Morroblivion

The type of leather's in the name. Netch leather is a thick, spongy leather. Like durable-yet-supple foam rubber.

Here you'll find the other version of the netch leather armor to use as a second reference. https://tesrenewal.com/comment/63113#comment-63113

I like the idea of all leather tribal shield, and the leaf shape. Some nice tribal/paleolitic paintings on them would be really nice too.



Native American shields is a great example too, and probably closer to Dunmer (especially ashlanders) culturally than Africa. Some tribal adornments would be nice to have as well, but I'd replace dangly feathers with some firmly attached tusks/chitin decoration instead, due to physics limitations, and in case of feathers - lack of birds on Vvardenfell :P

If I could choose: "A" and "E" for tower shield. "A" looks intersting for rough processed shield in general and "E" reminds me of the netchs silhouette from above. Could simple be a big part from its back? "C" or "G" for normal shields.

C and E

these are all lovely :3

It'd be interesting to see these texture designs fit to the best rated shields silhouettes from the previous post. I love B.
E, on the other hand, looks too much like a particular symbol, like a clan, or something.  Maybe  because the symbol is too precise/geometric, opposed to B's.
A would look lovely with a few more trinkets. 
Concerning the side view, I'd go with something less convex/more flat.
C, in my opinion, is quite far from the armour's aspect.

Great work!

Just a tiny suggestion. You could make it asymmetrical, and have it borne like the guards in dragonborn.


I know you already have that imag, Swiper, but just in case someone wants to comment about it.

If you want to go with the asymmetric look, I'd have the opening toward the inside, to give more freedom to the weapon-arm and visibility when the shield is in front. Seems some historic asymmetric shields had this, too. http://www.warfare.altervista.org/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-94-95-Hu...

Thanks Sablestone. Sometimes, we do agree. It's reassuring!

The cutout looks better on the inside/upper part, like in your bottom right concept, Swiper.

Maybe try a slightly different shape for the regular shield. Like E here.
https://tesrenewal.com/files/shield_thumbnail_1a.png

Nexos

Tower shield:  2 for the ornaments, 3 for the shape.

Shield: 8

I think simple Zulu's shield would be the best one.

Same coloration with moon-and-star can be used as variant.

 

Yeah, with Moon and Star painting it'd only fit Urshilaku ashlanders, and these shields are going to be WAAAY more common. I'd look at ashlander tribes symbols, and come up with something similar and more vague/generic. Or even something very simple, like patterns.

i like how this is all coming together, i can't wait for the finished product!

I like both the tower and the regular shield, but they seem to have different design philosophies, if that is the word, and I like the tower one better. I think the asymmetrical cut-away makes more sense on the tower shield, since it is big enough that it might get in the way of your main weapon (assuming that shields are restricted to the player's left hand). I'm not sure it makes as much sense on the regular shield, and the dual cut-aways make the frame much more complicated than seems appropriate for low-level gear -- and at the expense of rigidity. I think the Zulu-themed shape would work best, with stitching reminiscent of the tower shield in your drawing.

These look great - small niggle though: the way the shield are styled almost exactly the same (with matching stitching and the triangle patterning) makes it look to me like they were designed and crafted as a matching set by the same shield maker. This feels wrong for what should be a fairly common shield made by lots of different craftsmen, often without too much thought. Perhaps one of them could be changed up a little bit? Again, only a minor thing - love the overall direction.

I think they look great.

Nothing to add. They look top notch.

Perfect. Now do the back!