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for anyone who is looking at this and think they dont look "dwarve" enough; their looks are done on purpose, thank you for all your inputs anyhow.just want to add. thank you everyone, for appreciating my effort into making them a bit different, you guys made me want to cry =]
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good to see a female dwarf without a beard for once
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IΒ΄m pretty much a fan of all your work, but I particularly like this one piece. ItΒ΄s the first female dwarf I've seen in a long while that doesn't look like a boulder with breasts, nor like a twelve-year-old schoolgirl (puajj). In all justice, this one is probably the one with the most merit, since it's a full-body display. The other two (I did say there were few) were either a mug-shot (a character portrait published in dragon magazine issue 278 - december 2000), or upper body (concept art for D&D 4th Ed, kind of dwarven barbarian princess, by Todd Lockwood I believe). And those are both typical D&D: square jaws, long sideburns, somewhat squat builds.
In your defense (which, I may add, I dont think you need), most peolple who complain about dwarf women beign "too graceful", forggett that the lot of female adventurers are depicted as beautiful (or at least hot) and, as a five minute stroll will readyly reveal, that is not the standard for humans. Human female characters tend to represent the heights of physical beauty, why should it be any different for dwarves. Or have you seen many average looking characters in your fantasy books lately?
Any way, your work is great, the anima - anathema concepts look amazing, and in the end we all like beautyful people.
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Awesome work dude. I love how you didn't go to the stereotypical "dwarf" look. Both guy and girl look amazing. I mean who ever said Dwarves have to be short stocky hairy and ugly? Go Wen! You rock and I love your style man.
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Anything short n is a rogue = bad!!!! -points to self- World of Warcraft person lol...there really good!!!! n so is the other ones! my favs are the Vamps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think they look fine for dwarves.
The female is fine in my opinion. As long as she's short and strong, she's a dwarf, right?
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cheers for breaking preconceptions I personally don't like 'dwarven' dwarves
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I think they look bad ass. xD Looking "dwarf" is just a stereotype that must people try to follow, his dwarfs, would be sweet in other things. ^^ They looks mischievous.
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whoa the guy looks kickass and the girl looks pretty! I love the guys axe and the girls hair especially!
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wouldn't want to be cornered in a dark alley by the Dwarf Soldier...
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For a second there I thought that said enema, his battleaxe had me a little worried.
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Those are some of the most awesome dwarves I've ever seen.
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Oooh sweet! Finally a character in your set that I could costume as. (Gonna do a front view of the rogue?) I'm fine with your dwarves stature and design. If you look at your normally lithe artwork, these are much more sturdy looking then most. I'm also totally digging the horn hairstyle on the guy there. The only thing I could say is that your ladies tend to be very similar in face/hair. For a game design this is probably best, but perhaps going with some more varied hairstyles might increase the differences in your female (humanoid) designs. Actually in this one, the back is good. Lots of texture and body. But the front has a smooth almost flat ironed look to it which you use somewhat regularly.
just my 2 cents - not worth nothin though, since it's not cash in pocket.
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Looks great. Like the eastern look of the armour and its nice to see a female dwarf without a beard
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She looks abit more like a halfling
Don't mind my thoughts though! This IS a terrific piece of art, I love it
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These two look great, the proportions look fine to me and major kudos for ignoring the insulting "Fat and dumpy" Dwarf Stereo-type and doing your own take on them. Trust me these two rock, and I draw Dwarves all the time (come have a look!). I love their hair and I adore the female!
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Oh God, you're... I've never seen dwarves like this before (as you can guess) and I find them (amazing, of course and as usual) interresting due to their look and their... er... missing beard.
Unusual and awesome dwarves 
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Personally, I like how these dwarves look. And they look cool.
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thanks man!!! we were really in need of a new view on dwarves, we've got tons of Gimlis.
Great work.
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dwarves, sorry... i meant to say dwarves!!! TT_TT My brain is working on hyper-snail mode again... TT_TT
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Heheh.., always wondered what female elves look like... And now I know... mheheheheh... Nice... Love the armor design, i mean, the design on the armor.., i mean... aww, forget it...
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This is probably one of the slowest comments out there, but... I am a personal fan of these dwarves! As much as I love the sterotypical Male Dwarf, I think your style beats the sterotype out. As for the female. 
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I like the female dwarf. :3 Much better than what I'm used to seeing...and the male doesn't have a beard to his stomach--nice change. XD I've been playing a lot of WoW. I like your differences. 
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Y'know, I'm fine pretty much with the way your femal dwarf looks. The only thing I would change, would to give her a little more meat. She looks to thin. Add a little squish to the woman dwarf!
*squish*squish*
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ermind me of Lineage II *online game* Dwarf character
always great with the detail like usual ^^
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For once some kick ass looking dwarfs. Good work!
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gimli said lady-dwarves had beards....^__^
as always, awesome work!
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the rogue is cuuute! i like your approach to female dwarves, always disliked the idea of them looking like their on steroids (no offense to anyone who actually is on steroids). dunno if it would always work, but it's different. i still wish the guy had a bigger beard...
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siik dwarf rogue
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OMG that's absolutly awesome!!! Amazing work on the coloring and the weapon+armor design ^,^ Oh and I'm absolutly in love with your design of a female dwarf. I think it's great to see a dwarfen lady who's not small and chubby... (or bearded... omg XD) Great work... for the first time I actually WOULD play a female dwarf in a game XD
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Very cool armor designs and posing, but the male dwarf's loin cloth is a bit.... Phallic.
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awsome!!! ya the "dwarf" look has become as overusewd as the elf look.... nice job staying true to their nature while deviating from a steriotype
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I love rogues. A dwarven female rogue is very hot indeed.
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Neh.... Both actually look very dwarf-like!
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The male is great. It actually look like a dwarf.
The female is completely off though.
It's not cause it is a female that you have to make it look like a human.
She should be shaped aproximatively like him.
..though I feel like repeating what other peoples have already said.
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as soon as i saw this i thougt "finally a sensible dwarf female" 
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i want to see a comic :___ ( your art work is to good for a game... wont stop me from loving the game though
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=O That's like the first time I've ever seen a female dwarf..O_O Bravo!!! XD
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i don't see the the girl being attracted to that male, they look too different to be the same race.
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I'm not even sure why some people consider these dwarves "unusual"... they look about right to me, and rendered with your usual awesome stylings.!
Okay, sure... the girl doesn't look like a walking brick. Rather, from the side, like a shortish human girl. By showing her in profile, it diminishes your ability to show girth or density, so she does come across as a little lightweight. But then, she's a rogue and looks kind of young... why shouldn't she be lightweight?
I think there are two sides... some would say, "Why can't dwarves look more like people, younger, sharper?" On the other hand, even humans from one region can have traits that make them look totally different than folks from another... so why shouldn't Dwarves, a whole other race, have such traits (looking thick, old, etc...)?
And then there's the 3rd consideration, which maybe renders the debate pointless. Could it be that cute/hot female character designs just sell more video games? : )
Again, just out of curiosity, on this project do you ever get requests from your employers to sex it up a bit? Add some boobs, make ordinarily unattractive races look more attractive, etc... ?
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Quite reminded of Dungeons and Dragons, lmao.
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hehe, i like the sharp contrasts that u can create for ur chars!
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