Both K33n and Tofu's last pieces are definitely digital. You'd be surprised at what you can achieve with even the most basic tablets; I get fairly good results with my Bamboo, which is absolutely entry level, just working in Photoshop.
I've posted these in a separate thread down in the creative projects forum, but I thought I'd pop them in here as well, where people are more likely to see them. The inspiration for this work came when someone posted Edward Gorey's classic morbid alphabet
The Gashlycrumb Tinies to reddit's /r/dwarffortress under the title, 'a dwarf child's alphabet'. I thought that the idea could stand some dwarfifying, and, after a few versions, limited by the fact that the game's options for Dwarf names indicate the Dwarven alphabet to be of twenty letters (With no H, J, P, Q, W, X or Y, but including a Th). After coming up with the rhyme, it quickly became obvious that I would have to illustrate it, and I set to work. As I completed more and more images, I became more convinced of the appropriateness of the treatment, rendering it as something more than parody. After all, Gorey's original work subverts the normally carefree world of childhood represented by the abecedarium (ABC book) by introducing parental paranoias about the dangers that face their offspring. The Dwarf Fortress version casts the Dwarves as children and the player as the parents, a relationship which I, at least relate to, though which might discomfort some of the more Machiavellian players of the great game. Anyway, here's the pictures as
an imgur album, or, in the cut:
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