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Threads and Shadows RPG |
LINKS• Smithsonian article on WSJ's hedcuts
• CNN story on WSJ hedcuts
HIGH-RES FILES
• Faces 01 4.59MB
• Faces 02 5.56MB
• Faces 03 5.56MB
• Faces 04 5,83MB
• Faces 05 5.45MB
• Faces 06 5.37MB
• Faces 07 5.77MB
• Faces 08 5.68MB
• Faces 09 5.56MB
• Faces 10 5.52MB
• Faces 11 5.87MB
• Faces 12 6.14MB
• Faces 13 5.56MB
• Faces 14 5.84MB
• Faces 15 6.24MB
• Faces 16 6.13MB
• Faces 17 6.14MB
• Faces 18 6.05MB
These files are 600dpi scans suitable for printing. Do a right-click, Save Target As... to save them.
WSJ FacesThis is an experiment I have just begun. For those of us who are non-artists, that box on the character sheet intended for the character portrait usually just sits there, empty. I think that out of several dozen RPG characters I have played in the past fourteen years, I have produced perhaps three character drawings that I was willing to have see the light of day. A popular alternative is to hunt magazines and the 'net for images of famous people to PhotoShop into what you want. It can work, but it can also leave you with a character portrait that is so overwhelmed by the star that the character is lost (like my J. Roger Funk portrait). What's an artistically un-inclined gamer to do?
This is where the WSJ -- The Wall
Street Journal -- comes in. They don't use photographs of people to
accompany their stories. In order to keep the traditional feel of the paper,
the WSJ has staff artists who create small faux-engravings called
hedcuts,
like the one at right. There are a dozen or so of these small portraits in each issue of the
Journal. I'm clipping and scanning them to build a library of faces to choose
from for characters. I have only just started, so we'll see how it goes!
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