My Kinda Dwarf

Before this year, I had never drawn a Tolkienesque dwarf. It's weird, but I got several commissions for them in 2007. This was warm-up piece that I did to find out how I would like to make a dwarf's figure look. The commissioners were more interested in short muscular human physiques instead. Ah well.



So now I'm making these dwarves play a big part in this personal comic that I'm fiddling with. In fact, young Henry is the adopted human son of a dwarf couple, in the washed-up dwarven boomtown of Hillbarrow. The Hill for short. Young Henry of the Hill.