Dwarf - Blacksmith, Rifleman or Viking (Help me decide)

Warotic

Hey Everyone,

So I started this project for a dwarf character and decided I should make a thread!

Here's is the latest WIP and some progress.

My goal here is to always get better at anatomy, also to keep it in a next gen blizzard style.

It will be hand painted!

I want to here what everyone and anyone has to say, i also have not decided on if i should make a Blacksmith, Rifleman, or viking dwarf yet. Suggestions?!

Reference/inspiration sheet of some amazing work and anatomy ref.

DWalker

Bombur aside, dwarves are rarely fat; stout, perhaps, but they are very industrious and tend to engage in highly physical labor.

A dwarf viking would be a bit of an iconoclast. They have traditionally been rather poor swimmers and tend to dislike open waters.

Both of your models look far too wide. You also rarely see muscles like that without some chemical assistance. Charles Atlas was about the limit of what you'd see in a person without steroids:

(Yes, sorry, Arnold, but I think you were using something a LITTLE more than eating your Wheaties...)

Warotic

Whats wrong with Bombur?1 the steroid muscles are there to be more stylized like other Blizzard characters

I fixed how wide he was and messed with more proportions

Warotic

How am I doing?! been fixing up some volumes and proportions to fit the style im trying to achieve.

fab-camp

way better !
anyway the biceps looks to small to me now

pmiller001

better, I think his biceps too small.

pmiller001

Also i think a Viking Trucker would be super cool

PrimePriest

To me it seems his arm muscles are way too much defined. Like if he spends hours in gym bodybuilding.
I always imagined dwarfs would have more of a strongman body-type. Something like this.

Still huge, but more bulky, less defined muscle groups.

Warotic

awesome reference PrimePriest, i will work on softening up the defined muscles and see how it looks!

pmiller001- Thanks! viking trucker?

fab-camp- Thank you!

worked on the face and fixed the biceps. Need to work on the legs more they look... wrong.

le0tard

This is looking really cool, can't wait to se the result! Also, viking dwarf is best dwarf.