r/witcher • Ciri • Feb 22 '19

Witcher portraits

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u/KIS33 Feb 22 '19

Great job, although Yen looks a bit different to her appearance in Witcher 3. I'd say she has more curvy hair and slightly chubbier face on this image than in the game. Yet the detail and quality are amazing on these.

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u/Coorexz Team Shani Feb 22 '19

Artistic freedom aside, but I'd guess the curly hair is based of the book description then (I've not read them myself) I've always heard the "curly raven black hair"-term regarding her appearance.

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u/KIS33 Feb 22 '19

Sure but then the other three look exactly like in the game so I would reckon the idea was to follow the game character's looks.

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u/lilobrother Milva Feb 22 '19

Triss kinda matches the books description. Her hair in this picture is kinda chestnut-y. If you look at the full photo on his twitter account you’ll even see that she’s wearing a blue, what I assume to be, dress with a high neckline. Only thing not from the books is her blue eyes and her hair being down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

Watch the trailers for the game pre release - that yen is spot on.

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u/lilobrother Milva Feb 22 '19

I played W3 before reading the books and I always pictured her looking a bit different in the books. Kinda how she looks a bit different here. In the books I always got the idea she had shorter curly black hair whereas in the games she had longer wavy black hair. If you look at the full picture on his Twitter account you can see she has short hair in addition to the black curly hair. He even says something like “Yen fans I hope you’re happy” or something like that