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Character Art: Not Male, Not White, Not Sexy

Hi all, I'm finding it difficult to find good character art that's not white, not male, and not sexualized/exoticized.  I'm looking for anything different from South Asian characters to Indigenous characters to Middle-Eastern characters to everything in between.  Tired of seeing only white muscle-heavy dudes and chix with no armour but lots of boobs and midriffs. Suggestions, please.  Even better if the art involves different ethnicities of different 5e races.  Thanks!
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Are you looking for tokens or full body artwork? Can you give any examples you've found on the Marketplace already?
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Tony R.
Pro
Sheet Author
You can find good character art on sites like Pinterest and Reddit. Try googling "Character Art POC" for example. Here is one of the first links I found. r/characterdrawing, r/ImaginaryCharacters, r/ArmoredWomen, and r/ReasonableFantasy subreddits might have some more good stuff. Lots of character art unfortunately remains hyper-sexualised and predominantly white but you can find many images online that fit your criteria. You can also make a post to the Roll20 Market Place forum to bring this idea up with artists if you want to see more character art on the Roll20 marketplace.
Speaking of Pinterest, this guy has a good collection of fantasy and similiar art/token stuff that has some good minority representation: <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/singletonaaron/_saved/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/singletonaaron/_saved/</a>
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Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author
My recommendation would be to use internet image searches to get character images you are interested in.&nbsp; Then you can use an image editor like GIMP or Photoshop to make changes to the image, like giving the image transparency (if it doesn't already have it) and deleting all the background other than the actual portrait art.&nbsp; You can add frames the same way or use a dedicated program like TokenTool. <a href="https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/</a> Then your tokens are only limited by what comes up in internet or dedicated art site searches, and you will have access to much more variety than what is on the marketplace.&nbsp; If you use top down tokens, then Devin Night has a lot of tokens on the marketplace.&nbsp; There are darker skin shades on some, but they are scattered throughout the various packs, so not something you can just get one pack to acquire.&nbsp; There are some other top down artists, but I'm not as familiar with their work. <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/1/devin-night" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/1/devin-night</a>