I'm not normally one to praise Dragon Age but their custom portrait system was great. Spent 60 hours with a crosseyed, off center dwarf facing the wrong direction on a neon pink background and could not be happier.
I found it to be absolutely horrid. 3D portraits have no place in a game like Pillars of Eternity (Or Dragon Age: Origins at that)
As pointed out there is a metric ton of custom portraits available on the internet - Not for the three "original" races of course, but you can get lucky at times and find one that fits - or adjust it yourself to match.
Here's my personal collection of (processed) portraits for the game. Just the ones I've given some personal attention in photoshop to match the dimensions and theme of the game.
What is horrid about it? It looks good, and is the logical conclusion of actually being able to modify your character.
My point is that the two system clashes, a problem that IWD and BG didn't have (or Fallout for that matter): You cannot both have a detailed in depth visual character creation process AND handpainted 2D portraits. Because they clash. If I spend 30 minutes building my blond mohawk pirate elf, I want a portrait that at least REMOTELY look like that.
In BG and BG2 that wasn't an issue because quite frankly you could not customize your characters enough for it to matter.
Btw Shadowrun Returns had the generic portrait option, a black silhouette, for each race and gender if you couldn't find one you liked.There is one "generic" file in the art folder in this game but it is not used, it seems.
As for your file: Thank you. I mean it. But I have already looked at, and discarded, all of those.
Btw as it looks now I am going back to one of three options:
The hooded pale elf. The hood looks awesome but the skin color is too white.
The hooded (blue with pattern) human female. The skin color is awesome but the hood is a little too garish for me.
The hooded (white with pattern) human female. The skin color is too dark, however.
If I could get the face of the caucasian human with the black assassin hood of the pale elf... that would be perfect. I can live with only seeing the mouth and nose, because that allows me to create the rest as I want.
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The portrait selection is beyond awful (I am sure someone else has posted this already)
in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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i tried combining the ones you wanted, http://imgur.com/5r1zTwz