Here's a drow elf, inspired by a Larry Elmoore (god of fantasy illustration) painting. Let me know what you think. Credits.... Figure... Zygote morph woman Hair - Trans mapped conforming curls Weapons - DArk Props Weapons Cloak - Zygote Costume Shop Boots - Thigh Boots from Free Stuff Texture for boots and outfit... Leather textures from Props Guild

I like the figure, but I have to agree that it a bit too brown, maybe it is emphasized by the brown accessories....

The dark background might be adding to the brownness of the skin. Also, I think maybe the lights could be a little brigher, so her features show more clearly. But the character looks good. Melanie

I always pictured the AD&D/D&D drow/svart-alfer as having glossy, blue-black skin. Nice image though.

First off, love the rendered picture. I would like to have details on how you got the hair that way. I was trying for a silver white for one of my characters and couldn't get it right. Number two. I've always been at odds with AD&D's version of Drow elves. In reality, if you have a race that lives underground for as long as this race has, they would not have black skin, they would be nearly albino.

I like it being brown like, she's got a sword and halberd, so I assume she fights...so probably brown clothes matching her skin and a dark cape would make it easier for her to sneak around without being noticed as easily SewerRat

i agree, drows are basicly greyish-black skin with red/orange eyes

Well, the Dark Elves of the Warhammer Universe are albinos, with black eyes, IIRC. This just looks like a unique (and cool) breed of elf, not any type of dark elf I'm familiar with... :-)

in Warhammer the dark elves weren't albinos, they just lived up north and didn't get much sun, and high elves (which the dark elves originally came from) were always fair haired and skinned. So they just ended up really light/white skinned. At least, that's the way I figured it. And I've always given them red eyes for no reason other than it looks cool on the models with the pasty skin =) SewerRat

I think it looks spot on. I recognized it instantly when I saw it. In the origional artwork the drow has a brownish look to her. Looks like an effect from the light, but as to why a drow would be in a well lit area? I'm assuming it's drow, can't remember what module it was on http://www.larryelmore.com/ArtGallery/AGColor/AGColorFiles/TheOffering.html When I think of dark elves in a dnd sense I picture them jet black. Otherwise a dark elf could be whatever you wanted. As to them being light skinned from lack of sunlight that would make sense in a realistic way, but when you involve magic and myth all realism goes out the window. I'm currently playing in a drow campaign, and my friend the DM decided they are black because the were cursed whe nthe ywere forced underground. In his world sunlight is eventually deadly to them. So to each their own I say.