Ozzra Saltmarrow
Monk- Bronze dragonborn, ex-sailor
- Learned to fight on a rolling deck
- Her breath crackles with lightning
Free Dungeons & Dragons character art generator
Visual D&D Character Creator
This free DnD character art creator draws the part of your character that a rules builder leaves blank: how they look. Pick a species (the 2024 rules' word for race), a class and an origin, set skin and outfit colors, add a signature item or spell, and get a painted picture of your adventurer. It is not a stat-sheet builder like D&D Beyond, so pair the two: build the numbers there, draw the face here.
- No drawing skills needed
- 10 bonus credits when you sign up
- First image free
- Half-elf ranger
- Level 5, Gloom Stalker
- Tracks by starlight
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palette
Ideas
D&D character ideas to start from
Six original adventurers, one for each corner of the party. Load one into the D&D character picture creator above, then swap the species, class or colors until the character feels like yours.
Footnote
Wizard- Tiefling wizard, sage origin
- Picked the name Footnote herself
- Annotates every book she borrows
Ulla Brassbellow
Bard- Dwarf bard, tavern entertainer
- Plays a hurdy-gurdy half her size
- Knows a marching song for every road
Fennick Rowanby
Barbarian- Wood elf barbarian, farm-raised
- Rages hardest when crops get trampled
- Still has hay in his hair
Dorran Highcairn
Cleric- Orc cleric of a sun god
- Former army field medic
- Bakes bread for the whole party
Pell Wrenfield
Warlock- Halfling warlock, minor noble
- Pact with an archfey who loves riddles
- Never answers a question directly
Art styles
One adventurer, every style
Brin Ashvale, a half-elf Gloom Stalker ranger, drawn five ways by this D&D character art maker from the same description. Switch the art style in the generator to do the same with your character, or set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views of the gear.
Know the rules
D&D species, explained
Species is the choice a D&D character art creator has to get right first: ears, horns, tails, tusks and height are what people read before they notice the gear. It is the 2024 Player's Handbook word for what older books called race. These are the seven in the picker.
- first published by TSR
- 1974
- first published by TSR
- classes in the 2024 Player's Handbook
- 12
- classes in the 2024 Player's Handbook
- species in the 2024 Player's Handbook
- 10
- species in the 2024 Player's Handbook
- revised Player's Handbook, race becomes species
- 2024
- revised Player's Handbook, race becomes species
Sources: Dungeons & Dragons (Wikipedia); The 10 Species in the 2024 Player's Handbook (D&D Beyond); D&D Free Rules 2024 (D&D Beyond)
Human
As diverse in appearance as the people of Earth, so the look is all yours: build, skin, hair and scars come from your choices. In the 2024 rules humans are Resourceful, Skillful and Versatile, and they can be Medium or Small.
any lookMedium or SmallHeroic Inspiration
Elf
Pointed ears, no facial or body hair, and a life of around 750 years. The 2024 rules offer three elven lineages, drow, high elf and wood elf; name yours in Extra details. Elves trance for four hours instead of sleeping.
pointed ears3 lineagesTrance
Dwarf
Squat and often bearded, 4 to 5 feet tall, living about 350 years. Dwarves see in the dark out to 120 feet and sense movement through stone, so they read best with a broad stance and well-kept gear.
4 to 5 feetoften beardedStonecunning
Halfling
Small folk about 2 to 3 feet tall, brave and famously lucky: a halfling who rolls a 1 on a D20 Test can reroll it. Put a door frame or a tankard in the scene and the size reads at once.
2 to 3 feetLuckNaturally Stealthy
Orc
Tall and broad at 6 to 7 feet, with gray skin, sharply pointed ears and lower canines like small tusks in the 2024 rules. Older art often showed green skin; set either one in Skin or scales. Adrenaline Rush and Relentless Endurance make orcs hard to stop.
6 to 7 feetsmall tusksRelentless Endurance
Tiefling
Touched by the Lower Planes, with one of three fiendish legacies. Abyssal tieflings often have horns, fur or tusks, infernal ones horns, spines, a tail and golden eyes, and chthonic ones a gaunt, ghostly look. Describe the legacy and the horn shape in Extra details.
horns3 legaciesThaumaturgy
Dragonborn
Wingless, bipedal dragons: scaly, bright-eyed and thick-boned, with horns on their heads. Draconic ancestry picks one of ten dragons, from black and blue to gold and silver, and sets the damage type of the breath weapon. From level 5, spectral wings let them fly for a short time. Match the scale color in Skin or scales.
10 ancestriesbreath weaponwingless
Names and signatures
Name your adventurer, pick a signature
A good adventurer name sounds right shouted across a dungeon, and a signature item or spell is what the table remembers. Mix a name from a given name and a family name, then pick a signature for the class. Every click lands on your character in the generator.
Adventurer name mixer
given name + family name
Signature items and spells
Pick the thing your adventurer is known for.
Guide
How to create a D&D character picture
The best DnD character creator visual results show the build at a glance. The generator does the drawing; make these five calls first and you can create D&D character images for the whole party in one evening.
- 1
Start with species, because it sets the silhouette
Height, ears, horns, tails and scales are what people read first. A 3-foot halfling and a 7-foot orc need different framing, so choose the species before anything else.
