Outsider Art for Bad Moon Rising

[Zerovirus]

That works pretty well now.

[doofus-01]

This is an orc, and is hopefully recognizable as such. The costume is a little different than LordBob's orcs.

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EDIT: the start of an female orc, I'm not so sure of what one would look like see below

[StDrake]

along the latest trend the orc should look kinda apish-neanderthal
means you may want to add some more 'fun' to the forehead, and probably lower it

[doofus-01]

Yeah, I'm not so fond of the ape idea, even though mainline heads off in that direction. I don't want to emphasize that aspect, even if it can't be escaped completely. Not sure what you mean by fun, but maybe a leather band makes the forehead less open.

[Boucman]

i like it, she looks similar enough to mainline orcs but has definitely female traits... which is not an easy thing to do with the apish look of orcs...

[StDrake]

yep, the headband works nicely, though i'd still propose going even further and..mmaybe send some stray hair to partially cover the forehead above the band, and overally try something that would make the hair look more tattered, dirty..more chaotic. It's nice on the endings, but gives me a more-cared-for-than-tools-allow impression on the top

[doofus-01]

Thanks. I guess her hair could be messier...
In the meantime, I came up with two others. Three or four more to go. Then shading.

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(And to the select few who know or remember the campaign, these orcs are Aldak, Hrala, Grat, and Tahn Gareth.)

[Zigg]

Cool.

[doofus-01]

Thanks. The first of the orc adversaries.

[Zigg]

Does the helmet cape thing join with the cape?

[doofus-01]

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[StDrake]

groovy nicely done on the female hair, but the eye wound on the guy below will need some corrections, mainly in that it looks right now as if he got something sticked by his eye rather than a bruise from some old wound. Try to somehow put more focus on the outlines of the regular face elements rather than the bruise itself, make the face and especially eyebrow shape the form, rather than the form shaping into the face, play around with shading of the bruise too. Hard to describe with words to show what i mean but let's see if you manage to understand.

[doofus-01]

Hmm. I was trying to make it so his eye had been gouged out. But not too messily, of course. I'll look at it again. Thanks.

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I haven't had much luck getting this guy in shape, but I think this is about it.

[thespaceinvader]

I think you need to turn the axe so the blade is foreshortened - when you use an axe, you generally have the blade pointing in the same direction as the knuckles of the top hand, not towards the wrist.

[melinath]

The belt sticks out, since it's so busy and everything else is more approximate