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Not me crafting the Hammer of Glory in my laundry room! (Actually, yes. I indeed am doing that.)

I'll be headed to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire for the Vikings weekend, hopefully that Saturday the 6th, but if it thunders or rains, I'll be going for the 7th. And just because, I'm making the Hammer of Glory to carry around while I'm there. Because why the fuck not? I've been looking for an excuse to create this thing for so long.

I've only got the very base of the head done right now. Tomorrow I'll bevel the edges, and start on the detailing. I also need to grab more foam for the sides because this took up like an entire roll and a half of my EVA foam.

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Ok my ADHD is horrible, I have a million projects underway, but based on my latest, I now have the idea to do a miniature diorama of the Gloryhammer-verse characters fighting Zargothrax. Mind you I have a miniature diorama already in progress for something else entirely. Hence this idea. But I should finish the first before starting another. But fuck it's tempting!

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I realized I never posted this. Changing that right now.

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OK but what if...

Hoots went to California not because there was nothing to conquer in fantasy!Scotland any longer, but because the barbarians of Unst were done with their king (who literally can't die unless he blows himself up???) and wanted to get him off the island. Preferably forever. Because otherwise they'd have to deal with this problem for centuries to come.

Imagine a king who won't die. You send in ceiling ninja assassins, and he uses their weapons as toothpicks later during the mighty feast (which they are also attending, as honoured guests; they're practically best friends of the Kingdom of Unst now???). You try to poison the king's food and mead, and he's just Rasputin-ing the whole thing. He's eating the 10th pastry tonight and wants to buy your whole mead supply! He says it has a sort of ''zing'' to it, he likes. You subtly mention that "a king should have at least one heir* named by now", and he just waves you off because what the hell does he need a heir for?

And you can't even kick him out, because he'll just laugh about it, beat your ass and then laugh some more!

So, you find the strongest professional village drunk out there who can get your king drunk enough so he'd listen to every stupid idea somebody throws him, and then, once the drunk has passed out under the table in booze-coma, you're like: ''Hey, man, I heard there's kingdoms over the sea that are in need of a king. Imagine if anyone, like, went over there. There's probably a lot of mighty, dangerous quests to do, to be called the king, so that guy would have to be very strong and powerful! Hey, Hoots, I wonder if you could best them all?!" - "Hmm, I don't know, I like it here! With you, guys!" - "I hear there's places there, you don't have to wear a shirt all year round." - "Wait, really?"

And two days later your king is off. Finally. That'll take him a few years, and maybe he'll like it so much over there that he'll never come back.

*you cannot and will not persuade me that this man doesn't fuck he's probably the Genghis Khan of the GH-verse, progeny-vise

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For anyone else who wants Photoshop WITHOUT USING Photoshop, I'll slide this your way. ;) Helping out fellow artists is my passion. <3

I do all my digital work in Photoshop. I always have, as that's what I was taught in my many many years of art school. It seems intimidating if you've never used a digital art program before, but I promise that once you learn one, you've got a damn good grasp on literally all of them. They each have different layouts, slightly different functions, but mostly the exact same features.

And trust me. If you can master Photoshop, you've mastered digital art programs as a whole.

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

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RETURN OF THE KNIFE OF EVIL

yes it returned🔥🔥

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So I'm truly not the best at drawing people. Honest to the gods, I've always struggled with that, and it's what nearly made me quit art all together. Therefore I'm taking a bunch of stock photos, and tracing them so I can eventually refit them for the characters accordingly.

Each character will have a background in the pane suited for them.

I've broken these up to make each pane fit for the exact board size I have. The four in the middle are 2 x 5 boards, then Zarggy is about 8 x 3 boards, and Robot Prince about 8 x 4 boards.

The primary reason I did this is because I can then create each pane individually, then fit them to the frame separately, thus making the overall creation much easier to manage and complete. I can save myself so much hassle by breaking it into smaller bits at a time versus one huge thing all at once.

Being disabled sucks ass, but hey, I get tons of time to make art. And tbh before disability, that's all I ever wanted to do, anyway!

So I'm making a fake stained glass Gloryhammer window using perler beads. I'm working on designs for it all.

I'm gonna have 4 panes in a 2x2 fashion with Angus, Hootsman, Ralathor, and Ser Proletius, while the top will be a wide pane of the Robot Prince in a godly imagery, and the bottom with a second wide pane depicting Zargothrax in his chaotic wrath.

I have no idea where I'll put this. I haven't even hung perler Tooley yet.

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So I'm making a fake stained glass Gloryhammer window using perler beads. I'm working on designs for it all.

I'm gonna have 4 panes in a 2x2 fashion with Angus, Hootsman, Ralathor, and Ser Proletius, while the top will be a wide pane of the Robot Prince in a godly imagery, and the bottom with a second wide pane depicting Zargothrax in his chaotic wrath.

I have no idea where I'll put this. I haven't even hung perler Tooley yet.

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NGL, the end of the ‘Return to the Kingdom of Fife’ had us like

(Ralathor fucks off to the past after the Goblin Lord Encounter, so… no Ralathor)

was @electricpentacle​‘s idea

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:)

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One arm of Plushie Prince of Auchtertool is sewn!!!

I'm taking this slowly, just sort of freehanding the pattern as I go along.

I finally have time to make this dude now that I got the enormous commission out of the way.

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I completely forgot, but uhhh happy new year y'all! Here's to another year of hoping the band comes to the USA at a time I can go see them finally.

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I mean I haven't done anything with the original since I shifted to this one ages ago. It's just sort of a placeholder. I namely use that account to backup side blogs now, but that's it.

But also hell yeah another GH fan!! Glad you found this tiny corner of weird. I'm gonna be making a Robot Prince plushie hopefully this coming week!! (I had a commission to finish first which was unrelated.) Then it's onto designing the perler bead stained glass style mural of the characters!

@polish-hungarian-cw-real @polish-lithuanian-cw-real @denmark-norway-real @koenigreich-preussen-real @deutsches-kaiserreich-real @empire-russia-real @liberalsarecool @angus-mcfife-xiii-of-dundee-blog @angus-mcfife-of-dundee

thank you for your input, your suggestions have been added to the database

(creator added: history book called, it wants it's dead countries back)

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Funny enough, the last 2 are both me. The 1st of them is my old blog I've been meaning to deactivate but haven't for years. It was the original of this one from way back in my high school years (yikes, I think that makes the blog almost 10 years old in that case). I had no idea I could make side blogs at the time on Tumblr, so I just made a wholeass new account instead.

Anyway! I guess the gimmick blog picked up because Gloryhammer's universe has named its different lands off Scotland. Rip. Not actual history (and probably for the best reasons).

@polish-hungarian-cw-real @polish-lithuanian-cw-real @denmark-norway-real @koenigreich-preussen-real @deutsches-kaiserreich-real @empire-russia-real @liberalsarecool @angus-mcfife-xiii-of-dundee-blog @angus-mcfife-of-dundee

thank you for your input, your suggestions have been added to the database

(creator added: history book called, it wants it's dead countries back)

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he’s a sorcerer, he’s in a dress, and he will bring the kingdom to its knees

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Someone on reddit has transcribed all the Robot Prince HUD text

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I made a wraparound record cover for a powermetal album that (unfortunately) doesn't exist!

If you've listened to Maleficus Geminus, you likely know my rage at the death of the robot prince of auchtertool. Well, what if we could rebuild him? The front cover of this album features my (tentative and incomplete (i was on a deadline! sue me)) design of the robot prince of auchtertool, post-battle and mid-resurrection.