"Drow Girl" by Holger ´Mangalore´ Goebber

Rverse the color of the skin and the hair, Drows have black skin and white hair (usualy). Other wise is absolutly wonderful!

Holger ´Mangalore´ Goebber replies: "Hey, people. Normally I don't rant against visitors but how about using some fantasy? In the world of Caelereth a drow is an elf of chaotic alignment and they're also called darkelves. The nightelves are the Nybelmarian branch of darkelves and are whiteskinned blackeyed and live in the deep forests of the Faellaenion Gaeldorioth and the Crystal Woods. Aka in Caelereth these creatures are drow.Don't stumble over stereotypes I should know how the elves look like in my world and they simply do not look like in Salvatore's world. Period. Would be boring if it was different. "

THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! she looks exactly like how my lodoss character is suposed to look. i LOVE the colors! they really fit the idea and stuff.

well i think that art is fantastic and you should keep it up and as for the way a drow should look it is fantasy and who is to say. even wizards of the cost ( owners of Dungeons and dragons to not allways stick to the typical thought to be a drow..... cheak ouut Viconia deVir and drizt duherden
keep thoes pics comming i love the art

I agree with what Kelvin said...sometimes roleplayers can be SO anal, and I AM a roleplayer! I hate to break it to me fellow gamers, but drow/dark elves on different fantasy worlds and in different artists' imaginations L O O K D I F F E R E N T! What are they going to do if they start reading Tad William's "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" trilogy and find Dark Elves that are white skinned, white heaired, and have black eyes? Have an aneurism?

Anyway, that's a great picture!

OK, so she's not the typical Drow from the D&D books. That doesn't bother me - it's still a great picture. Actually, she makes me think of the Dark Elves of the Warhammer system or the Moredhel in Ray Feist's Riftwar books. Both of those are dark only in nature, but could pass as any other Elf physically.

This one is really good, and so what if it doesn't look like a D&D Drow, it is obviosly a drow nontheless, anyway, great work, keep it up.

i love this pic! its amazingly great. i read the other comments and the people that say its not good or that you mixed things i think they need to imagine things and at least have a damn heart!

It’s not a ****ing drow. This is essentially the logic of drawing a cat and calling it a dog when it is in fact, still a cat. Just because you want it to be something it isn’t doesn’t make it that. Drow aren’t a global race of ’just bad elves’, they are a specific race of ****ed up psychopaths and like most other specific races their appearance is somewhat set in stone. This is not ’using some fantasy’. This is being wrong and mislabeling and refusing to fix your screwup.

...That being said it’s a quality picture. Her bare hand looks a little akin to white clay - bones unnaturally set, or rather, seemingly not set at all - but it’s a minor element of a large piece.

*beep* WRONG!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_elves

D&D "used" that terminus just like Tolkien "used" lots and lots of terms in his mythology from existing mythology (orcs = orcus = Roman firey hell). In original mythology it is the term for a malicious elf kind specialized in metal working. Ok, they are dwarflike in Scotland but this is why it is my version of think just like D&D has its version and Tolkien had his version of things.

All in all you could have been politer, esspecially if you can’t be bothered to google for 3 minutes before making unfounded claims.

Oh my god. People. Artist=god. And on the eighth day god said, "Let there be drow," and thus, a freakin drow was created. Which, for the theologically uninclined of you, means that the artist can create a race of elves known as drow, or darkelves, and draw them however he so pleases. Not everything revolves around your personal roleplaying universe.
That said, great pic. Maybe her right arm is a little short? Maybe?

Holger ´Mangalore´ Goebber replies: "Thanks, I’m always surprised how people come to a fantasy site with their predjudices. Where’s the fantasy if things are all the same?

More impressive is that this rather dated picture is still so much frequented (genius choice of the word "drow" as keyword I presume )

You are right about the arm. The lighting is not watertight, hence the intended bend in the arm is not so visible."