2007-01-31 [BlackbirdKate]: Wow OlliLump! These are AMAZING! I have fallin in love with your tipsywock though. He is gorgous. I love the way you draw olli. Kind of like a Jim Henderson character designer. So much detail though. See something new everytime.

2007-01-31 [Cia_mar]: lol you need to have some kind of watermark made so that you can copyright the images yourself... do you have an art program? if not, www.gimp.org is a free one and you can make a watermark signature on it so that your work is protected!

2007-01-31 [Dr.Mandarian]: ^_^ Thanks, Katey. Eh, I am so far satisfied myself as well.
Yes, Tipsywock is a real pithy one. He looks very droll and friendly.
But: Still watch out before that one! He has this and that hidden kind of powers to his appearance. * winks merily *
Ah, my, there yo make me the biggest compliment, possible! Jim Henson. He's my god. - lol -
Ha ha ha, Cia, what you not all have got up your sleeve!
A watermark. That sounds very tricky. Sadly I am totally untalented in using such things, I am afraid. I am the old fashioned pencil drawer. And... technology rather scares me. * laughs *
But you are all sweet. Thanks for all that compliments. It not only made my day, but also make me feel that all this work was worth. 

2007-01-31 [Dr.Mandarian]: Oh, ha ha: HENSON? Or: HENDERSON? Henderson is a YETI isn't he? ^_^

2007-01-31 [Cia_mar]: really the mark is easy to make....
if i can learn how anyone can
if you download gimp, i could walk you through it in no time, then all you have to do is scan your pic, pull it up in gimp, and add a layer, put your mark on it, fade it so it is slightly transparent and viola! you have a copywritten piece of art!

2007-01-31 [Dr.Mandarian]: Sounds good. ^_^ Mh, even if I think I first of all have got to come down again right now. In the very moment I am a bit excited, really.
But... I will still maybe try to deal with that art program household spirit named Gimpy. ;)

2007-01-31 [Cia_mar]: well if you do, you can count on me to help if you need , in taming him to your will... for the most part he is well trained , though i find that you need to save your work often, just incase he and your computer decide to conspire against you to freeze and then lose all the progress you had made on your art

2007-02-02 [Cia_mar]: i think my faves so far are the door and tipsywock!!!!

2007-02-03 [Dr.Mandarian]: I can understand why these are your faves, very well, Cia.
They are among my personal fave's as well.
Tipsywock Brooms is by the way also the official gamesmaster character PC of mine, now.
Who will accompany the adventurer group when it starts.
Also being part of the Classical PC examples of Madrumah info wiki.
There you can even read in more detail about this friendly and calm Talaunian goblin-wight scout - and all his odd and merry little, wondrous friends and companions. ^_^

2007-02-10 [Yncke]: My favourite's the city impression. Definitely!

2007-02-11 [Dr.Mandarian]: Thanks a lot for visiting this modest little wiki of mine, Yncke! ^_^ Yes, that's not bad. I in fact learned the skill to draw old weathered brick-work of stone that looks realistical, due to this piece! Did you already experience that yourself? If you draw that with too straight lines and too 'clean' this does not look real! ( More like just built brand-new from a very pedantical german DWARF with manically obsessed sense for perfectionism )
Mh, but how did you find here, if I may ask, my dear art friend? Maybe because I have 'pumped up the volume' for the link to this gallery in my house lately - from h2 to h1? I only ask because I wanted even more as splendid towners as you, dropping by here! I even dealt with the though briefly, to put that link into 'huge' size, or mark it RED ( but first would be a bit TOO over-acted then, and latter is plainly not possible, because the wiki bracket problem ) * squints with one eye like a self-living chameleon's eye *

2007-02-11 [Dr.Mandarian]: Someone told me lately, that my art would be 'all-sinister'. What made me doubt in worry, really. I like dark Fantasy. But seeming 'all-sinister' in ALL my entire art I ever made is not some idea I would like too much. I hope a lot, that some drawings here speak for the opposite. ( As for example the city impression and 'Tipsywock Brooms' the friendly goblin-wight scout above ) * skims over gallery and is frowned with deep thought * Does Tipsywock for example really approach as 'sinister' to anyone here?

2007-02-11 [Yncke]: Yeah, but since I have a lot more problems with industrial straight lines, it's the new bricks that give me most troubles. :)

How did I find this page? Err... I don't really remember. :$ I doubt it has been the size, because I use a stylesheet that keeps font sizes a bit in pace. (I'm not too fond of huge and bold letters. :) ) I've just taken the time to wander through Elftown for a while, yesterday. Personally, I think that a banner with a text like 'Madrumah Gallery' and a drawing draws far more attention than big fonts.

