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Thanks, headless. It is stange to look at the picture with a different computer. The colours are all a little bit different…
Anyway… Here is my hair design for the contest.
Okay… Here is what my tired mind came up with yesterday after first going to watch the Hobbit and then coming home and watching Dances With Wolves on telly. I somehow started to think what kind of a story you might get from using the story elements from the Western in a story set into a fantasy world.
Dwarfs would replace the Sioux/Lakota tribe (the “good Indians”), orcs/goblins would – of course – be the Pawnees (the “bad Indians”), Kicking Bird would be the dwarf king and Stands with a Fist an elven girl rescued by dwarfs from their common enemy. I’m not yet sure who Dances with Wolves would be, probably a human ranger…
Oh, and while I openly identify the sources of my inspiration here, I don’t believe this is a copy-violation because dwarfs and elves and orcs are pretty universal nowadays, and the story line I’ve been using from Dances with Wolves isn’t really that original in the first place.
I’m surprised no one has told me yet that it has been done. Foolish me! It was done by R. A. Salvatore, of all writers! Only he had a human woman and an elf ranger. And not just an elf ranger, but a dark elf ranger. I realized this about ten seconds after I turned my computer off last night, but was too tired to turn it on again so I could point it out.
It still escapes me why I didn’t think of Bruenor – Catti-Brie – Drizzt combination being essentially the same than the idea I had. Geez, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewind Dale Trilogy, so I should have noticed sooner. Oh, well, it is still not copyvio, because as I said the story line I’m thinking is not that original…
Here is an updated picture.
Vol. #3. I’ve started zypping the pic (and started to regret choosing to do so!), but I’m not half done yet. Current number of layers is 250 and counting…
Okay. Uhm… This is the current (and could be the final) version of that elf-dwarf image I’ve been working on… Current number of layers is 406, which is my new record (almost doubling the previous one, which was something over 200) and over 280 of those are only used for zypping…
Note to self: do not do zypping on any Sandokan pictures ever!.
EDIT: I apparently can’t stop tinkering with this image. Now there is 410 layers!
After noticing that we have OCD today, I put this out here even when it is not really ready. I’ve seen some amazing cover designs around HM lately, and decided to try one for Sandokan set… Currently I’m working on the missing faces and thinking if I should add some kind of decorative element between the blue and black background elements.
This is something I’ve wanted to do with HM3 for a long time. Finally got to try it…
There is this old Finnish song (I think it was our Eurovision song contest entry way back before I was even born, or something) I remember from very young age. It is called “Neidonryöstö” (literal translation would be something like “Abducting a Maiden”) and tells a story of two riders trying to escape. Here is my very bad attempt to translate the lyrics of the chorus, which acted as the inspiration for the following image:
“Two horses are crossing the stream
Two riders are growing tired
Maiden’s hand touches him
Silent man laughsTwo horses are crossing the stream
One way, one morning
The water splashes in the stream
Land shines in midsummer”
EDIT: Okay, if I said my translation was bad, this is even worse!
EDIT2: Here is an alternate version, with blue sky:
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