or even looking to make a portrait for a mod? I'm looking for, basically, a black (as in, African (or Calimshite, to be particular), not drow) half-elf with white hair wearing leather or chain mail (a ranger type). I've tried asking around at other Baldur's Gate sites, but I can't find anyone willing to bite.
Perhaps because I have no portrait to work with as a beginning state. I was thinking one of the three black portraits (two human, one halfling) from NWN would work as a base, but I'm unfortunately not good with 'what will make a good base or not' figuring. I'm writer, not an artist. Working from a celebrity of sorts would also be fine, as long as it doesn't look 'completely obvious that random celebrity took a walk through Faerun', or working from another photoshop base is great by me (or original art, or editing whatever- I dunno, whatever works). Or if anyone already has a portrait that would sort of fit in to this- please, show me or let me know.
I'd give you full credit in the readme of the mod, obviously, and in the forums. I'll be reading this thread, but if you're interested in maybe working on something, I'd like it if you PM'ed me if that wouldn't be too much trouble. Thanks to anyone who gives it some consideration.
@Kazi: Is this okay? I needed to revisit this one regardless, so some of the details are different from the versions you posted. I stuck to the canon description for the most part, which entailed dusky skin and white/silver hair. Along with the eye color, however, he leans a bit more toward the drow side of his heritage.
Edit: Since I updated this one, I might as well post the tweaked (for the last time) version of the other one as well.
Anyone know a good IPad app to use for baldurizing pics on the go?
Well, for actual creation of portraits ProCreate is the best app by far! I guess you cold just 'baldurize' photographs as well - just open photo you want and paint it over a new layer...
I'd do it myself, but I don't have iPad currently, all Android apps presently suck, and I hate to paint with the mouse instead of my fingers.
So I'm asking for help from this wondrous community:
In short - this dude Raymond Merrill Smullyan is the only person in the universe worthy of representing child of Bhall by portrait. Guy is magician, logician, mathematician, pianist, chess player and ideally perfect to be player's Mage in Baldur's Gate saga! Lots of his logic puzzles are implemented in the game itself via various community mods. I highly recommend reading his books for great inspiration in life...
I would be grateful if someone can baldurize and colorize his portrait for me: white hair (with few grey and dark ones), dark eyebrows, caucasian skin, red robes (major color scarlet or crimson or burgundy and minor color gold - something like Edwin), and bunch of ancient leather books in front of him
If someone would be kind enough to do this, I would return the favor to the community by providing detailed instructions on how to develop this character in game so that he becomes most powerful archmage the game mechanics allow - as he should be!
I had contacted @Twani regarding her request for a portrait for her NPC, Altan, and finished it a few days ago:
I highly recommend checking out her mod when she releases it. I also had the opportunity to edit the dialogue for her, and it is some of the best-written material I've seen outside of the original content.
@Cherudek: I've been working on your request, but I'm not satisfied with the results so far. Though the resolution of the image is a little on the low side, it had enough natural contrast to be usable. The only problem is that, as I edit it, the picture ends up looking a bit like it was modeled in 3D. I'll keep trying over the holidays and post it if I get better results.
@Tzar: Unfortunately, this is a case in which the resolution of the image is simply too low to serve as a base for a portrait. I also tried searching for alternate photos of Smullyan with no luck.
@Isandir it is cool beyond measure, thank you for sharing this piece! Been wondering, how do you manage to get that background glow on the edges of the figure? I think it's called "the reflected shadow"?
@vierrae: Thank you, though Twani deserves credit for providing a very clear description of what he wanted. It made it much easier to aim for a specific result.
One of the final steps I usually take in most of my portraits in Photoshop is recombining all of the character's layers (which are split right away at the beginning of the process) and adding an inner glow, with the color sampled from one of the lights in the background. By combining it with an inner shadow from one angle--based on the locations of the light sources you're picturing in your mind--it adds a nice 3D effect and also helps distinguish the character from the background.
@Isandir and how do you combine these lights with inner shadow? From the looks, it wasn't done manually, so, what Photoshop function do you use? Because even though I can draw something on the paper, this program is one big question for me
For those of you who are always asking for alt Neera pics, someone posted this about a year ago in one of the archived threads here:
Tis the one I use... it kinda annoyed me when her hair colour got changed to more resemble that of her original picture, what with the glow, so now I always have to EEKeeper her blonde >.<
Also, loving them alternate Viconia pictures there!
Aww, Isandir, thank you so much for the portrait and the compliments! People, I definitely recommend getting a portrait from Isandir if he can find the time. He filled my request exactly, even though I was all picky and stuff about it and asked for a ton. And look at the result! Pretty awesome, isn't it? Will fit perfect for a half-elf genasi.
@Isandir and how do you combine these lights with inner shadow? From the looks, it wasn't done manually, so, what Photoshop function do you use? Because even though I can draw something on the paper, this program is one big question for me
When you select one of your layers, right-click and select display blending options. Check the option for inner glow, and use the eye dropper to select a color from the background that makes sense. If I need to offset the glow on one side due to the natural (and artificial) lighting, I check inner shadow, and simply angle it and adjust the size to cover the glow. Depending on the angle of the lighting source, I often use the smudge or mixer brush tool to soften the edge once the layers are combined.
