Baldur's Gate Enhanced Portrait

So, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition just came out on Steam which I immediately grabbed for nostalgia's sake. Its still rather buggy and the networking isn't ideal currently (they plan on making it more netplay friendly). But nostalgia tends to be a powerful force when it comes to geekdom.

In any case, one of the things I loved about Baldur's Gate was that the resources in the game were fairly open, meaning I could drop in some files and I'd have some shnazzy custom portraits and voicesets to use. So of course, years later and a few professional gigs into my career I'm all about making my own portraits.

I probably could have used some stray model to do a portrait of but I was feeling egocentric at that moment and dug up a picture of myself instead; Which always causes its own problems as you have some sacred cows about your own appearance, at least I do anyway.

And of course I'm a mage.

National Self Portrait Day

A day late as I've been doing the last couple of years, but I like it! I'll have to speak to my plastic surgeon about some jaw alignments, but imagery is sometimes about beautification, right? Its also awkward doing a somewhat realistic treatment on top of a sloppy drawing because there's always going to be things like, "My eyes are too close. My lips should be bigger. My jaw isn't that chiseled." Laziness gives its just results. Two-hours in photoshop from a mirror sketch and cellphone picture.