What's this, drawings?

[tealin]

Done my board! Done my board! Tralalala done my board! To celebrate, I scanned something I drew over the weekend.



As seen in Thud! and The Fifth Elephant (but not as scary in the latter):

Somehow they find a way of being frightening fundamentalists without actually being religious... clever, that.


I just realised that I've probably based my image of the Dark Dwarfs on those sand people from Star Wars, which is something, as I haven't seen that movie more than five times and that was ages ago.

[ducks the hail of rotten veggies from the Star Wars corner]

Comments

Deep down dwarfs

[ianfinerty.livejournal.com]

I really like your design for the deep downers, the second one looks pretty menacing. The scene where they tunnel into the house was one of my favourites from Thud!, it really hightened the tension and showed what i might be like if full out war broke out into the city. It proved that even Vimes, who can usually deal with anything, would not be in control. Scary stuff.
My one critisism would be that the flame thrower dwarfs were described i thik with a non descript helmet which covered their face- something like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/ugluktheurukhai/dwarf.jpg

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I have yet to double-check in the book, but my own train of logic goes like this:
The flamethrower thingies were developed for use in clearing explosive mine gas. The job of clearing explosive mine gas belonged to that elite society of crazies who wanted to do that sort of thing. They adopted layers of protective leather and such to shield them against explosions. As the mine gas clearers would have been the ones to use the flamethrowers, it stands to reason that the flamethrower-users would be wearing the traditional layers of protective leather and such. Yes?

flame thrower dwarfs

[(Anonymous)]

Yes...but the ones who use the flamerthrowers are described thusly:
"The two new dwarfs were covered from head to toe in leather, like Ardent, but wore mail over the top of it; their helmets were quite unadorned, but covered the whole face and head, with only a slit for eyes. Each dwarf carried a large black pack on his back and held a lance in front of him."

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Okeydokey, thanks for the verification.

[okiwan.livejournal.com]

O_o ... uuummmm... okaaaayyyy.

*cough, cough* *interpretation* *cough, cough*