D&D Character Designs

The Thurraz Family

Nature-loving and playfully chaotic at the best of times, the Thurraz family resides in a forest commune. The d&d inspired half-orc family lineup was designed for a comic idea that centers around Cedar and his character development as an adventurer in a faraway continent, and his struggles with homesickness. 

The main goal of these designs was to communicate their family dynamics through their appearance. Elowen especially takes after Morga and Cedar after Rosemyr, but despite this still have a sense of overall connectedness as a loving family.

Below these designs is character exploration of Cedar as a young child playing with animals, rather than training like Morga always insisted. The hair is something I especially wanted to experiment with in both of these images, as I've always had this idea that hair is always specially styled and well-maintained for orcs within their culture, as opposed to falling into their stereotype being nothing but simple-minded and violent.

The Warrior Blacksmith: Lughzan

Another half-orc character,  the stoic blacksmith Lughzan who has a history of violence but is constantly running away from his past.

Wizarding Professor: Elleas Odenell

A snobby high elf professor, who Cedar trained under for some time in order to learn magic. Elleas has a wealth of knowledge and skills but it comes at a steep price, and he doesn't go easy on his students.

The Werewolf Ranger: Ulfang

While mostly unrelated to the other characters, Ulfang was designed for a potential d&d campaign. The brief given by our DM was that our characters had to be werewolves, and we were given a specific set of rules that they generally had to follow (i.e. werewolves in their universe have horns that determine which packs they're from, etc)
Ulfang is grubby and very uncivilized, preferring to spend his time alone hunting in the wilderness. Halfway through sketching out ideas with little to no luck with deciding on a design, I felt inspired to base his look on an Oni, which in future I'd like to incorporate more into his clothing design and wolf form.