- 2
Let the class decide the gear
A wizard needs a spellbook or staff, a cleric a holy symbol, a rogue light leather. One clear piece of class gear tells the table who they are before anyone reads the sheet.
- 3
Use the origin for the clothes under the armor
A noble's embroidered sleeves, a sailor's rope belt, a farmer's straw hat: the 2024 backgrounds are an easy way to make two fighters look nothing alike.
- 4
Make one signature item or spell visible
A sunburst that glows, a greataxe carved from a plow beam, a flute trailing light. One detail people can point at does more than five small ones.
- 5
Match the scene, then export for the table
Use the tavern or forest road for a story piece and Plain for a token. Set Output to Portrait to create D&D avatars for Discord or your virtual tabletop, then put the stats in D&D Beyond or on paper.
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FAQ
DnD character creator FAQ
Yes. Signing up gives you bonus credits for one free image, subject to availability; the free preview carries an occreator.org watermark. A purchase unlocks your remaining bonus credits. No card is needed to sign up.
No. This page does the D&D character creator visual work that rules builders skip: the face, species features, gear and colors. It does not roll ability scores, track hit points or check rules. Build the numbers in D&D Beyond or on a paper sheet, then draw the look here. A DnD stat block generator for monsters and NPCs is on the way.
Most DnD character maker visual tools are picrews or dress-up makers: you stack parts one artist drew, so every tiefling gets the same horns and the same pose. This D&D avatar maker draws a new picture from your choices instead, so the species features, gear and pose come out as your own, which makes it closer to a D&D character designer than a dress-up game. Use it as a DnD avatar creator for Discord, a D&D avatar creator for forum icons, or a DnD character avatar creator for the whole party.
Yes. The 2014 Player's Handbook called them races and the 2024 Player's Handbook calls them species. It lists ten: aasimar, dragonborn, dwarf, elf, gnome, goliath, halfling, human, orc and tiefling. Half-elves and half-orcs are no longer separate options in 2024, so many players use elf, human or orc traits and describe a mixed heritage. The Species picker shows the seven most visual ones; for an aasimar, gnome, goliath or half-elf, leave it empty and describe them in Extra details, like a goliath who looks like a stone giant.
All twelve from the 2024 Player's Handbook: barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, paladin, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, warlock and wizard. Each class adds its gear to the picture, like a holy symbol for a cleric or a spellbook for a wizard. Origin adds eight of the book's sixteen backgrounds, such as Sage, Sailor and Soldier, which mostly change the clothes under the armor. For an artificer, leave Class empty and describe the tools in Extra details.
Yes. Set Output to Portrait for a head-and-shoulders picture that crops cleanly into a round token for Roll20, Foundry VTT or Owlbear Rodeo, or into a Discord avatar, and keep the background Plain so the edge stays clean. That is what most people want from a DnD portrait creator, a D&D portrait creator or a DnD character portrait creator. For a full design, set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views with palette swatches, which turns this D&D character portrait maker into a DnD character designer your DM or an artist can work from.
No. All three are short for Dungeons & Dragons, so a DnD character image creator, a D&D character image creator, a D and D character image creator and a Dungeons and Dragons character image creator are the same thing: a character image creator D&D players can use for any species, class or setting, from the Forgotten Realms to a homebrew world. The same goes for a D and D avatar creator or a Dungeons and Dragons avatar creator. If you call your characters OCs, this is also a DnD OC creator, or D&D OC creator, for your table.
It draws pictures, not printable 3D files. Pick 3D as the art style for a stylized render that looks like a painted miniature, a handy reference for a custom mini or a sculptor. Keep Anime, the default here, for the painted look of fantasy rulebook art, or try Semi-real for an oil portrait, Chibi for party stickers and Sketch for a pencil journal page. Every style reads the same fields, so this DnD character art maker turns one adventurer into all five without retyping.
Not as a dice table, but close. The Surprise me button, the one with the dice, loads a random adventurer from the ideas on this page. If your table rolls looks on a d20, roll first and type the results, like a scar, mismatched eyes or a gap-toothed grin, into Extra details, and the D&D character generator image comes out with every feature you rolled.
Not really. It is built for player characters and NPCs, one figure per picture. You can describe a friendly monster NPC, like a kobold shopkeeper or a mimic in a top hat, in Extra details, but it will not edit stat blocks or draw a battle map. An AI DnD map maker is a different tool; here, the Background picker only sets the scene behind your character.
Give them one thing they do brilliantly, one flaw the party has to work around, and a reason they need the others. The usual traps are a secret royal or divine parent, being the last of their kind, and a tragic backstory that explains every power. A level 1 character is supposed to struggle; the growth is the story.
Posting your character in your campaign's Discord, as a token or as a profile picture is what it is made for. Dungeons & Dragons belongs to Wizards of the Coast, a Hasbro company. Its Fan Content Policy allows free fan content but not selling it, and the D&D logo is off limits. The core rules are also published as the System Reference Document (SRD 5.1 and 5.2) under the CC-BY-4.0 license. Check both before you sell prints or merchandise.
Plan one adventurer at a time with the D&D character picture generator, keeping the same background and art style for each. You can arrange the separate pictures into a party layout afterward; this page does not assemble a group portrait.
Describe the shape, material and placement of each unusual item in Extra details. The D&D character image generator can interpret those visual notes, but it does not check item statistics or whether your DM allows them.
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