Morroblivion

Here's the PSD for the comberry: http://www.mediafire.com/download/icvz8bw860jxuuu/comberry.psd

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don't know if there's any use for these, but upload them anyway...

I don't understand what you mean.

I drew them. I tried to make them as close as possible. What about the ones I made for other books?

The printing press as we think of it today. Like Gutenburg's. It's called movable type because, unlike printing that existed before-hand (woodblock printing, which was generally used for art, like what Albrecht Dürer often used), movable type has individual letters which can be arranged with the machine to mass-produce full pages of text much faster than either hand-carving each page (backwards) before printing, or writing each page by hand.

Movable type was instrumental in the advancement of Wester culture, so, considering how technologically advanced the Dwemer were, I figure that they may very well have had it. And an old printed look might look cool for the Dwemer text.

What if I redrew all of mine on a wood texture with the drawings carved in?

Here is my version of Divine Metaphysics 

 

Dwemer Text

I used an alphabetical font to recreate it, but it does not say much.
Even on the WIKI pages they say only a Dwemer would make sense out of this.

Hopefully it’s of use to anyone.

Jeez these are good guys! I wish I could draw like this, the best I can do is a monkey for my profile pic lol

I would love to contribute some illustrations, but unfortunately I don't know how to digitally draw, I'm only good with pencil and paper and I don't know how I'd get that to look the same ink on canvas style the other drawings have.

eloth wrote:

you need a graphics tablet then i suppose

Yup I have one, they work surprisingly well, mine even feels like I'm writing on paper, fairly cheap too, unless you get a really nice one

What do you mean a Dwemer page scanner?

I can scan my illustrations, but it would still look different to the others, perhaps I could edit it on a software to make it look similar.

Figured I would just leave this here. Drew it while being angry over wall colors.

I love the second one.

Thanks for the correction, zilav.

I prefer the second version of Nocturnal, myself.

tommythegun: I could have hit a wrong option in the save tga dialogue; I have no idea what settings should be used for the tgas. I downloaded the first one and it opened fine for me in Gimp, but if you can't open it when you get home I can upload a psd.

robbinsmoth: that map looks fantastic; my opinion might not count for much but as far as I'm concerned, go right ahead and do the rest of the maps. The originals have a more Imperial than Dunmer feel IMO, so yours works nicely. I think those guides are aimed at outlanders (like our beloved Nerevarine :P) and could have been organised by the Imperial colonisation effort. Morrowind used the Dali font extensively on loading screens and such, which has a more alien fantasy vibe, while the labels on the maps seem stock-standard western fantasy (aka Imperial).

Yeah i figured that these maps would be mass printed and distributed (ie woodcut printing press). Less of a handpainted look and more of a stamped feel.

This. Some kind of block printing is a great idea. I was thinking of some poor sod stuck in the back of some Imperial outpost inking each guide one by one :P

I also thought it would be cool, if there were a few unique maps that had scribbles on them, notes or markers that would lead to chests in the wilderness, or weapon caches. Or just plain old 'things'. I never picked these up in Morrowind, but if we give people a reason...

Unique grafittied maps would be awesome. Or a couple of defaced copies of certain books. A map definitely pique my curiosity if I found one. Maybe a map pointing to some hidden-away wonder one of the talented landscapers made that some people might not otherwise find. Smugglers and pirates could carry notes showing their loot caches. With weapon caches the only thing would be balancing a rare find with not hand-holding the player. Maybe some stashes of rare items that aren't weapons/armour or even useful, just things a collector might want to display in their home?

While the Dunmer tend to be less prudish about that sort of thing, it would probably be better to go with the fully clothed because gamers (read, the mothers of relatively young ones ARE). Not to say we should pander to mothers, but Azura has been depicted both ways, so it's not like we're altering her (I would be vehemently against the full robe had she never been depicted that way). I would also day depict her as Dunmer, or perhaps Chimer (Dunmer with Altmer coloration). Head-wise (hehehe, I just realized that's a pun), I like the one currently on her shoulders. Like a stern but loving mother.

Here's the first of my sketches.

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