And there I was again. I can never find images/miniatures for everything I want that look the way I want. And creating them myself is such a hurdle/burden. I went back to the idea of creating lego minifig style art for paper minis again. It is a simple style not much more elaborate than stick-figures but they add enough color and flavor to satisfy my tastes. As I set out resolved to make scores of lego styled paper minis I decided to build myself a really nice template.
Then it hit me. Just print out a sheet of paper with a bunch of the templates on it and doodle in the details at the gaming table. Here is that template:
Download the "original size" pic, load it in MSPaint, and print at 100% scale. You'll get 20 one-inch figures on one piece of paper. Note, these are designed to be folded along the right side instead of the top. There are 5 figures (front/back) per row. Once you cut them out and fold them, wrap a piece of scotch tape around them to keep them folded. Then you can slip them over my "improvised paper pawns" or paper paper-mini stands. Here's the video for making those:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nPuvC2MWHs
Before you fold them and tape them, flesh them out. Doodle on them. Use pens, pencils, crayons, markers, etc. to customize the blank mini into a lego style portrait. Here's a couple of quick, improvised minis I made with only a blue pen, black pen, and a green highlighter on hand:
I think this will be easy, quick, and fun to do at the table on-the-fly. I think players will enjoy making minis for their PCs at the table as well. In fact, if the players encounter a party of orcs the task of creating the minis for those orcs can be delegated to the players. This would surely result in a variety of very interesting and distinctive orcs! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Update: I broke out my colored pencils and made a Kobold and a Bear!
