The sheer amount of characters you deal with in fantasy games (offline and on) is a great source of inspiration for sketching portraits and scenes. I find myself constantly trying to convince my D&D players or potential DMs that they "need a visual to really get a sense of the character", which of course means "I am going to use this as an excuse to sketch you a digital portrait in Photoshop whether you want it or not...".
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A less-than-stereotypical Half-Orc Wizard |
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A very stereotypical Halfling Rogue |
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A crazy wildling girl |
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A beardless female dwarf (poor girl, imagine the stigma!) |
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A lecherous Elf |
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A Mysterious Monk |
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Warforged Runepriest avatar for the 4th Ed. character builder*
(*The reference was a little 98x130 image of a grey-metal robot face found on the web, which I cannot for the life of me find a link to anymore) |