an encounter on the keep rooftop (Patreon)

i've canonized riffin into the fiction with a one-off line about him fingering tourmaline at a party (as something that doesn't count against being a virgin) and wanted to draw it. and it was an excuse to think about high society dwarf party clothes. shocker: they are the most revealing of all! tourmaline will have taken off her loincloth for The Fingering but a single silk sash tied to reveal a lot of skin while covering the breasts and genitals would be very fashionable. covering breasts was introduced by humans, but only high society dwarves care about it, and they all do it regardless of sex because they all develop breast tissue. on the flip side, middle-lower class dwarves don't care Because they all develop breast tissue. anyone can be topless and it's fine.

i've also been thinking a little about dwarf language because i've established that they don't do gender exactly like humans, and that they prioritize your job/position over your sex. so their language probably doesn't have pronouns like english, but would instead use proper nouns and profession to refer to people. 

and then i got to thinking, while they don't divide themselves by sexual characteristics or into male/female, they might by personality type. makeup and jewels and nice clothes are for anybody, but how you wear them would still indicate something about you and your preferences. so you would have dwarves like tourmaline, very bright, very flashy, to indicate that she's a jewel to be coveted and protected. and then you'd have dwarves like riffin or angre, who go simpler, more muted, more earthy, to indicate a connection to the stone that protects jewels. and both of them have cunts, and that's completely normal. 

anyway it's weird as hell to draw riffin with long hair and no freckles. it's like he's not even riffin