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Portraits for a monk?

Discussion in 'BG2: Throne of Bhaal (Classic)' started by Eyebreaker7, Oct 29, 2012.

  1. Eyebreaker7

    Eyebreaker7 Someone clean my litter box ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    I've checked out a couple dif portrait packs but no luck. There seems to be a ton of them as well. Can someone point me in the right direction as to where I can get some monk pics please?
     
  2. Ineth

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    I had the same problem when I started my own BG2 playthrough with a Monk protagonist.

    The best ones I found were from the deviantart.com artist Enkida:

    [​IMG] - intended as an alternative portrait for BG2's Balthazar (who becomes a playable NPC with some mods)

    [​IMG] - intended for use with the Mysteries of the Sword Coast mod

    [​IMG] - generic female monk


    I ended up using the Balthazar one, but slightly edited it to remove the cross:

    [​IMG] (small version cropped closer to his face, for use as hmonks.bmp: [​IMG])

    To use one of them with BG2, open it with the graphics software of your choice and create a 110x170 pixels big BMP version called hmonkl.bmp and a 38x60 pixels big BMP version called hmonks.bmp and put them into BG2's portraits directory.
     
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  3. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    That generic female monk is hilarious! Shave the hair off and call her Aang. I mean who else has a blue arrow tattoo on their forehead?
     
  4. Ineth

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    @Blackthorne

    The artist's description on the deviantart page does say "character Design from Avatar: The Last Airbender :-)"
     
  5. henkie

    henkie Hammertime Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    In the portrait packs from IWD2 there's a few that fit a monk quite well, I think. Additionally, if you look up some pictures/wallpapers from Jade Empire, you should be able to create some good portraits as well.
    Note to self: create some portraits from Jade Empire wallpapers.

    Here's one I took myself from some artbook that I like to use for my monk characters:
    [​IMG]

    The small one should be 38x60.
     
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  6. Paracelsi

    Paracelsi Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    That's Geese Howard, from the KoF/Fatal Fury series. He'd make the perfect monk, he's one of the strongest martial artists to appear in those games.
     
  7. Ineth

    Ineth Instigator Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I prefer to confine myself to portraits that have the same (or similar) realistic-but-painted look as those already shipped with the game.

    Fixed, thanks.
     
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  8. henkie

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    I've never played those games, but he does look the bit in my opinion.

    I understand the sentiment, but find it too limiting. So I just limit myself to stuff that doesn't look too cartoony. Because even the stuff from IWD has a very different art style than the portraits from BG, so might not be ok if I just limit myself to that style.

    /edit
    Also, if you want to create a half-orc character, BG offers very little. IWD2 has a good female half-orc portrait, but for additional stuff, I usually turn to Warcraft/WoW. Those look more like straight orcs, not half-orcs, but at least they look pretty good.
     
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    henkie Hammertime Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Found a female monk portrait recently, based on the Diablo 3 concept art for the female monk. Would have been better if the original had a bit more height to it, so I could've kept her right palm on the picture.

    [​IMG]
     
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  10. Ineth

    Ineth Instigator Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Hey all, I made a bunch more monk portraits from images I collected from the web!

    Besides resizing & cropping them, I also slightly sharpened and color-adjusted many of them, and in a few cases replaced the background or made other modifications to try and make them more appropriate as BG2 portraits to be used along side the built-in ones.

    Note: You can click a portrait to get to its album page, which has a caption saying who the character in the portrait is (if known).

    Male portraits

    ...from various settings:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]

    ...from Paizo's Pathfinder:

    [​IMG] [​IMG]

    ...from Legend of the Five Rings:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]

    ...from Diablo 3:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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  11. Ineth

    Ineth Instigator Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    ...from Jade Empire:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]


    Female portraits

    ...from various settings:

    [​IMG] [​IMG]


    ...from Legend of the Five Rings:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]

    ...from Diablo 3:

    [​IMG] [​IMG]

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    portraits from existing packs

    Here are some more Monk portraits that I found in existing portrait packs from Sorcerer's Place or Spellhold Studios. I did not modify these at all; I just put them here in one place for the convenience of others who may be looking specifically for monk portraits...

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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  12. Eyebreaker7

    Eyebreaker7 Someone clean my litter box ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Is that Miley Cyrus? :D
     
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