22 February, 2018

More Custom Character Sheets

Here are two more custom character sheets for a pirate game requested by the kids.



I let them choose from a variety of appropriate character images, which I processed through a mix of tools and pasted onto their sheets.

I like the output... not professional quality perhaps, but I think passable amateur quality.

19 February, 2018

Fun Tools for Lazy Illustrations

HERE is a pretty cool tool to make illustrations for use in custom character sheet design, or handouts that brings stylistic unity to all of it.

You find an image that is the stylistic template that you want, and then upload the illustration that you want in that style, and the computer composites them.

So for example, I have made some custom character sheets that are for use with killershrike's Pathfinder hack for Fate.




I want an illustration for the character.  The player has supplied me with an image of a viking that he likes, so that is the base image.  I have decided that I want a style that looks like pen and ink on parchment, but I want it a little more modern in technique than medieval, so I will take something from a 19th century illustration.  Thus we have these two images, the character picture, and the style reference.

While I like the painting style of the character image, I am wanting to unify the character portraits for all the players sheets, so the style image gives a good, antiquated look but is still clear.

When we run it through the handy deepart.io processor, we get this outcome...




Looks alright.

Just for fun, let's see how well it handles the images for three other player characters...

So here are the originals images.  We want to make them stylistically the same, so we will upload this set with the style template.




And here it is done.


Just for fun, I want to see what it looks like if we use a couple of old styles, first Byzantine, and then actual medieval.



And just to top it off, here is one based off of a Norse woodcut...


Fun toy!