D&D: trying to find character portrait

[juldea]

Inspired by shadowravyn's recent post displaying the images she found online to depict one of her gaming characters, I began searching around to find pictures for my character in londo's Tuesday night game.

Do you know how fucking difficult it is to find fantasy artwork of a female cleric (or female of any type) who is moderately dressed? This is painful! This is the mini I use, and a good depiction of how dressed I want to be.

I have found these, of which none are accurate:

This is supposedly a picture of Goldmoon, though I don't know her to have ever been out of her furs. Still, right Goddess at least, but I don't wield that particular staff, just a quarterstaff.

This is at least a decently-attired human female, but the coloring and weaponry is all wrong.

This is not great quality and also a bit too Mary Sue for me. Sure my character is blond, but that's just because that was an easy color to paint the mini!

This is an official image from the D&D website, but once again, the coloring and weaponry are wrong.

Ooh, this is not bad. Being black and white, I could edit out the mace entirely and the top of the staff. Hmmmm...

Mmmm, pretty!

This is pretty darned good...

She is dressed well.

I will probably continue adding pictures to this post as I go.

Point of note: This image is pretty poignant, and nerdx111 might like it.

Comments

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Just a follow up. The korean version of L2 isnt blocked at work, and their web coders ain't noobs. The lower grade robes all tend to be very short dresses, with calf high boots. I did manage to find a nice, but still looks realistic set with leggings all the way up to the dress. http://lineage2.plaync.co.kr/info/item/armor/armordetail?itemId=426&type=magic&aKind=chest&cType=all&searchKey=

When you view the site, it will bring up the male version. To the right of the portraits feet will be 2 drop down menus. The bottom one will have 2 options, female is the lower option.

The only other alternative is the Karmian set, which is C grade. It's pretty much a solid green color, and shows a bit of upper calf. The ivory-tower.de website has this listed under C grade. I might, just might be able to pull off C grade with time, although there are a lot more screenshots with this armour set (popular). I could aim for a screenshot angle that doesnt actually show any skin on the legs.

Lastly, if I do go the make a character for the screenshot route, You get loads of options. Hairstyle seems to favor blonde, but length of hair? Any peference for character name?(assuming its not taken) I can give you a variety of backgrounds, such at woods, city, tropical beaches, swamp, desert, ice? The dragon in the back ground will be...more difficult.

Yes, I'm so very very very bored at work. Lemme know what you want, and I'll probably start downloading the game when I get home late tonight.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

So I don't think I need you to sign up for the game and play for two weeks just for me, especially when I know I'm going to be ultra-choosy about this and probably not like anything you find. ;) Honestly those are all too "anime" for what I'm looking for, which I just might end up drawing myself!

That said, the closest thing I've found is from the ivory-tower.de website, this combination: Human Mage, Female, D, Robe, Mithril. I feel like that robe could be photoshopped to be floor-length and blue. The hair is all wrong, though. ;) I'm thinking more long, wavy, and on the brown/blonde spectrum.

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Well, the 2 weeks was only if you had desired the Karmian Robe set. (C grade) The lower end staffs and robe sets wouldnt take more than a few hours to obtain. The korean website I mentioned earlier has a set with no skin showing and wouldnt take more than an hour or 2 of game time to obtain. Also, I would have been able to control camera angle, and remove those silly things like....bare skin. Anyways, just for fun, check out the ivory-tower.de website for the following combo: Dark Elf, female, D, Light, Salamander skin. That's supposed to be a full set of armour. You know that stuff that protects you from sharp metal pointy things.....

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's a lot of exposed skin for pointy things to get at, there!

Perhaps I should play this game for a couple of hours and see what I can do, then. Does it cost money? >_>

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's one of the things I'm trying to figure out. The normal game is an MMO like WoW, so yes it would cost money. However, they used to offer free 2 week trials. It seems that due to massive abuse by money farmers, they have shut those down, or at least severely restricted availability. I'll look into it more when I get home and can get past all the wonderful wonderful filters at work.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

ok!

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems the free trials are promotion or from friend only. The cheapest I saw the 2 week trial was $2, but not from a site I think I remotely trust. I'm gonna guess you will go another route. :/ Although if you can get a friend who is a top notch photoshopper, the ingredients are there. Sorry for it all ending up going nowhere.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

No, it's cool, I loved seeing all the things that could be done with it, and it certainly generated ideas! Thank you for helping!