Ever had a piece of art inspire a character?

[Klaus]

Neat! What book is that one from?

cheers,
--N

Faiths of Eberron, but I didn't do it.

 

[Seeten]

My fiancee is currently playing a character inspired by the image Seeten is using as an avatar.

I'm often inspired by artwork, but for characters I tend to be inspired by miniatures. I got tired of trying to find the perfect mini for my character, and instead decided to let the mini come first and build the characters to suit.

I have an awful lot of of characters in cases at home waiting for opportunities to come out and play.

My Avatar is the Fighter 1/Paladin 4/Pious Templar 3 I play in my real world game. Anastasia Winterheart. I always pick a picture and mold the character to the art. I also painted a beautiful miniature of the character. I'll post a pic of that here at some point.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I sure have. When you're as fortunate as I am, you have the pleasure of working with a lot of amazing artists. You can't help but have their pictures breed into a lot of PCs and NPCs.

 

[Nyaricus]

Faiths of Eberron, but I didn't do it.

I know you didn't do it, silly - it's not good enough to be your work

Still, you should sue them - they obviously took your idea

Have you done a picture of a Orc Paladin at all? That OP I had was the original inspiration, but boy, if you had a pic that was half as cool as that...

I also really liked your Orc Cleric, and Human Knight. Both are awesome pieces

cheers,
--N

 

[sniffles]

My Avatar is the Fighter 1/Paladin 4/Pious Templar 3 I play in my real world game. Anastasia Winterheart. I always pick a picture and mold the character to the art. I also painted a beautiful miniature of the character. I'll post a pic of that here at some point.

Cool!!
My fiancee is playing Liadan Telskaya deSeyruun, a cleric/fighter/human paragon/Master of Radiance/Radiant Servant of Lathander. I painted a mini for her, but she just got some new armor and he wants a new figure.

You can read about the adventures of Liadan and our party in the Shadows of Greatness story hour in my sig.

 

[Klaus]

I know you didn't do it, silly - it's not good enough to be your work

Still, you should sue them - they obviously took your idea

Have you done a picture of a Orc Paladin at all? That OP I had was the original inspiration, but boy, if you had a pic that was half as cool as that...

I also really liked your Orc Cleric, and Human Knight. Both are awesome pieces

cheers,
--N

Not a full-bodied one, but there's a half-orc in heavy armor in this picture: http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/Pictures/Wallpapers/cc2_wp.jpg that could easily be seen as a Paladin.

 

[Nyaricus]

Not a full-bodied one, but there's a half-orc in heavy armor in this picture: http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/Pictures/Wallpapers/cc2_wp.jpg that could easily be seen as a Paladin.

Neat, that won't work for my PC, but it makes me want to use that for a Gray OrC NPC in my FR game sometime in the future

cheers,
--N

 

[rgard]

I come from an artsy sort of background; I've been drawing since I was 4 years old and can competently draw my own pieces and copies of pretty much anything Wayne Reynolds has drew.

Given that, I also have a really active imagination and get inspired from time to time with artwork. As of late, I've been working on a new character for an open book campaign I'll be playing in, and I was looking for a holy warrior who was decent at healing. Looking through my books to get some feats and whatnot, I happened upon Races of Destiny and it's awesome cover with that half-orc paladin, and it hit me: this was to be my character. A rough and tumble, grumbly, devoted, virtuous half-orc paladin in all his oft-disputed glory.

So, have you ever had this happen to you?

Yep, Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer. 40 odd posts so far and no mention of Frank's work until my post??????????

Hopefully I just missed somebody listing Frank's work as an inspiration for a pc.



Rich

 

[Klaus]

Neat, that won't work for my PC, but it makes me want to use that for a Gray OrC NPC in my FR game sometime in the future

cheers,
--N

May I remind you that I *am* taking requests now. A B&W full-body portrait is just US$30 away through PayPal.



Also, I have a line of stock art PDFs debuting this week at Your Games Now, called Pozas Art Packs. Each release contains 5 high-quality images. Check out the link in my sig.

 

[Nyaricus]

May I remind you that I *am* taking requests now. A B&W full-body portrait is just US$30 away through PayPal.



Also, I have a line of stock art PDFs debuting this week at Your Games Now, called Pozas Art Packs. Each release contains 5 high-quality images. Check out the link in my sig.

Since you are shamelessly self-promoting yourself, how much would a color one cost (based upon my OP picture)?

cheers,
--N