As someone who runs most of their games online, mostly using roll-20, I'm always on the look out for good art assets that will make my game look good. Alas, I'm not really a map person, so my games never have the professional polish of dynamic lighting, but I like to have decent looking tokens, character art, and setting art to show off to the players. It adds atmosphere to a game nearly as much as theme appropriate music playing softly in the background.
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Today I found a way to create character art that I fell in love with. It's super simple. First you head over to
Hero Forge and use the character designer to make the perfect character. After that I opened the screenshot in Gimp (you could use Photoshop, or any number of other graphic design programs). I made a new layer, set the opacity to 55%, and then just used a brush to color in the miniature. It's like coloring in a color book, and because the opacity is set so low, the shadows are preserved in decent detail.
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I've used other character creators in the past. The Guild Wars 2 character creator is fantastic at designing characters if you happen to own the game. And the creator in Elder Scrolls games are usually pretty good as well, although a bit more grim than I usually like. Elder Scrolls Online is free to download if you want to give that a look too.
Quick post today, but wanted to share something I just discovered that I'm likely to get a lot of use out of.
