Portraits for a monk?

Eyebreaker7 · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 5:13am

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?

Ineth · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 1:38pm

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:

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

- intended for use with the Mysteries of the Sword Coast mod

- generic female monk

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

(small version cropped closer to his face, for use as hmonks.bmp:

)

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.

Blackthorne TA · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 3:51pm

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?

Ineth · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 4:46pm

@Blackthorne

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

henkie · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 5:19pm

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:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ineth

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 38x61 pixels big BMP version called hmonks.bmp and put them into BG2's portraits directory.

The small one should be 38x60.

Paracelsi · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 6:40pm

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.

Ineth · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 6:43pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by henkie

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

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by henkie

The small one should be 38x60.

Fixed, thanks.

henkie · Mon, 29th Oct '12, 8:37pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paracelsi

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.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ineth

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

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.

henkie · Tue, 29th Jan '13, 6:34pm

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.

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