Apr 23, 2025
Proto-Strangers
I was looking at Ian Jacobson (guy who did a good portion of the OW concept art)’s portfolio, and one of the early designs for the Stranger’s Inhabitants (a.k.a. my beloved snake-owl-elks) caught my eye, so I tried to draw a few!
Took a while to figure out their facial/body structure, but I’m happy with the final (far right)
Also decided to dress them up a little, using their weird triangle-rebar aesthetic.
Ian Jacobson’s work for EotE can be found here.
If anyone else draws the Protostrangers, please tag me! I find them weirdly endearing, in a grey alien kind of way. But I do understand why they chose a fuzzier, more sympathetic design for the Inhabitants (and I won’t fault them for it, I think the owls are cute af)