D&D 5E DDN Concept Art

[Markn]

Check this link out for some DDN Concept Art for Forgotten Realms

http://t.co/JPAdxPw9

Anyone concerned about clicking the link (or if it does not work) can go to the Wizards_DdD twitter page to click the link themselves.

There is some impressive art there!

 

[Jack99]

Not a huge fan..

 

[YRUSirius]

I don't - I just don't like the proportions on most of the concept art. The orc, the dwarves, the halflings. All those look to much like a disney cartoon. The concept art that works best for me is the art that adheres to realistic proportions. The barbarians, the humans in general, the half-elf and the elves. Those look good.

But the halfings? Meh. They look as if they were stretched vertically. The same with the dwarves. In fact I tried an experiment: I took the halflings and the dwarf and compressed them vertically. This is my result:



The feet on the halflings are still abysmal (where are the hairy barefoot feet, for Tolkien's sake?! ), but these "non-stretched" versions make them much more bearable for me. Give us realistically proportioned characters and not Disney cartoon characters, please.

And if you're worried that you don't have an iconic characteristic to distinguish halflings from humans - just give them the ICONIC hairy feet EVERYONE in the mainstream audience expects from hobbits!

-YRUSirius

(I might have mixed up vertically with horizontally, but you get my drift, I hope...)

 

[Klaus]

I'm liking a lot of things, like the displacer beast, female Shield Dwarf, Ogre, the female Sun Elf, the half-elf druid, the worg...

 

[Zaukrie]

Love the displacer beast, ogre, kuo toa, gnome, both elves. Like the storm giant and a few others. Still cannot figure out how I feel about the halflings....

 

[gyor]

Yeah, I especially like the displacer beast. I also liked the hell hound and the Bard with his drums.

 

[YRUSirius]

I'd like to coin a new term for most of the monsters. The hunched over gorilla. Short legs, long arms, hunched over. Can we get some more... realistic postures/proportions?

-YRUSirius

 

[Klaus]

Well, a gorilla is realistic. After all, it is real.

I'd like to see other artists taking a stab at the halflings. The "tiny feet, broad head" thing can be chalked up to artist's style, and I want to see how they're interpreted by others.

 

[YRUSirius]

Well, yeah. But there are realistic gorillas and comic gorillas.

-YRUSirius

 

[GX.Sigma]

I still hate these Halflings. How do they stand upright under that weight? How do they give birth?

The human concepts are awesome, and I am rather partial to that troll (except for the fact that it sffers from gorilla proportions, as mentioned above--and it's not nearly ugly enough).