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LOTR:LCG Alt Art Dwarves – featuring art by Nick Keller: Gloin (Leadership) Hero
I have intentionally not released many alt art Dwarves so far as I have been working on this series for over half a year, as I first mentioned this project in an October post.
My goal was to create alt cards with a unified artistic style and look befitting a Dwarf Swarm using most of the major named dwarves in LOTR:LCG.
The challenge was finding a way to make each dwarf appear both individually distinctive, yet similar enough in style to look matched in a swarm. There were at least 24 unique dwarf cards I wanted to do this for.
And of course, they all had to look like Middle Earth/Tolkien Dwarves….
Enter Nick Keller – the incredibly talented concept artist behind the dwarf armor used in The Hobbit trilogy feature films of 2012-2014. I have taken Nick's released illustrations, and formatted them for LOTR:LCG card size using my “full bleed promo” style templates for both Heroes and Allies. I have also created Messenger of the King (MOTK) contract hero variants of Dwarf allies.
Many of Nick’s pieces used in this series have had extensive work done on backgrounds and character repositioning to frame them well not only on their individual card, but also in alignment with all the other dwarf cards in this alt art series.
If Nick gave a Dwarf a name on the artwork, that is the name of the Dwarf on the card bearing that art. There was no swapping or substitution on these. However, I also utilized a few of Nick's “generic” dwarves as alternates for named Dwarves - for example, the second version of Bombur.
I’ll release these roughly once a day. I generally use the day before each release doing extensive final proofing of the released card. I always find last minute minor text, placement, positioning, clarity, or bleed edge items I want to touch up.
These Dwarves fit my more “combat ready” style of alt art, and I think they look really good together. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed creating them!
Alt Art Card Notes:
First in the series is Glóin, father of the famed Gimli from LOTR.
LOTR:LCG Alt Art Dwarves – featuring art by Nick Keller: Gloin (Leadership) Hero
I have intentionally not released many alt art Dwarves so far as I have been working on this series for over half a year, as I first mentioned this project in an October post.
My goal was to create alt cards with a unified artistic style and look befitting a Dwarf Swarm using most of the major named dwarves in LOTR:LCG.
The challenge was finding a way to make each dwarf appear both individually distinctive, yet similar enough in style to look matched in a swarm. There were at least 24 unique dwarf cards I wanted to do this for.
And of course, they all had to look like Middle Earth/Tolkien Dwarves….
Enter Nick Keller – the incredibly talented concept artist behind the dwarf armor used in The Hobbit trilogy feature films of 2012-2014. I have taken Nick's released illustrations, and formatted them for LOTR:LCG card size using my “full bleed promo” style templates for both Heroes and Allies. I have also created Messenger of the King (MOTK) contract hero variants of Dwarf allies.
Many of Nick’s pieces used in this series have had extensive work done on backgrounds and character repositioning to frame them well not only on their individual card, but also in alignment with all the other dwarf cards in this alt art series.
If Nick gave a Dwarf a name on the artwork, that is the name of the Dwarf on the card bearing that art. There was no swapping or substitution on these. However, I also utilized a few of Nick's “generic” dwarves as alternates for named Dwarves - for example, the second version of Bombur.
I’ll release these roughly once a day. I generally use the day before each release doing extensive final proofing of the released card. I always find last minute minor text, placement, positioning, clarity, or bleed edge items I want to touch up.
These Dwarves fit my more “combat ready” style of alt art, and I think they look really good together. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed creating them!
Alt Art Card Notes:
First in the series is Glóin, father of the famed Gimli from LOTR.