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#1 Ilmatar

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:08 PM


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#30 Challenge:
Minsc
Deadline: Friday, 21st March
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Our 30th fanart challenge will be a tribute to Minsc! I noticed we have had a challenge about Boo, but not of the berserk defender of Goodness himself! About time to unleash our creative juices upon him, so go nuts! Illustrate your favourite Minsc moments, paint wondrous portraits or come up with comics about him! Don't forget Boo either for what is Watson without his Holmes or Minsc without his Boo?

The medium is free and style your own as long as you have made the end product yourself. Have fun, everybody, you have two weeks to get into the stats! For reference I attached both of Minsc's portraits to this post. :)

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#2 Choo Choo

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:27 PM

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#3 vilkacis

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 05:00 PM

Yes. That is Minsc. Doesn't get Minsc-ier than that.


And this is mine.

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Spawned by a very, very long thread on the WotC boards that amused me so much that I had to read through the entire thing even though I don't play 3E.

And despite the "don't ask" bit, I'm going to add that the "frenzied berserker" class apparently gets mad boosts to combat skills but has to make a save not to start carving up their party when they run out of enemies. Well, something like that, anyway. Oh, and apparently they fly into a rage at the drop of a helmet, too. Sounds like fun. And a lot like Minsc.

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Posted 09 March 2008 - 09:24 AM

:cheers:

Minsc has been talking with Sarevok too much.
And I'm bored. xP

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Edited by WeeRLegion, 09 March 2008 - 09:24 AM.


#5 flysoup

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 11:19 AM

Minsc, one of the most characteristic personalities in the baldurs gate saga. I painted a more enraged portrait of the
famous ranger and his sidekick, the giant spacehamster Boo. Or maybe it is Minsc that truly is Boo's sidekick.

Made Boo 4 times bigger than in the original portrait, he is a spacehamster after all!

I tried to capture Minsc and Boo's frenzy mood with this portrait rather than the original more layback feeling.

First I made a pencil sketch and then painted it with the mouse in photoshop. I so wich I had a wacom...
I tried to use the same/similar color scheme using the original portrait as reference.

Enough babbling, here they are (Not fully completed yet, but a step into the progress): (Latest edit, corrected the placement of the mouth as WeeRLegion pointed out and I agreed, aaaaand pinted the edges of the mouth aaaaand curled the upper lip.
Don't want to stretch the mouth more though, Thanks for the critique all, it really made the portrait better.)

Latest final edit for now (added highlights and shadows on jaw and throat/neck among others.)

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Edited by flysoup, 10 March 2008 - 12:50 PM.

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 11:35 AM

Ooo! Looking great. Only the mouth looks a bit weird. I'd say it's placed too low on the face, and it's too small compared to the size of the head.

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 12:06 PM

Ooo! Looking great. Only the mouth looks a bit weird. I'd say it's placed too low on the face, and it's too small compared to the size of the head.


I agree and just corrected this, still work to be done but I think the feeling is rather Minsc'y.
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#8 Ilmatar

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 12:08 PM

Ooo! Looking great. Only the mouth looks a bit weird. I'd say it's placed too low on the face, and it's too small compared to the size of the head.


I agree and just corrected this, still work to be done but I think the feeling is rather Minsc'y.


Now the mouth isn't too small anymore, but the corners of his mouth could be more stretched and the upper lip curled higher. Then again that's totally nitpicking because the painting really is very Minsc-y and wonderful. And can I just say that Boo is one mean hammy! :D Awesome work, flysoup!


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#9 flysoup

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 12:20 PM

Ooo! Looking great. Only the mouth looks a bit weird. I'd say it's placed too low on the face, and it's too small compared to the size of the head.


I agree and just corrected this, still work to be done but I think the feeling is rather Minsc'y.


Now the mouth isn't too small anymore, but the corners of his mouth could be more stretched and the upper lip curled higher. Then again that's totally nitpicking because the painting really is very Minsc-y and wonderful. And can I just say that Boo is one mean hammy! :D Awesome work, flysoup!


Fiddled the mouth based on your critique. Thanks ;)
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#10 flysoup

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Posted 10 March 2008 - 12:53 PM

Thanks for the opinions, Minsc and Boo is ready to head out for some evil hunting now with a more frenzy look on their faces that probably will make even Sarevok to pee in his plate.

Minsc_Boo.jpg

Here are the portrait files if you want to use it for Minsc in the game. Just paste them into your override directory.

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Attached File  NMINSCS.bmp   6.85K   349 downloads

Edited by flysoup, 10 March 2008 - 03:18 PM.

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#11 Madeleine

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 11:36 AM

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Anna (my PC, the halfling girl.... er woman): A
Haer Dalis (the guy on the right): H
Lilacor: L

A: Minsc...Itīs very kind of you carrying me but the fact that Iīm a halfling doesnīt mean I canīt walk by myself.
H: I donīt think he is listening to you, my Raven...
A: Minsc, let me down. Please. Now... Minsc?! Can you even hear me?! Um...Dalis? Help?
H: Sorry, my Raven, Iīm too preoccupied with smirking.
L: I want to be carried on the shoulders too. And remove this disgusting edge! I want to kill something!
A: Dalis, Boo! Stop laughting at... oh, never mind...

I just had to paint this scene after I imagened it...

#12 Tempest

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Posted 17 March 2008 - 05:16 AM

"Where have you brought us, Boo? I am duly impressed by your show of great powers..."

Well, instead of dumping him on the Pocket Plane, Boo dropped Minsc into World of Warcraft:

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 06:48 PM

There's more to the picture, but I couldn't get it all with my dumb webcam <_<

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#14 Ilmatar

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 01:07 AM

Yay! Thanks to everyone who participated in illustrating Minsc, but this challenge is now over. Time to go gender bending!

Entries are still welcome as usual, they just won't be counted to the stats after this post.


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Posted 22 March 2008 - 02:09 AM

Can I just mention that Issy's Minsc looks uncannily like the pokemon, Squirtle ^_^. Just saying. Anyway, good entries, everyone. Minsc and Boo would be proud, for sure.