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[Girlinhat]

A simple challenge.  Do art.  Embody your fortress into creative powers.  Create, breathe life, give form.  Produce, in your plot of dirt that your little drunken midgets defend with their lives, something worth seeing.

It doesn't have to be a fantastic architectural feat, or any display of how many native gold blocks you mined out.  Nor does it have to be a show of military might or of bloodshed (though allowed).  Simply produce something that holds some degree of artistic merit, either in landscape panorama, majestic construction, personal emotion, or a moving image of one dwarf's actions.

All mediums and types allowed, be that filthy ASCII screenshots or dirty stonesense captures.  Preferably NOT hand-drawn images, although always worth seeing and definitely welcome on this thread, the purpose is more to use the fortress itself as art, not your pencil/stylus/brush/whatever.

[Mitchewawa]

Skyscrapes is the nicest looking fortress I've ever seen. And it's looking for an overseer to replace the lazy overseer who forgot about his turn.

[MagmaMcFry]

I'll just put a link to PreD here.

[Wayward Device]

Hmm, I have been working on a 25z high coarse iron fist for my Duke to live in, may have to finish it now... The rings are going to be a real bitch though.

[Indricotherium]

Not sure if its art but here's Tooltrumpets:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-10572-tooltrumpetsquasqueton

My first 'megaproject'. Essentially I wanted to recreate the dungeon of Quasqueton from D&D module B1 - Into the Unknown. Old school D&D fans may recognize. I do regret smoothing the walls now as I realised the overall plan was so much more visible with the old rough walls.

The fortress is 7 years older now, I'll try and upload it again tonight, with many more of the modules features completed as well as new construction of the newer, deeper, separated fortress (building off the module's mention of a ruined watch tower on the nearby hill).

[thegoatgod_pan]

An mspaint rendering of a fell mood:

I suppose it can also be read as a scathing commentary on oppressive dwarven justice, fickle nobles and heavy-handed captains of the guard, but I was thinking of fell moods.

[Wayward Device]

I suppose it can also be read as a scathing commentary on oppressive dwarven justice, fickle nobles and heavy-handed captains of the guard, but I was thinking of fell moods.

Or as one of the illustrations form the dwarven training manual "Fortress Guarddwarfship for Dummies". I imagine it coming from section 2:What to Do After Identifying the Criminal,

[Loud Whispers]

I genned a very, very beautiful world if that counts
_{OH GOD THE EVERYTHING IS VAPORIZING}

That aside, there was a dome I made, gilded with precious metals (modded in). I'll try find it.

[Chilton]

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[MagmaMcFry]

Chilton and thegoatgod_pan, this is the wrong thread. You're looking for the DF Fan Art thread. Art from paint programs goes there. This thread is for art drawn in DF.

[Chilton]

Chilton and thegoatgod_pan, this is the wrong thread. You're looking for the DF Fan Art thread. Art from paint programs goes there. This thread is for art drawn in DF.

Well, with all due Respect, Art doesnt tend to imply Artitecture

"All mediums and types allowed, be that filthy ASCII screenshots or dirty stonesense captures.  Preferably NOT hand-drawn images, although always worth seeing and definitely welcome on this thread, the purpose is more to use the fortress itself as art, not your pencil/stylus/brush/whatever."
Im afraid Im going to have to quote the OP here.
Definitely Welcome On This Thread.
Forgive Me if I decided to not go with the implied Favor. This is not the Wrong Thread. And that was not Fan Art, in that context. It was a Depiction. The Screenshot is far less interesting.

Ill edit the post out, regardless. I couldnt be bothered debating. I am, however, not exactly at fault.

[MagmaMcFry]

Actually, nothing I said technically conflicted with anything you said. You're always welcome to post painted pictures here (Yours looks very nice, by the way), but I think that they would be more appreciated in the Fan Art thread.

[Chilton]

Actually, nothing I said technically conflicted with anything you said. You're always welcome to post painted pictures here (Yours looks very nice, by the way), but I think that they would be more appreciated in the Fan Art thread.

Ah - In that case, I may have Misread Your Intent

[MagmaMcFry]

BUMP

[King DZA]

Spoiler: Burial chambers (click to show/hide)

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Gorerape's burial chambers. It may be hard to tell(had to zoom out quite a bit to get it all), but it is slowly filling with iron sarcophagi, each overlooked by a statue made of whatever stone was available at the time. I find it to be a somber yet beautiful picture, depicting the cost of nearly a decade of progress. Especially looking back at what it looked like in it's early years:

Spoiler: Early burial chamber (click to show/hide)