I redesigned Dwarves.

I redesigned dwarves now this doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the classic fantasy dwarf but for what I want with my world I just feel like I could push it a little further it falls under the human butt category of design where it's just a human with a few little tweaks to make it different now again there's nothing wrong with character designs like these but here are some examples take a human Faller buff and green with tusks that's an orc hotter rude and long ears that's an elf a short with big feet that's a halfling short with pointy ears gnome make it green and chaotic you got a goblin and short beard and alcoholic that's a dwarf now for my dwarves I wanted to keep the essence of dwarfs so it still reads as one so no matter what we are keeping the beard and the big nose this redesign didn't happen in one day I have tried to redesign them for a while now so let's go through the earlier versions first we have the very grubby version I got the idea from one version of norse's creation myth where dwarves were created from the maggots in yamir's Corpse so I took that very literally and just made them well not maggots more grubs like but you get the idea this also meant that they had a beetle version that would serve as guards and soldiers then I moved away from the grub shape a little bit but still kept a lot of the essence of grub but it just didn't feel right then it developed further in this version I wanted to show more of the aspects that they were created somehow designed with purpose and I tried to get that across by having everything slot nicely into each other like the arms having their own slots and stuff but that didn't really do a good job of showing that idea either way this version had a beetle form that I quite liked has some Samurai armor influence but still I felt there was a lot of untapped potential in the dwarfs being created by some higher being so the next version I pushed that a lot further and made them look like mechanical creatures still with blood and organs but an exoskeleton that looks manufactured I liked the way this was going but I sort of left it at that and moved on to other things instead now I think I have fresher ideas that could help revive this concept my idea was to take bits I like of all the previous versions and combine them all together a little bit of insectoid with metallic outer exoskeleton and everything slots nicely together I sketched some Concepts in my book and found this really nice humanoid design that fit into a jar shape but like I said I kept the big nose and beard to make sure the dwarfness isn't lost they also carve patterns into their metallic skin and sometimes inlay gold into the grooves I will write more lore videos about them soon because this video is more focused on their design but know that I am working on more in-depth videos about them in the future I decided to make a turnaround of the final design and also put it on a nice page with text the text does have some lore a written encounter with the dwarves at the market which I will read just because all dwarves smoke a substance called the grot and often indulge in drinking as well they ask others to join their drink and smoke and enjoy watching them horribly fail at handling them I myself couldn't resist their eager requests for me to join their drink was consumed through a cup shaped like a smoking pipe you are to quickly suck up the drink like a shot as I did the flavors hit me like a brick wall spicy peppery floral and funky nodes all overwhelming I had a coughing fit immediately as it burned its way down and my fellow drinking Partners seemed incredibly amused by this for the rest of my journey into their Caverns my head felt hot and I had trouble focusing This was meant to just show their character a little how open and welcome they are to people experiencing their culture even though it's also for their own amusement anyway that's all for the dwarf redesign for now maybe I'll redesign some other classic fantasy races what race do you think I should redesign next you can put it in the comments below I hope you enjoyed the video and see you in the next one

Channel: Monstergarden

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Keywords: art, drawing, conceptart, worldbuilding, digitalart, characterdesign, speedpaint, illustration, fantasy, characterart, creaturedesign, creatureart, enviroment, sketch, monstergarden, creature, monsters, characters, timelaps, storytelling, story, artist, creatures, dwarf, concept

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Length: 4min 53sec (293 seconds)

Published: Sun May 14 2023