doodlin dwarves

I did some character concept sketches on the weekend. I'm trying to arrive a nice blueprint for a dwarf race:



I'll give a shout out to the most excellent 123 Klan since I started out doodling their monkey to warm up my hands; biting it from their wicked grahic design book; a must get!

I was drawing and listening to Ted Talks. I heard "10 ways the world could end - Stephen Petranek (2002)" which listed death by asteroid as a potential end to it all if we don't find a way to
land on them and plant ion boosters to steer them out of the way. This talk reminded me of a recent science ficiton book that I read,
The Mote In God's Eye, about making contact with an alien race that mines asteroids and move them around their solar system.

Originally, I had wanted to base the game on Earth and allows players to dig through the planet to the other side, but now I'm thinking asteroids might be fun way to contain that gameplay and increase believability.