Portraits and pictures of HoA characters

[Sister Sonya]

Does anyone else look for pictures in magazines, ads, or wherever, for images of what they imagine their RP characters to look like?

Laura draws; but to my knowledge, no one else has spoken up to claim an Artist/Drawing skill!

I've never found one I thought looked anything like Trygve (from Crimson Valor), except, perhaps, for the one on the cover of the Vendel/Vesten Sourcebook. There aren't a lot of images like that around in ads...

But, I do have one for Sonya that I plan on laminating and hanging on my neck during HoA events. Hopefully, that will assist the GM and other players to refer to me as "she" and "Sonya", rather than "Mike".

And yes Dave, of course I could acquire a wig, dress in drag, and come to the table for HoA events. But perhaps I'll gain the confidence to do so when I lose another 50 pounds or so.

Mark might have something to say against that plan, though, because it might deter persons with Generic Tickets from sticking around to see if there are openings in HoA events.

I have spoken with a student at the School of the Art Institute, here, about the possibility of commissioning a "Sonya hat". It won't be ready for Origins 2011, though, darn it!

(And Mark, please place this topic in a different location if it should be posted elsewhere.)

[salamanca]

Illustrating characters isn't something I've done for 15 years. It's something I think about, the picture ends up in my head but I never get around to putting it on paper. (the Romeo is a doozy, it's a cross of manga style and frank miller leaping off a rooftop). But I just never get around to making the sketch.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Here's a link to Don Higgins' art. He's the artist who does all the headshots.

http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=5341

[Klcp]

Actually yeah. I do that with all of my characters except I splice images from Deviantart and other random artsy websites and such. Also Google Images...but anyway I haven't found a "perfect" match for my 7th Sea charries (Sierra and Dona Elvira) yet, but I've got some pretty close ones:


This is pretty close to Sierra, actually. Except slightly less modest.





This is the closest I've gotten to finding something for Dona Elvira, although Elvira's hair would be much darker (Castillian, duh), almost black, and (unlike Sierra) would be much more modest.
Also she would have a Rose and Cross tabard.




See, if I could draw just a tad better, I'd totally draw them. I've actually comissioned a decent pic of Sierra from a friend of mine...but he decided to stop being an epic Anime artist and start being black. --__-- He was perfectly fine the way he was, why'd they have to go and make fun of him for not wearing a do-rag and speaking ebonics... -pissy-

[Harliquinn]

I tend to find artwork that is 'close' to my character and then I use photo editing to make it appear as I want. For instance, here is Aleksei. It used to be an orc, so I found a face I liked, did some coloring to make it more "Fhideli" in nature and less desert.

Aleksei

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[Black Jack Rackham]

I totally forgot to add this. Not for this campaign but I did have Don Higgins draw Don Miguel for CV. Here he is

[CaitlinCallahan]

Nicci actually found an image for Caitlin and Caralyn that I love (and cropped down as my avatar for these boards). I'd post the picture of the two of them, but it appears to be too large for viewing within the post, and I can't figure out how to insert the reduced jpeg.

[Klcp]

Try uploading it somewhere else like Facebook and linking to it.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Back to Mike's original question, I usually get my pics from either GIS for the kind of Headshot I'm looking for, or if I have an idea in mind, I will try using one of the millions of movie and TV characters that populate my brain. For example, for the crew of the Beauty, I used folks from Master and Commander, Robin Hood, My Name is Earl, A Knight's Tale, Last of the Mohicans, and Scaramouche.

Mark

[Klcp]

So where did Billy come from?

[Black Jack Rackham]

GIS

[Klcp]

You with the acronyms! What is that?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Google Internet Search

EDIT: Or in this case Google Image Search would work as well.

[Klcp]

Oooooohhhhhh...gotcha.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Actually, speaking of Billy, the original art had legs which, by cannon, he should not have. So I spent a couple of hours VERY CAREFULLY removing them using Paint.NET. If you look real close you can see where the outline stops along his body.

Mark

[Klcp]

Lol I'll have to see the picture of him again.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Lol I'll have to see the picture of him again.

[threadjack]
You know I won't be running Beauty-ful Treasures right? I wasn't sure whether I would be doing CV07 or not so I cancelled it.
[/threadjack]

[Klcp]

Yeah...and I'm mad at you for that. (I know, I know...you didn't schedule it. But I choose to be immature and blame you anyway. )

[Black Jack Rackham]

Well I am staying through till Monday. I might just run it Sunday after the con...

[Klcp]

Looks like I might be driving myself after all...

[Black Jack Rackham]

Another trapped in my web of moderately enjoyable adventures MUHAHAHAHAHAHA

BTW Mike, back on topic, just because the pic you want is not from the right genre, does not mean that it won't be useful. I kind of alluded to this earlier, but take a look at my pic of Abigail. Ok now look at the original. She's a character from My Name is Earl (Patty the Daytime Hooker). The original obviously doesn't work, but with Paint.NET I made it work.

EDIT: And just for fun I turned her into an oil sketch...

[spizio]

Kerrin McIntosh

[Nutmeg_25]

I may have to see about contacting Don Higgins to get one done! I can't draw all that well