Yup, and I'm really glad for all feedback.wayfriend wrote:Be sure to know I only mentioned it since you asked for suggestions. I think any resemblence to sandworms is more Donaldson's fault than yours. But he does mention them having jaws and skulls IIRC, so they are probably more reminiscent of this than of sandworms. Anyway: you have to think about how form matches function - these things push their faces through the ground, chew rock for breakfast. I think that they really are more worm in the earthworm sense than worm in the Smaug sense.
I was going to mention the jaws in my last post, but something distracted me and forgot about it. Anyhow, they were one reason why I imagined Kasty's pets to appear more Smaug-ish. (I also have a vague recollection about skulls--where were these mentioned?)
I'm not yet done with the drawing, but considering I've put a few tens of hours into it already, and dramatically changing the shape of the skurj would require re-sketching about half of Grueburn's pose, I'll likely retain most of the beast's present semblance. But there's always room for an upgraded, more practical Skurj 2.0 (and I just realized Kasty himself in his half-elohim half-skurj form might be fun to portray...) in the future.