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[Balathustrius]

OmnipotentGrue - thanks man.  I'll count that a vote for #2, then.


I was bored, so I started drawing heads, as is my way.  It turned into faux-concept art for DF races. 




It's even got a logo!

And the grissaile sketches, which I somehow like better than their colored counterparts:

[Rose]

Yeah, the color ones look rather plastic compared to the grey ones.

I blame the highlights.

[Balathustrius]

Yeah, the color ones look rather plastic compared to the grey ones.

I blame the highlights.

Well, that's, uh, actually the look I was going for.  I love that style of painting; that sort of Leyendecker-esque simplification and caricaturization.  So the 'plastic' look is intentional. 

I meant I liked the b&w sketches because they have a little bit more personality.  Sketches almost always do, though.

[Flying Dice]

I've read through most of this thread, and am completely in awe of some of you. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to make a little contribution. I'm a completely talentless hack when it comes to drawing anything living, so I drew a mountainhome the way I tend to imagine them: drenched by rain, under a dying red sun.

Here ya go

[Gatleos]

...Are those tentacles or miasma down there? o_o

Those would be vortices of purple light. I always imagined them as translucent purple tentacle/flame things.

[Organum]

That picture is so wonderful.

[Urist Imiknorris]

...Are those tentacles or miasma down there? o_o

Those would be vortices of purple light. I always imagined them as translucent purple tentacle/flame things.

Basically this

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

but purple.

[Gatleos]

Basically this

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

but purple.

Then replace the pirates with demons.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Replace them with the Ing.

[Farmerbob]

Gatleos, that is awesome.  I spent way too long looking at it.


Some sketches follow.  I was thinking I might paint a dragon, so I'm playing around with some designs.

Nice stuff!

I must say that I prefer either 4 or 6.  One of the things I've never really understood about how people tend to draw dragons, especially animal dragons that don't have magic to change shape is that they are friggin huge and to support the metabolism to allow them to actually move around reasonably, they are going to hunt out territory quickly, and eventually everything left is going to learn to hide in caves or move really, really fast.

To survive, dragons would almost certainly have to evolve mouthparts and feeding habits a lot like woodpeckers.  Except they would dig out soil and chip out stone with their "beaks" and use their tongue to grab out those tasty bipeds or bears or whatever happens to have hidden down in the particular cave they are digging out.

So a elongated snout with a rockbreaking tip, a really long tongue, and a powerful set of front shoulders and a strong neck.

[Balathustrius]

Farmerbob, that is a thought-provoking critique.  Thank you. 

I sort of assumed that dragons just survived off sacrificial virgins or something, but as a long term strategy I suppose that really wouldn't be viable. 

[Dante]

The comparison of bears and dragons to grubs and woodpeckers respectively.

+1 hilarious.

[Thief^]

I've read through most of this thread, and am completely in awe of some of you. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to make a little contribution. I'm a completely talentless hack when it comes to drawing anything living, so I drew a mountainhome the way I tend to imagine them: drenched by rain, under a dying red sun.

Here ya go

I like this.

[xordae]

A couple of quick ones (well, not as quick as I'd like).

Spoiler: An Electrum and blue stuff artifact axe (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Your average Adamantine Shortsword (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Bow got in the way of his photo pose (click to show/hide)

[Ahra]

Gatleos, that is awesome.  I spent way too long looking at it.


Some sketches follow.  I was thinking I might paint a dragon, so I'm playing around with some designs.

no 5 looks best to me.