The elves in 5e are just pretty humans with pointy ears. And slender. You are using males with square jaws to compare with the official 5e artwork, but look at the males in that 5e artwork, they don't look far off at all.
The few scant pieces of artwork compiled there is hardly conclusive for how all elves should look like.
And that's the issue right now. Just about ALL the male elf heads are square-jawed and super human looking. If they want to keep those that's fine, but I also think it's valid if people want to see more options on the slender/finer-featured side.
The female elf heads and half-elf heads already do pretty well with this. And I mean, there's already a great example in one of their own companion characters, Astarion. I think he's a great blend of having enough elf-like features while still being able to pass as a "pretty human" if you rounded the ears.
Granted, the alienness of older iterations is not as pronounced, yet you can see the key features remain there. They have triangular/heartshape heads and features, fine features. It is not so much that I don't want them to look african or asian, I am cool with that, my problem is that they look just like humans, and even worse, their eyes look like they're dazed.
I'm Asian myself, and honestly the Asian option just looked...off to me? Would be great for a human male base, but if they want some good inspiration on more elf-like bases they should check out some of those historical Korean/Chinese dramas lol
BUT anyways, onto more general character creation talk, some of the hair options, especially the ones that are pulled back and show the hairline, look kind of like helmets? Like it wasn't properly "glued" down to their foreheads. I think that'll definitely be addressed by the time the full game comes out, but yeah that kind of stood out to me.
And personally I think a lot of the facial issues can be addressed with sliders, but eh I'm fine with default faces too, as I'm sure there'll be more.
More body types would be nice as well!
