NPC Pics

combslice

combslice

Anyone have any good free resources for finding good pics for your medieval fantasy NPCs? I've found some good stuff on deviantart.com and elfwood.com, but there's a lot of chaff on those sites too. I'd love some good artists pages or sites where there are plenty of character portraits to use. Any ideas?

RobJustice

Pop open your favorite gaming book and look for artist credits, then check their website :D

FemmeLegion

One of my DM's favorite artists is Jonathon Earl Bowser, though his is strictly "goddess art" and thus is mostly useful for female characters:

http://www.jonathonart.com/

Personally, I have no intention of using any of those pictures here on OP, because I certainly won't do it without permission and I have no idea if I'd get it or not, but once Florimel tells me "who's who" on the Jonathon site, I will probably drop URLs into the NPC descriptions. For example: "The Queen of Blood":http://www.jonathonart.com/lw.html - Tisk's mentoress in my first Florimel campaign.

sisren

wow, good stuff.
You can also use PC Portraits from wizards of the coast.
"PC Portraits archive":http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/pc

Fivegears

I use the PC Portraits - with a little photoshoppin', they can fit into any campaign, really.

Idless

Also here on "flickr":http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/tags/portrait/page5/

This is a link for "do not edit" "remember to credit" catagory

But there are also other Creative Commons licenses for portraits, that are legal to edit, and post...

Do a italic line at the bottom of the Fluff box, or something. Then its all legal and stuff

Here are some ideas for "edits":http://www.obsidianportal.com/character/ara were I just put on 2 filters in PS, and added ship background

and "here":http://www.obsidianportal.com/character/okeefe were I added the head set, some paint daubs and the background

...Idless