@Twani: Don't ask me why, but I had looked at your username the first time and just assumed it was a male name. No idea why...
This is a long shot but it seems some peoples requests are being taken up by some awesome people
I would really love if somebody could attempt to baldurize this
It's for a text based browser game and I'm trying to make custom portraits and possibly use them in BG as well. For these custom portraits to be allowed in the game you have to incorporate the stock portraits into the ones you submit as custom. I already made one out of Edwin's and Jon Irenicus' portrait but pasting a face onto another is basically the extent of my photoshopping skills. These are the ones I've done. I wish I was good enough to baldurize them from scratch
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THIS is what a worthy alternate Hexxat portrait looks like, again, in my humble opinion.
I am going to share a few of my favorite creations, in case anyone else has similar taste to mine.
Using the Edea Portrait done by Kim Nguyen (Lyxia @ deviant art), and a picture of Angelina Jolie, I tried to make it a bit more 'baldurs gate' (as I play it). Result being my favorite Mage/sorceress portrait!
A human druid is the character I have in mind. Thanks for considering it!
@Foggy: That Vin Diesel portrait is indeed the one I used for my berserker! I loved that picture, and it was one of the only celebrity images I would use in the game.
@DarkDogg & @Kazi: No problem. I'll work on each of the requests that you made, though I'm not sure when I'll have them done. I'll also work on the portrait for @Cherudek unless someone beats me to it.
Perhaps because I have no portrait to work with as a beginning state. I was thinking one of the three black portraits (two human, one halfling) from NWN would work as a base, but I'm unfortunately not good with 'what will make a good base or not' figuring. I'm writer, not an artist. Working from a celebrity of sorts would also be fine, as long as it doesn't look 'completely obvious that random celebrity took a walk through Faerun', or working from another photoshop base is great by me (or original art, or editing whatever- I dunno, whatever works). Or if anyone already has a portrait that would sort of fit in to this- please, show me or let me know.
I'd give you full credit in the readme of the mod, obviously, and in the forums. I'll be reading this thread, but if you're interested in maybe working on something, I'd like it if you PM'ed me if that wouldn't be too much trouble. Thanks to anyone who gives it some consideration.
Edit: Since I updated this one, I might as well post the tweaked (for the last time) version of the other one as well.
Model for reference :
I'd do it myself, but I don't have iPad currently, all Android apps presently suck, and I hate to paint with the mouse instead of my fingers.
So I'm asking for help from this wondrous community:
I need this pic baldurized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smullyan.jpeg
In short - this dude Raymond Merrill Smullyan is the only person in the universe worthy of representing child of Bhall by portrait. Guy is magician, logician, mathematician, pianist, chess player and ideally perfect to be player's Mage in Baldur's Gate saga! Lots of his logic puzzles are implemented in the game itself via various community mods. I highly recommend reading his books for great inspiration in life...
I would be grateful if someone can baldurize and colorize his portrait for me: white hair (with few grey and dark ones), dark eyebrows, caucasian skin, red robes (major color scarlet or crimson or burgundy and minor color gold - something like Edwin), and bunch of ancient leather books in front of him
If someone would be kind enough to do this, I would return the favor to the community by providing detailed instructions on how to develop this character in game so that he becomes most powerful archmage the game mechanics allow - as he should be!
Thank You
I highly recommend checking out her mod when she releases it. I also had the opportunity to edit the dialogue for her, and it is some of the best-written material I've seen outside of the original content.
@Cherudek: I've been working on your request, but I'm not satisfied with the results so far. Though the resolution of the image is a little on the low side, it had enough natural contrast to be usable. The only problem is that, as I edit it, the picture ends up looking a bit like it was modeled in 3D. I'll keep trying over the holidays and post it if I get better results.
@Tzar: Unfortunately, this is a case in which the resolution of the image is simply too low to serve as a base for a portrait. I also tried searching for alternate photos of Smullyan with no luck.
Been wondering, how do you manage to get that background glow on the edges of the figure? I think it's called "the reflected shadow"?
One of the final steps I usually take in most of my portraits in Photoshop is recombining all of the character's layers (which are split right away at the beginning of the process) and adding an inner glow, with the color sampled from one of the lights in the background. By combining it with an inner shadow from one angle--based on the locations of the light sources you're picturing in your mind--it adds a nice 3D effect and also helps distinguish the character from the background.
Ne ideas?
Also, loving them alternate Viconia pictures there!
(Though I am female. >.> XD)
@Twani: Don't ask me why, but I had looked at your username the first time and just assumed it was a male name. No idea why...
http://s020.radikal.ru/i713/1312/c7/4374eb2f85c2.jpg
Wow, this is Amazing! Merely 'liking' it seems woefully insufficient!
Wonderful work, it is awesome to see the improvement of artists on this thread. What a difference in one year, bring on 2014!
I would really love if somebody could attempt to baldurize this
It's for a text based browser game and I'm trying to make custom portraits and possibly use them in BG as well. For these custom portraits to be allowed in the game you have to incorporate the stock portraits into the ones you submit as custom. I already made one out of Edwin's and Jon Irenicus' portrait but pasting a face onto another is basically the extent of my photoshopping skills. These are the ones I've done. I wish I was good enough to baldurize them from scratch