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Mar 6 2005, 12:51 AM
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GOD Retired team member Posts: 1728 Joined: 14-July 04 From: Ireland |
I have been messing around with Photoshop all day...I guess I am a little obsessed with portraits at the moment.
Anyway to take my mind off choosing portraits for NPC mods I have done the following. Each image is taken from various locations around the net, mainly Poser art sites. The armour and such are various cobbling together of bits and pieces from BG2 armour and some other BG2 portraits already available. Let me know what you think: Top-Left - she wasn't so pink, didn't have the elf ears, didn't have that birth-mark/tattoo type thing and didn't have the armor. Top-Middle - he didn't have any armor, no clothes at all in fact, didn't have the tattoo or the elfish ears and the hair was so dark you almost couldn't see it at all! Top-Right - all this guy had was a face and only about half the neck you see now. I extended the neck and added the worn armor. Might make a decent villain. Bottom-Left - again this guy was just head and short neck. I added the armor, recoloured it blue and red tint, lengthened his neck using the smudge tool. Also he was paler than the elf girl above so I gave him a tan by using a skin graft from another portrait and smudge it in. There is still something odd about this one..the eyes? Bottom-Middle - she wasn't a drow and had no clothes on! I think the leather straps might still need some touching up...but don't they always! Bottm-Right: he was just a head wearing a black polo neck, I had to give him a different background to highlight his hair, added the armour which fitted nice with the polo, copied the sword handle to the left side. Might make a decent Armsmaster for some Duke. Gave him the scaring too. |
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Mar 9 2005, 01:07 PM
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Forum Member Posts: 1366 Joined: 22-August 04 From: Germany |
Those are great!
I like these ones better for BGII than the first ones, as they look like original BGII style! The cleric and the bard are just perfect. To the make-up: Try to keep the blue between eyebrow and eye, it's spread a bit too far to the side (if you know what I mean.) The lady with the hands: It seems to be destiny that I have the most critic on the one you like best, well. Chest region: Somehow doesn't look right. The collarbone is too far down and should be more to the right (my right, her left, and this time I mean it.) The region where the neckline starts has shadows that make it look as if there's a bone of some sort (which surely isn't...) The head: I miss some "volume" here. the head (the hood) should rise higher IMO. Compare with the cleric how "high" the head rises from the forehead: This is missing here, do you see what I mean? Nitpick: Her right arm (the one on the left side...) seems to be bended / curved. Make the upper part of the arm (starting from the back of the hand) a straight line. Rabain, I really don't post my criticism to annoy you. But I will always tell you what I think looks wrong in the pictures you show me... and hope it is helpful. And that you won't stop showing them to me. QUOTE the guy on the left (your right?) has a long neck and a small head...that's it...he is very sorry but he was born that way! OK that's a valid explanation. (With head too small I meant that the cut-out of the picture is different than of the usual BGII-portrait, where the portraits are chosen in a way that the head size is mostly the same, and for consistency I like it that way.) And yes, I meant on the right, of course.
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