2007-02-11 [Yncke]: As for that sinister: I'm a bit surprised. I think the drawings are quite cheerful - an aspect I like a lot about them -, which makes it stand out from the tons of dark RPG settings I notice around Elftown.

2007-02-11 [Dr.Mandarian]: Yes, huge fonts used for links like to own galleries... are... rather a bit embarressing, in fact, yes.
Hmmm, but some very good idea, there. I should soon make some BANNER for this gallery, maybe! THANK YOU!
* shines blissfully in moment near to illumination *
And Poof! Thank you. I am relieved to hear that you see the positivity and cheerfulness in this.
Not that I dislike dark Fantasy, I even also have sense for morbid and sinister things, as my love to Hieronymus Bosch and H.R. Giger proofs. But I wouldn't want to lead a rp wiki that would be seen as 'sinister' and only dark. Madrumah shall be a F-world, with at least BOTH. I am some too optimistical and sunny person with too much romantical sense for droll and cheerful fairytales - also like just simple fairytales for children, without any only FAINT motive of brutality and violence.
Yes, there are a lot of very dark RPG around in the moment. While their problem is mostly also in special for my own eyes, that they oftenly are at the same time not very creative. But - There seems to be request. What is maybe not even so bad. People who just want to slay, cuss and follow their lowest drives in RPG are all provided then. While REALLY CREATIVE roleplayers, being also interested in things like riddle solving, inter-action of really indiviual rp characters, team work in a group of PC and challenges of different nature, can maybe find way to the OTHER right places for rp here. ( And I don't only mean mine with those few really demanding rp wikis that still exist and always existed, still, thank the light )
* inspires Yncke with thought to [syagre]'s masterly and amazing Myth of Altaride *

2007-02-11 [Yncke]: I don't mean a bit of dark in the story, I mean the kind of lost-every-single-member-of-family-and-all-friends, oh-I-am-so-evil and the-world-sucks-and-I'm-part-of-the-problem kind of settings. A bit of blood and violence is probably unmissable in a fantasy world, but, in my opinion, it needs some cheer and hope and sunshine too. :)

Hrm. I consider fairytales to be quite brutal. How many ways to execute the evil witch aren't there in the Grimm stories only? ;)

Thanks :)

2007-02-11 [Dr.Mandarian]: Aaah, okay, THAT kind of 'darkness'. Hmm, yes, but this is maybe more part of the community in general, and not so much the problem of RPG settings in the word itself, or is it?
No, I haven't got to say anything against some blood and violence. I even once intendedly made Madrumah more gory, bloody and shady. ( From a first maybe mainly rather more 'tame' appearing F-world ) But yes, hope and sunshine. You just took the words out of my mouth. ^_^
Heh heh, yes I know that. The Grimm's even seem a bit tending to a sickly 'sadistical' kind of imagination, now and then. Not really exactly appropriate for very little children, really. But - Children are still not to under-estimate in their abilities, mental strength and also maybe even in the skill to deal with some dark, frightening and brutal things in some completely own, individual and much straightout way than some adults might should think in a way. My little niece for example somewhen began to LOVE monsters and slightly scary things - along with her more 'normal' personal adoration cult for Winnie Pooh. Mhh, maybe it is then again also genetical. * ponders for a moment *

2007-02-13 [Dr.Mandarian]: Oh, mh, but new bricks are actually easy, aren't they? You only have to use a simple RULER, and some good SET SQUARE as well - ( in cases of doubt )
Or what did you exactly mean what the problem about that would be? I myself am not very good with buildings and architectonic drawings of kinds, no doubt about that, apart from all other. * frowns forehead and looks at Yncke in interest *

2007-02-13 [Yncke]: I don't think fairy tales were meant for children, certainly because the bulk of them was told in a time where children were just little adults. :) But I agree, children like spooky things just like the next grown up, they just still dare to show they are afraid (and have someone to check underneath the bed without laughing).

Well, yeah, but how do you turn that rulered grid into a collection of bricks? I mean, I have difficulties giving it a texture and keep a new look about them. (Buildings are something on my to learn list too.)

2007-12-18 [Galatea]: Awesome artwork! I love the amount of detail!

2007-12-27 [Dr.Mandarian]: Thanks a lot for the compliment, Galatea. ^_^ Happy, that you like the stuff here. And yes, it seems to be part of my style to think with details included. Well, not at last the characters depicted here all come from defined own cultures of my world Madrumah, with a special personal background, as well.