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[nbonaparte]

am I the only one that views elves as looking like these guys?

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Yes.

[Comrade]

I thought those are rhesus macaque?

[Tokkius]

I decided to try sketching in a new style the other day. First picture is test roughs, attempting the facial construction and such. Second is the initial attempt. I'm kind of liking it. Please forgive the blurriness and odd lighting, I had to take the pictures with a cell phone camera since I don't have a scanner. (Also, I hate the two faces in the upper left corner of the first picture. I'd have blocked them out with Photoshop, but I forgot.)

[edit edit: Shade-o was kind enough to post them correctly.]

[Shade-o]

If you want to link it here you need to use the Direct Link.

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[Tokkius]

Silly me. Thank you.

[strongrudder]

I love seeing peoples' conceptual sketches, especially when they work on their own interpretation of a fantasy staple.

[BodyGripper]

am I the only one that views elves as looking like these guys?

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This is more like how imagine Kobolds.

[Siquo]

Since a while I've been seeing the DF elves more as na'vi, with a bit more savage and a bit less honour.

Tokkius, it's fun to see the whole process, and those are some fine dwarves. Nice work on the poses, as well.

[Cruxador]

I see the Elves as basically being Bosmer.
Since, you know, they're both forest-dwelling cannibal elves. The wood-use inversion (Bosmer cannot kill plantlife without violating the Wood Pact, but may use wooden goods produced by others, DF elves sell wood goods but refuse to buy them) detracts from the comparison a lot, but the focus on not fucking plants up is a shared element, still. They are skilled at stealth (compared to DF elves sieging with ambushes) and have beast tongue/command creature abilities (parallel to DF elves having lots of exotic animals to trade). Even Y'ffre parallels to some extent to the generic forest spirits of DF elves.

The details are not totally identical, but they are thematically the same.

[Karnewarrior]

I've never seen a Bosmer chow down on a goblin, though.

[Cruxador]

I've never seen a Bosmer chow down on a goblin, though.

As far as I'm aware, the cannibalism has never actually taken place in an Elder Scrolls game, but is constrained to the lore.
Just like how DF elves are only cannibalistic in practice during worldgen.

[Comrade]

Behold my masterpiece...


Btw, thats an naked elf

[Rex_Nex]

Hmm, may I request something? Something happened in Claspedskull today that I thought was artworthy. Description of my rendering of what a picture of it would look like.

"A steel-clad militia commander, stricken with grief and remorse, has been afflicted with such a state of depression that he has cast himself out of the fortress. He has held back countless sieges single-handedly, but the horrors of war have caught up with him, crushing what spirit and hope he had left. As he wanders off into the gloomy barrens of the Claspedskull wilderness, his two war dogs are at his side, loyal until death."

[Tofu]

sorry for the size...can't use tinypic on my computer for some bizarre reason , and I can't be arsed to find out an alternative.

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it got...kinda butchered by the Jpeg reformatting or whatever..for some reason the colors are messed up too. But whatever, just zoom out or something.
I'm starting a long project portraying as many races as I can get my hands on in the DF universe : O
hope you like : )

[Mephansteras]

Looks awesome to me, Tofu.