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[Spitfire]

Gongratz KharBevNor, to your great work!

[Fen]

I honestly found myself singing aloud to the dead dwarfs alphabet. It was highly amusing and well done! I especially liked the massive engraving in the well room.

[Mephansteras]

Well done, indeed!

[Tiruin]

Amazing

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.

So there is hope with me and GIMP and/or Photoshop! Yay!

[k33n]

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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I love it!

And yeah, I use a wacom bamboo and Photoshop elements. I've never heard of anyone using more then one stylus.

[KharBevNor]

I actually have two pens for my Bamboo. This is because I lost my pen, and was forced to buy another one off the internet (slightly cheaper than buying a new Bamboo), because I needed the tablet urgently for university work. I then, naturally, found the other pen two weeks later. The new pen is actually nicer to use than the old one, in my opinion (this one instead of this one), so it sort of works out in the end. For years I used an Intuos 1, and though I miss the area and the double-ended pen, the Bamboo outstrips it completely in terms of actual drawing. It's amazing how good and cheap tablet technology has become.

[Farmerbob]

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Bravo, I love the woodcut look with the rhyming

[Julien Brightside]

The alphabet of dead dwarves, brilliant I say.

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[reality.auditor]

Ooh, ......... again.

[smjjames]

I thought 9dots art stuff had a mouseover blurb? At least the ones in 'draw my adventures' did.

[PDF urist master]

this is one of the most creepy fanarts i've ever seen

[Farmerbob]

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I'm getting a feeling of possession or elemental power here.  The cloud over the head makes it seem more elemental, but could also be an indication of possession since this is a visual medium?

Is this fellow supposed to be a husk, a possessed dwarf, a dwarf in a fell mood?

I'm thinking fell mood, it just feels darker, but not raw or chaotic enough to be a husk?

[smjjames]

Looks like he is getting electrocuted or something.

[DG]

No, he's just really really cold.