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Balin, lord of Moria

~DrDeath153 May 23, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Your dwarves are getting better and better- where originally they just seemed like accomplished but rather incoherent photoshop collages with elements sourced from everywhere, they're now becoming a serious rival to the Peter Jackson film's official designs. They're still not perfect (for that you would have to step away from predesigned elements) but the 'feel' of them is closer to the original designs done for LotR than the newer ones done for The Hobbit. One little request- i'd love to know who provides the faces with each one. While i can recognise a few, it'd be nice if you could stick that in the description to each piece, but otherwise very very well done

~adlpictures May 23, 2012

thank u very much. I agree with you, it's a job i'm still learnig. And there's very difficult to find the elements i'd like to work with. The faces, well... thee're a few of famous actors, but most of them are friends of mine (lol).

~DrDeath153 May 23, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Nothing from the official hobbit designs got you interested? I'm not much of a fan of most of them, but there are a couple of nice bits- Dori looks pretty fantastic, and Oin and Gloin are dwarves very much in the mould i like, Ori too oddly- i think his look is very characterful and still dwarven, despite being obviously very different to the dwarven archetype. The rest of them i can take or leave. In terms of elements, well my 'file' for dwarven aesthetics has a lot of stuff from the Sami and other native eurasian tribes, a bit of the more eccentric samuri stuff (there's some lovely examples of like lamellar 'panels' which i think could work for dwarves, as well as their bearded masks), and a few of the more complex girls' hairstyles which are good inspiration for beard styles (there are very few men who grow sufficiently long 'dwarven beards', let alone braid and decorate them, so I had to look a bit further afield for inspiration). I would love to see what you can come up with with the benefit of the new film stuff (who knows, maybe even a Kili with a beard!)

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