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[Buttery_Mess]

Yeah, nice dwarf.

[bombzero]

Nice karzul, mind giving me a few tips on shading? its an area im so-so at but you did a nice job.

[Farmerbob]

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I drew a troll maiden. She's wearing a troll fur cap, troll fur dress, troll fur hood, troll fur cloak, troll fur trousers, troll fur socks (not visible), troll fur low boots, and troll fur mittens.

Like all trolls I've ever looked at in the game, she is incredibly obese, and as per the description is unshorn and has long white hair all over her body and horns and tusks. Her skin is black. Her eyes are black.

I'm finally convinced I've pinned down what DF trolls are meant to look like in game (when they show up in goblin invasions). I'm not sure if cave trolls wear clothes.

Looks pretty good

I had Toady draw me up a picture of a goblin shearing a troll.  I noticed it looked a lot like Ludo:

Crayon Art

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Ludo:

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Just think - some day Trolls might get spells too, and all those loose rocks lying about might attack your dwarves during seiges.

[FrisianDude]

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I'm sorry.

It represents a goblin snatcher, at night, approximately two seconds before realizing it's caught in a cage trap.

[Tulx]

Very allegorical. I especially like how the pitch black night helps to set the mood with the moonlight shimmering off the goblin's face. Compositionally, the vast dark space that is above and in front of the goblin helps to illustrate the uncertainties and possibilities of life and universe. Will the goblin succeed in rescuing the dwarven children from their atrocious 'childcare' (which includes dodging rabid dogs until the age of 12 as we all know) or will his heroic attempt be in vain?

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I'm sorry too 

[Karzul]

Nice karzul, mind giving me a few tips on shading? its an area im so-so at but you did a nice job.

Of course! I did the image in the GIMP 2 program, and it has a "burn" tool that I used for the shading.
And always do the borders of the shade according to the texture of what you are shading.

[Mike Mayday]

From a different forum:
the relationship between cats and dwarves explained!

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[Raul]

From a different forum:
the relationship between cats and dwarves explained!

Cannot... unsee... it...

[bombzero]

Of course! I did the image in the GIMP 2 program, and it has a "burn" tool that I used for the shading.
And always do the borders of the shade according to the texture of what you are shading.

I use Gimp myself, takes a while but it gives better results than paint 
although i do wish i could afford adobe suite, tired of using scattered 3rd part softwares for animations, coding and drawing. (notepad++ is superior due to having access to almost all coding languages though.)

[Julien Brightside]

GIMP has a burn tool? Where?

[rhesusmacabre]

Here you go:

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You can also colour dodge/burn with other tools by changing the "Mode" dropdown.

[Mike Mayday]

Just to chime in for all those willing to play with dodge/burn- it's generally considered the most bland way of shading. If you take a look at rhesusmacabre's beautiful av, you'll see that the shading changes all three elements of a colour- hue, saturation, value. Dodge/burn doesn't do that.

So my advice- stay away from it unless you've really mastered shading with just the paintbrush.

[rawrcakes]

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I think DF goblins are basically elf-like in appearance and stature, apart from certain features like green skin and scruffy facial hair.

Scruffy? In my headcanon, goblins have this ridiculous technicolor anime hair that is constantly waving a bit, even in the complete absence of wind.



Not that goblin appearance is set in stone or anything. While there is quite a bit of descriptive text in the game, at the end of the day, a goblin still looks like a 'g', and you're expected, nay, required to fill the gaps with your imagination.

daemoria, I like your take on them. Looks exotic.

Am I the only one thinking of David Bowie when I see that goblin? I love it!

Sorry, no contributions of my own. Hopefully, I'll have gotten used enough to my tablet soon to make a stick figure eventually.

[Julien Brightside]

Ah, so that is the dodge/burn tool.
Heh, my GIMp is in a different language, so I just thought it was the "Shadow/lighting" tool.
Though that is what I tend to use.

[Vherid]