D&D portrait / avatar experiment

Yes! Pick a RPG class and paint a avatar/portriat of that character. Good idea!

Was this suppose to be in the Quick Activities section?

Yes it was lol!

Anyways, im starting my portrait tonight.

Name: Q'tarn Valenost
Race: Elf
Class: Ranger/Theif

I look forward to seeing (and joining) progress. You are going to post wips for it, yes? each person could start a 'RPG-avatar:name,race,class' thread and post 3ish wips and a final. Maybe aiming to spend less than 5ish hrs total, to keep it in the spirit of 'quick activities'.

so just to clarify a few things

when u say avatar you mean the actual full character design as apposed to like a bust shot of the character? and is this limited to medievil-fantasy?

Well mines just going to be a Bust shot pretty much, like 80 odd percent of the ones you see for player avatars in Baldurs Gate / Neverwinter Nights.

Yip ill be posting wips. And no i dont see why it has to be restricted to any theme. [:D]

Hey HazarD,

What was the size that the Neverwinter Avatars?
I think you should set a size first off for this thing if it be your own choice of size or the Neverwinter Size.

It's just a fun challenge. Nothing serious. There aren't any rules. It is just to see how good a portrait painter you can be in a small amount of time. I don't think that the res really matters. If you do want to make it more useable for NWN, then read this

http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/neverwinter_nights_custom_p…

Ive been tied down, but promise to have my rough concepts real soon [:)]

USF: What Aven said [:P] [:)]

So is this avatar meant to be based on our actual lovely selves or what? [:P]
Any size?

Malus: can be anything you want really and any size too [:P], i just thought id put a post up about what i was up to in spare time, and anyone could join in if they felt the need to paint some portraits etc.

Im spending a bit of time on the portrait, its a really weak area of mine and I'd like to improove on it [:)] so comments and crits are definately welcome.

Just a note, those who take part in this activity, please post your work, updates, and comments in this thread only so we don't have a tonne of threads in the Sumea draw club section (since there are other things happening in here too). Tonnes of threads work in Quick Activities and Modeller Challenge sections because they have their own dedicated section.
Anyway, I'd love to take part but I wanna see someone do one first. [:)]

Good point Souri. How about we all post in 'Quick Activities'. then each person can start a thread: "Activity #2 - Avatar 'yourName'"

.... I think that is what i will intend to do :p

aven: dead link

Well ive had a spare hour to splash some ink around.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/219_qtarn.jpg[/img]

This is my first concept / portrait for the guy, will probably play with a couple of others before finalising and colouring one etc.

Not all that happy with how he turned out, eyes too high on head as well as quite a few other niggly bits.

Hopefully iron these out, with the next couple of revisions.

Edit: Going to keep with the basic outline, but make small changes to facial features, more gaunt, shifty looking, maybe a devious smirk on his face instead of a bog standard emotionless stare [:0] with the next revisions.

Hazard (and others), I've started this activity in the other section, are we movin' over or should I bin the old post and repost here?

I've just noticed that S.Bob has started an Activity#2 in the 'Quick Activities' Section so I have re-adjusted to make the avatar project Activity#3

Hazard - That's pretty good for a quick go. The space between his eyes and nose looks a little long though.

MoonUnit - Sorry 'bout that. For those who want the Portrait Guide for NWN, here is the FAQ page:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/27528.html
Go down to In Depth FAQs and select the Portrait one. Should that link not work, go to www.gamefaqs.com and go to the game page and do it that way :)

JohnN - good thinking maestro! Ill re-post in the quick activities section [:)]

Aven - Yeah i know [:(] saw that after it was a bit late, it was worse but i covered it up a bit [:P] once that ink is on... its ON!

Hey guys, great idea here HazarD, I went ahead and 'created' a new challenge on the activity board.. I don't have mod access to this board, so was unable to move the entire thread.

Changed the naming convention a bit too, hope it doesn't inconvenience anyone.

im interested in doing some character pics guys, i will post some junk up soon.