Yes, I usually take some standard SE shields.bmp file and adjust hue and palitra to hide my plagiarism
Race_portrait is another issue of course. When you start making new race, you DO have some kind of image how they look like, right ?
Try to search google.com for images assosiated with your race concept. When it fails, resize N. Portmann photo to 128x128 and upload your race here.
[ May 17, 2002, 01:13: Message edited by: oleg ]