How the hell do you make a good-looking female Dunmer?

Runefang

Nothing a paper bag couldn't fix.

Riejael

Thought this might be a necro, but it's just dragging out. Anyway.. challenge accepted:

Mercami

Here is mine in her mortal disguise,



but she was made to be a vampire.

Sigtric

Check the link in my signature, lots of fine looking Dunmeri folks out there.

ThePrinceOfBargains

The facial structure of female Dunmer is an acquired taste imo. When creating one, I wondered if it was even possible to make a halfway-decent one. But once you’ve got something you really like, they could easily become on of your favorite characters.

Sibenice

The trick with getting a decent looking female Dunmer is to downplay the forehead area as much as possible. The race just has too many harsh lines and it has that permanently furrowed brow.

You'll notice a lot of the best looking Dunmer in this thread do at least one of a few things in their screenshots to help with this. Nighttime/darkened screen shots, forehead adornments and vampirism.

Taking a screen shot in the dark tends to blur out the harsher lines so it makes the faces look softer and less angry.

Forehead adornments, especially the EP crown, covers some of the forehead wrinkles which, again, makes them look less angry.

Vampirism lightens the skin to the point where it's harder to see the permanent furrow in the middle of the brows. And this one, like the adornment one actually work in game unlike manipulating lighting for screenshots.

Other suggestions if you're trying to get your Dunmer as close to classically pretty as possible. Round the eyebrows. The more common triangular ones emphasize the angry lines on the face. Widen the jaw. Dunmer tend to have extremely narrow faces which can add to that whole pinched an angry feeling. Just make sure you adjust the chin to compensate so it doesn't look like it's just jutting down. Also, widening the nose a bit and making the lips a bit bigger as well as up turned can distract from the given face shape.

As an example of the difference a forehead adornment can make. Here's mine with and without one.





Also, as an aside, the Bloodforged skin erases the face wrinkles. So it's an option if you don't mind the lava look. :P

DPShiro

How the hell do you not make a good-looking female Dunmer?

Fixed your title.

Kahina

Numani-Rasi

Banana

Use race change to become a Breton. Worked for me

Storymaster

Faulgor wrote: »

Delte Fyr is the best looking Dunmer you should expect.

@Faulgor
I am quite taken... with her.

BigBadVolk

ye the new skin helps a lot, but I'm really proud of my dark elf look (hope its viewable if not trying to make a better one )

erliesc

Kharnamatic wrote: »

Well all these posts just prove that you can't make a good looking dark elf female.

Most are some fugugly women? I'd almost pay for a few more slots to try to do better.

Remag_Div

My favorite:

Mettaricana

Dragonking06 wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

radiostar wrote: »

Imagine she's not a vamp, she's very cute
Nice hairdo, nice lips, bright eyes!

Oh gawd, her eyes are to seperate

Sorry, but I have to agree here. She looks nice, but HOLY FISH EYES Batman!

Holy warrdenberg syndrome catwoman...

altemriel

Riejael wrote: »

Thought this might be a necro, but it's just dragging out. Anyway.. challenge accepted:

wow! very nice!!

altemriel

create a bosmer!!

Sigtric

Banana wrote: »

Use race change to become a Breton. Worked for me

altemriel wrote: »

create a bosmer!!

SydneyGrey

Put her chin as high as it will go (slider at extreme max right), and when you're doing her "Face Type" (the triangle-thing), put the dot in the "soft" corner.

EvilAutoTech

When I started playing Oblivion I thought Falanu Hlaalu was good looking. On my last play through I just found her creepy. I now find Bosmer to be the best looking elves. Haven't played a Dunmer since around 2006.

inthecoconut

I love the characteristic Dumner glare/snarl. Its so cute.

paulsimonps

Remag_Div wrote: »

My favorite:

Damn that is cute.

BigBadVolk

(forgot to change skin, she looks better in dro'mathra and amberplasm)

Orjix

Amour wrote: »

The secret is to try, try more and then try even harder!




That's my baby girl.

Looks even better than mine, well done

MisterGibs

I, too, am only here to post dunmer girls.

Jade1986

Racial features are important, not all elves are supposed to look the same, they are supposed to have angular faces in TES lore.

Aisle9

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

Captain Rana

I'd tap that

Avidspark

GreyWolf_79 wrote: »

Idinuse wrote: »

I've never created a Dunmer since Beta , but this is my try at Naryu. I'm sure there are many tweaks that would make her better. I apologize for the many settings pics.

Not bad, but she should try smiling.

Avidspark wrote: »

Like this?

No. Just no.

TheTwistedRune wrote: »

@Kharnamatic

I had to have a go. This is what I came up with after 5 minutes or so.

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Me like.

Sigtric wrote: »

Good looking Dunmer eh?

#1 no.
#2 maybe if she smiled.
#3 yes.
#4 see #2

Sorry you're unable to appreciate beauty.

paulsimonps

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

Captain Rana

Captain Rana is Bae, sad she was only a minor character. At the start of the game she and some of the other characters really got me into the story. I loved the first 4 zones in EP, Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, Stonefalls and Deshaan. Rana and Naryu are best Dunmers!

Izaki

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

Re-roll as Breton, Imperial or Nords the only three beautiful races, eleves are kept ugly!

Not sure if ZOS kept Elves ugly intentionally?

Redguards can look very good when done properly

FakeFox

Make the face look angular and evil looking, it just works best for them. Cute Dunmer are against the lore!