they are looking like to fight with a big, strong and hurtful group. they are looking like a green cavemen with structure of a dwarf and a cruel orc face. the goblins that i know look more like to run away immidietly. to sum up, i like this goblins, but they are looking like an half green caveorc half green cavedwarf.
View full commentthey are looking like to fight with a big, strong and hurtful group. they are looking like a green cavemen with structure of a dwarf and a cruel orc face.
the goblins that i know look more like to run away immidietly.
to sum up, i like this goblins, but they are looking like an half green caveorc half green cavedwarf.
Not really a fan of the goblin at the top. Seems a little too thick and stocky through the trunk. His eyes are dull, and the face reminds me more of a sleepy orc (savage, but tired and dull). The eyes should be sharper, more clever. The sloping forehead is good, but the wide underbitten jaw screams orc. I'd rather see a pointy chin, and a face broadest at the temples. Almost elfin, just ugly. On the positives, I like the overall proportions. The almost monkey-like arms read well to...
View full commentNot really a fan of the goblin at the top. Seems a little too thick and stocky through the trunk. His eyes are dull, and the face reminds me more of a sleepy orc (savage, but tired and dull). The eyes should be sharper, more clever. The sloping forehead is good, but the wide underbitten jaw screams orc. I'd rather see a pointy chin, and a face broadest at the temples. Almost elfin, just ugly.
On the positives, I like the overall proportions. The almost monkey-like arms read well to me. As I said before, I'd narrow the trunk a bit. I definitely like the push for a more defined culture, too.
Posture, the goblin seems a little too orc-like. I'd like to see him standing a bit straighter, more like the sketch in the bottom left (though the overly skinny legs of that sketch makes me read the goblin as being comic relief-fodder).
So, for me, a good start, but there's still a ways to go.
In my opinion, there are a few things the wrong with this gnoll; a) the little braids near the ear, need to go, this is, in a sense, a bipedal, humanoid hyena, so the ear hair, looks unnatural, b) they need to look dumb, but not like Quasimodo, the hunchback thing is weird and awkward, it needs to look hyena like, so have their back straighter, but give them sloping shoulders, c) their knees do not ALWAYS have to be bent, they are humanoids, so give them something that says 'feral' without...
View full commentIn my opinion, there are a few things the wrong with this gnoll; a) the little braids near the ear, need to go, this is, in a sense, a bipedal, humanoid hyena, so the ear hair, looks unnatural, b) they need to look dumb, but not like Quasimodo, the hunchback thing is weird and awkward, it needs to look hyena like, so have their back straighter, but give them sloping shoulders, c) their knees do not ALWAYS have to be bent, they are humanoids, so give them something that says 'feral' without saying 'unevolved' or 'underdeveloped', d) they need to be muscular, but not so bulky, they're hunters, not lumbering oafs, so their necks do not have to bee 4 feet in circumference, and lastly, e) their faces need to be a tad more humanoid, they should be distinctly hyena like, but not so much it looks like someone cut out a hyena head and stuck it on a body.
I like concept A the best. The other examples don't show enough 'bear'. See also Curse of the Asure bonds - my original introduction to owlbears. www.gamebanshee.com/curseoftheazurebonds...
I like the anatomy and the "mammal snout" of the second design but the exposed skull looks too wrock. While I always though of it as a creature of mystical (almost fey) origin it also was clear to me that it is "of the forest". I might be totally wrong. The skin on the legs and feathers on the body should feel to the touch like an owl but the feathers and pigmentation of the skin should look different in each forest depending on foliage and season. Thinking of this I wouldn't be...
View full commentI like the anatomy and the "mammal snout" of the second design but the exposed skull looks too wrock.
While I always though of it as a creature of mystical (almost fey) origin it also was clear to me that it is "of the forest". I might be totally wrong.
The skin on the legs and feathers on the body should feel to the touch like an owl but the feathers and pigmentation of the skin should look different in each forest depending on foliage and season. Thinking of this I wouldn't be surprised to know that they shed their feathers as the seasons change ("Winter-shade owlbear feather" sounds like a ritual-component), white/blackish/brown for winter, shiny-deep green/brown/gray in spring, deep bluish green most of the year (maybe the vivid color of a local flower at the "owl-ears" feathers).
The "wing" (or better the feather cape descending from the arms) gets longer with age and it gets somewhat longer for females tending the offspring (Imagine a mother owlbear covering 2-3 chick-pups with her blanket of feathers).
As for the color of the eyes gold-brown during the day and almost glowing silver with a faint bluish hue during the night.
See the claws on the front paws as very short mostly straight mining picks, ideal to dig frozen soil or to break armor plates. The hind claws I would describe as hooks (a bit thicker/sturdier than owl-claws) which help to climb trees... or just imagine a specimen leap-grabbing onto a poor soul and charging forward on his arms while pulling the victim over roots, branches & rocks.
But of course it is a omnivore (surely any forest would lose its fauna to a fit "predator" like this), and so I think that the pointy "snout" - with a line teeth that looks almost human ones sorted into a two triangles - serves to dig up fungi and insects /this also implies an acute sense of smell/.
The roots of a tree plagued by fungal-infection could serve as nest. The owlbear would get food and tree would get saved.
the goblins that i know look more like to run away immidietly.
to sum up, i like this goblins, but they are looking like an half green caveorc half green cavedwarf.
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On the positives, I like the overall proportions. The almost monkey-like arms read well to...
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