I don’t know - I think for a first batch they are okay.
There are 3 necromanc… guys with really evil lookin eyes, 2 guys who love their cool helmets, 2 regular dudes, one half-helmet-fan and a robot.
Also the art style is consistent, so it would be strange if suddenly we get other kinds of portraits, than the rest of the game has.
It does however lack “identification” factor a bit; There should be more portraits with the sense of “I want to be that guy”, and have even more different personalities, helmet styles, color schemes, and facial expressions. Pictures not just of soldiers, but of mercenaries, and heroes.
In sc2 bnet, you have at least a couple of standard dudes, you can pick, which have no distinct features. What about a painting from mr. and mrs. dance kings in the hangar as free base choices
Or a Hunter Pilot which has to be unlocked in alien missions.
I keep the silhouette for the moment, I got a taunt, I don’t think it’s a bad patch; In whole it rather shows, the game might go in the right direction (offering smart ways of cosmetics), and can only help to make the game economy itself more independent of GS. Also this way, artists can improve the game bit by bit, and concentrate on stuff they really like, making pictures.
So if this becomes a great collection, with even user submissions maybe one day?, it also definitely needs some kind of sorting. It would be cool however, if it’s a passive sorting, like on the web, so you can still scroll the whole list, just have horizontal rulers / labels between different groups of pics, which are boxed together.
Since the hiscores already use scrolling over async lists, as it seems, that should be quite possible.