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Started by Mistress Elysia, May 19 2009 10:00 AM

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#1 Mistress Elysia

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Posted 19 May 2009 - 10:00 AM

I have to say that I drew Fade's portrait a hell of a long time ago - I've painted Fade a few more times since then and so I have converted two of them to portraits.

However, this thread isn't just for my portraits - I know that some of you have made your own portraits, and I would a) love to see them and b) create a nice resource for people who like to have a choice in these matters. So if you have made a new Fade portrait and wish to share it, please post away!


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(original painting HERE. This is an older one that I'm not so fond of...)

I also have THIS PAINTING but it doesn't make a very good portrait...

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#2 yarpen

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Posted 19 May 2009 - 10:17 AM

Last one is just... genius! :)

#3 Vall

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Posted 21 May 2009 - 04:53 PM

The first one is awesome

#4 Kellen

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Posted 21 May 2009 - 08:20 PM

I think the second is actually my favorite.
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#5 kiwimike

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Posted 22 May 2009 - 03:50 AM

They're all well done but the third would probably be my favourite, might have to use that in future.

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#6 Galsic

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Posted 22 May 2009 - 11:32 AM

Agreed on the third one. It seems closest to the BioWare style (could probably still use a bit of tweaking toward that end). It's also the cutest one, imho. I'd use that one before the other two, maybe even the default.
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Posted 23 May 2009 - 06:37 AM

First one is my favorite, all are good, and all 3 are better than the default pic IMHO.

Welcome back, btw :) Never met you back then, but I'm sorta a new kid (well, almost a year now, but still) around here. Haven't yet motivated to play a full BG2 game with an NPC mod, but I probably came closest to doing so with Fade (Amber being my other temptation ;), and only held off Fade cause of lack of ToB content. Will -definitely- play through with her when that's all done! :)

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#8 berelinde

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Posted 23 May 2009 - 06:50 AM

I like the thir one best, and I think it blends better with BioWare than the default portrait. The second is nice, too, but the first one is a bit... well, she looks kind of like she's had enhancement surgery.

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#9 Scipio

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Posted 23 May 2009 - 06:58 AM

Number 3 is the new portrait of my favourite Tiefling.
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#10 Qwinn

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Posted 23 May 2009 - 07:23 AM

The second is nice, too, but the first one is a bit... well, she looks kind of like she's had enhancement surgery.


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Your point being?

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You sorta said that like it's a -bad- thing... ???








:lol2: C'mon! You know -someone- was gonna say it....

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#11 Mistress Elysia

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Posted 23 May 2009 - 10:16 AM

Thanks, everyone! :hug:

I like the thir one best, and I think it blends better with BioWare than the default portrait. The second is nice, too, but the first one is a bit... well, she looks kind of like she's had enhancement surgery.

*nods* I know what you mean - unfortunately, none of these are dedicated portraits, and so they aren't perfect for the job. Eventually, I will probably digitally repaint this picture to be Fade (heh, I am better with traditional media over digital, so I bet I screw it up...), but I can't do that until my house renovation are finished (just the bathroom to go now!) and my PC is unpacked again - although I do have Gimp2 on this laptop (I have Photoshop on my PC), my lovely wacom tablet is - you guessed it! - packed away with my PC... bah!

If I get time, I'll probably repaint the third portrait again as well... I've got a bunch of things I want to do, so I might as well! :D

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#12 Thanatos.

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Posted 23 May 2009 - 10:34 PM

Wow, that picture looks like Angelina Jolie after plastic surgery.

That's a good thing! :D

#13 Aliya

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 01:41 AM

I vote for number 1!

#14 Bane

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 07:34 AM

My God, I just love all the artwork.

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 08:18 AM

I like the third one. Fade looks a little less hard-faced, I think.
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#16 Rodman49

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 11:45 AM

Here is the one I used, I think its from another thread on these forums right here. I slightly altered the small version for better head ratio. I think it fits in very well with the BG2 portraits.

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 12:17 PM

Heh, I actually resized your Shadow Thief picture a little while back to make a portrait (haven't shown it anywhere, though, because I'm cautious about redistributing artists' work). I'm still very attached to the other one, but I use this one sometimes.

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#18 LightStorm

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Posted 13 July 2009 - 12:28 AM

number one is my fave has a real Mistress look about her :)

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#19 Raiha

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Posted 26 December 2009 - 11:16 PM

I hope this doesn't count as thread-necromancy but I really didn't want to start a new topic just for this.

In this post by Rodman49 there was an excellent alt. portrait that sadly only lacked a few details to really 'be' Fade.

Allow me to add the detail.

Props of course go to the original artist, then Pandaemonium for finding/cropping the pic, then Rodman49 for the ears, and then yours truly for the hair and tattoos.

Hope she helps somebody besides me.

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#20 Pandæmonium

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Posted 27 December 2009 - 05:20 AM

Oh hey I like the addition of the tats. That'll be my new Fade portrait for sure.
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