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[Canadark]

Ooookay, nightmares for a month it is.

 

Seriously Bala, do you do this professionally? You're far too good to imagine that your skills aren't being used to better mankind.

That is an ideal demon, either way.

Thanks!  I'm not a professional yet. 

These are old.  I think these are almost the first fanarts I ever posted here (but never in this thread, so here they are now).  Dwarf silhouettes!

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I immediately though of Ralph Bakshi's LOTR

[Canadark]

[spoiler]

I'd say this is probably the best image of a goblin I've seen so far, at least the way I perceive them. I play with Dig Deeper, so I imagine the goblins to be something similar to the orcs that the Fellowship of the Ring fought in Moria, while the orcs in DF are akin to the Uruk Hai who fought at the Hornburg.

[HAMMERMILL]

Thats about right for a goblin, I'd think. Cept they have 5 toes per foot in the raws.

Kobolds only have 3 toes per foot, but still have 5 fingers. So kinda like lizard feet, I guess?

[Idiom]

Balathustrius, is your day job art related or something? I can't imagine how many years of painting it took to be able to churn this caliber of stuff out like you do.

And FYI, Elves aren't sentient plants. They're sentient fungus. They eat the corpses of their victims. Only fungi eats dead animal matter, not plants. Of course, then you'd expect them to care about the dwarves staple crop being plump helmets, but still. Then again, there are insectivore plants. Shoot. Now I don't know.

But I'm liking those green elves you just posted awhile back.

[Neruz]

Elves are Orks?

[LegoLord]

Tolkein Orcs and Goblins were very inhumane, I thought.  Personally I don't like the idea of humans being the only intelligent life capable of being "humane" (ethical is probably a much better word, given how horrible some people can be - another topic).  should other intelligent life exist.  It's always struck me as a little racist - if it can think for itself, it can make the decision to be nice.  Culture and whatnot might make that individual more or less likely to be nice, mind you, and the more isolated the culture is, the stronger it's presence.

So Goblins could be the evil little genocidal bastards, as long as they are somewhat isolated (culturally, not necessarily geographically).  If they aren't, then some should be good and some should be bad.  So really I think it is all about culture.  Without the culture, it's implied that they're all like that just by being born.

[Fault]

HEY guys

I was working with some graphite and gradient shading pencils today.
Decided to try for a more realistic style than what I usually work with, here are the results




it didn't scan exactly straight.. you can see a bit of the sketchbook rings at the top

[Sensei]

Heh, I recognize Cacame's hammer, and I like the ASCII-relevant plump helmet.

I recall Orcs were the product of Sauron, and basically evil by "nature". Goblin were similarly evil, I think the cause being demon-related, and all of their offspring follow suit. But enough about Tolkien.

[HAMMERMILL]

I instantly recogonized the alternative spellings of "Dwarf"..."Dwarrow", "Duergar and" "Demuirg"....

I suddenly realize I'm more of a D&D nerd then I thought I was....

[smjjames]

Demurig sounds closer to Demiurge, which is a powerful demon or something.

[Rozenbuddy]

Your art skills are significantly improving every drawing I see that you draw...
I approve.

[Fault]

Your art skills are significantly improving

aww, thanks

Demurig sounds closer to Demiurge, which is a powerful demon or something.

I think demiurg is the greek word for Craftsman actually
I got the word form warhammer 40k, its the name of a dwarf-like race allied with the tau

Heh, I recognize Cacame's hammer

Nah, thats just any old ordinary hammer. Cacame's hamer is a two-hander with a blade on the end that gets longer and more prominent every time I draw it 

[HAMMERMILL]

Demurig sounds closer to Demiurge, which is a powerful demon or something.

I think demiurg is the greek word for Craftsman actually
I got the word form warhammer 40k, its the name of a dwarf-like race allied with the tau

Yeah.

Dwarf: Standard Mountain Dorf.
Dwarrow: Wild-eyed "hill" Dwarf.
Duergar: Spooky, psionic, evil dorfs with grey skin. (Probably abducts the "hill" dwarves")
Demiurg: Re-packaged Squats from the WH40K world.

I think, at least.

[Fault]

I'm not so sure about the last two...

Dwarf: standard mountain dwarf

Dwarrow: wilder hill dwarves (closer to the earth? gypsy magic?)

Deurgar: there should be some kinda evil dwarf race (white skin and black beard?)

Demiurg: some kinda forigner Indian-looking race (the sikhs have nice beards)

[HAMMERMILL]

I'm not so sure about the last two...

Dwarf: standard mountain dwarf

Dwarrow: wilder hill dwarves (closer to the earth? gypsy magic?)

Deurgar: there should be some kinda evil dwarf race (white skin and black beard?)

Demiurg: some kinda forigner Indian-looking race (the sikhs have nice beards)


The Dwarrow should be the Dwarves that just don't live in a proper mountain biomes. They build their settlements out in the hills, plains, forests, swamps and deserts, Humie cities, whatever. Crusty, shitkicking, rebellious, rural farmer types. They are at home wherever a pickaxe can turn the earth and are satisfied with the fruits of the labor their calloused hands produce from the soil or bedrock... Their labor and their work assures their prosperity no matter where they strike the earth. (So wondering gypsy/ viking nomad types, yeah, just that they carve out proper bedrooms and stockpiles wherever they decicde to settle for the next few decades.)

Deurgar: they could be something like the "Deep Dwarves" or "Dark Dwarves" that are popular round here and have completely adapted to a very hostile enviroment deep underground. They worship demons and gods of wealth and military cunning. Pasty skinned, cave-adapted, dark beards and soul-less cataracts on their eyes that have typically seen nothing but "darkvision/ infrared" all of their lives. Perhaps they are the forgotten ancestors of teams sent into the seemingly bottomless pits sent to bring gold and wealth to their mountainhomes but were never to be heard from again. With this mission in mind, the dwarves dug into the riches of the underworld and produced, but with no contact with the world besides the hellish residents of their current abode they adopted a militarist and smash-first-eat-later culture not unknown in traditional dorfen circles, In the lightless, evil enviroment these dwarves have trained their senses and minds to deal with horrors and sensory deprivation completely alien to other dwarves.

Demiurg: These are a subtype of enlightened and exceptional dwarves, mysteriously drawn from those dwarves in fey moods, or some say possessed by forces unknown. that live in the most isolated and hostile of lands. Perched high on the most isolated of mountain peaks or far within the interior of the barren glacier wastelands of the poles. They are a small faction of scattered dwarves, said to be sorcerers and possibly immortal dwarves. They speak in obscure or ancient toungues and weild magic without a second thought, they might wear the uniforms of the soldiers from ancient armies and the expeditions perished in their harsh environes or wear the artifacts of long-forgotten kings.... (These Dwarves might somehow draw mass migration into their hostile hellholes to create a settlement... for reasons unknown to all but them)



Or something. The Demiurg you outlined makes me think of the Afghan sorcerer or guide in the movie "The Objective" in that they live in the middle of nowhere in some cave, in terrifying/evil/ inhospitable biomes... not even a Dwarrow would consider settling in. Intentionally isolated and holding some contempt for the world they have traveled so far to escape so many decades ago.