Portraits for a monk?

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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?

 

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

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

 

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:

The small one should be 38x60.

 

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

Fixed, thanks.

 

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

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.

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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.

 

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.

 

Hey all, I made a bunch more monk portraits from images I collected from the web!

Besides resizing & cropping them, I also slightly sharpened and color-adjusted many of them, and in a few cases replaced the background or made other modifications to try and make them more appropriate as BG2 portraits to be used along side the built-in ones.

Note: You can click a portrait to get to its album page, which has a caption saying who the character in the portrait is (if known).

Male portraits

...from various settings:



...from Paizo's Pathfinder:



...from Legend of the Five Rings:



...from Diablo 3:

 

...from Jade Empire:




Female portraits

...from various settings:




...from Legend of the Five Rings:



...from Diablo 3:



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portraits from existing packs

Here are some more Monk portraits that I found in existing portrait packs from Sorcerer's Place or Spellhold Studios. I did not modify these at all; I just put them here in one place for the convenience of others who may be looking specifically for monk portraits...

 

Is that Miley Cyrus?