#fantasydwarf

My Dwarf, SoftBark

Hey peeps! Here's the winner of my Patreon's January's inkwork art poll, "something fantasy inspired." For this piece, I decided to make a fan-art image of the popular Dragon Age character Varric Tethras, the roguish Dwarf! Unintentionally got a bit of George C. Scott energy in this version of him, but I think it works!

Dragon Age has jumped around radically in terms of mechanical focus, artistic direction, and general vibes from one game to the next. Throughout the series, the only consistent element seems to be a general sense of "smarminess in the face of doom" in the writing, which is captured nowhere as purely as in Varric, from DA2! I hear a lot of hate for Dragon Age II, but it's honestly my favorite of the series. Its endlessly repeated dungeon design grew tiring immediately, but I definitely preferred its limited narrative scope, pulp-fantasy vibes, and its extreme artistic aesthetics- all huge breaths of fresh air from the first game, which were tragically watered down with pseudo-realism and an over-extended narrative again for the third.

Collections of axes I just finished in prep for a larger client piece.