[art] Heavy Load & Sneaking Orcs

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Hey, I thought: what the heck, why not post new artwork here as well? I'm spamming two dozens of internet places, so why omit our own?
here are two latest pieces from our fellow Santi. I left original titles intact.

[TorbenBeta]

I like the two, especially the sweat in the first picture.
Two questions:
1) What is the script on the crate in the first picture?
2) Does the orc who is silencing the others with his index, look kind of monkey-like in the face?

[snowdrop]

I like the two, especially the sweat in the first picture.
Two questions:
1) What is the script on the crate in the first picture?
2) Does the orc who is silencing the others with his index, look kind of monkey-like in the face?

1) Script is fugazy and means whatever you want it to mean, which kind of makes it even better

2) Yes, he does. But it's a Gobo. Then again, so do many of the BfW Orcs and Gobos, which ours are modelled after (especially our Orcs). They differ in looks compared with the Orcs found in LotR or WarCraft (which are copies from Warhammer which in return are copes from LotR?)

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As for all this pseudo-mythology (or common ground of SF/Fantasy literature) - this is a huge, really huge pile of cruft one has to grab somehow. Goblins are almost everything - from small green creature with big ears from British fairy tales, through LoTR (Tolkien's) hobbit synonym for orc, LoTR (movie) orc's close relatives, monkey-like creatures (Gothic), but usually those are brutal, coward, stupid green small creatures, dirty, filthy and evil. So quite close friends with gnomes (again - in some approaches, not in all).

Now, I think our world not somehow restricted to any major world and we can create some small things on our own. Of course there is Wesnoth heritage we keep, but the question "what's beyond?" is quite open.

As for the monkey-looking guy - I really like it. Take an old skinny man, let him do like that and he will look really similar