Next month I am hosting a new painting challenge, featuring my favorite fantasy race of all time, Dwarfs!!!! This intentionally coincides with Movember, the annual men’s health awareness month during which men (and women, I suppose) grow our moustaches to draw attention to men’s health issues, such as prostate and testicular cancer, both of which are really shitty things to have; as well as mental health issues, such as depression and suicide, also not fun.
I cannot grow a moustache. I mean, I can; but I won’t. I hate facial hair and I can’t abide growing mine for more than a week before I start to itch abominably. I grew it out for a month once and had dreams of burning it off my face with a blowtorch. These dreams were not nightmares. Dwarves, on the other hand, love facial hair; and I love Dwarves, almost to a disturbing degree. Although I can’t (meaning won’t) grow facial hair, I can definitely paint a dwarf. And so can you!
THE “RULES”: What is Dwarvember? Why, it’s the month you paint Dwarfs (or Dwarves), of course. Any Dwarf will do, he or she doesn’t have to be strictly a fantasy miniature, either. Sci-fi Dwarfs are welcome! So grab your Grymn or Squats or Forge Fathers if you want. Come to think of it, drop by Wargames Terrain Workshop and pick up some Cowboy Dwarfs if you like. They’re cool too! Dwarfs may be any scale and from any manufacturer. I will link to your stuff throughout the month, and (if it’s not there already) add your blog/website/social media to the blogroll on the side! If you don’t have a site of your own and still want to participate, I’ll happily host your pictures here and ensure you get proper attribution!
How many Dwarfs you paint is up to you. The minimum is one, of course; but feel free to do as many as you like. The only caveat is that they get painted sometime in November.
I’m gonna hit the pile of shame and see what I can find…I know I’ve quite a few of the short fellows around here somewhere. Hoping to do at least 3, but may end up doing more than that. Who knows?
As for Orctober, I’ve stalled a bit. Only two of the Grenadier set completed so far, with seven more to go. Will I finish by the end of October? Maybe, maybe not.
If you want to participate in Dwarvember, drop me a line here in the comments!
I’m in!
Great! Can’t wait to see what you do with that old classic!
Count me in as well! Got three dwarves already undercoated, let’s see how many I’ll be able to finish.
Happy to have you back!
Not sure mate, is the honest answer, I’ll try and get a couple done (probably Forge Fathers) but depends on time, anyway best of luck with this, I do love me a well painted Dwarf!
Oh and have linked to this post on my blog, by the way.
Cheers Roger.
Thanks, Roger! You are always welcome, of course. I’m a bit surprised…Dwarvember is getting a lukewarm response over on Instagram, too. Oh, well. I need no excuse to paint dwarfs, NOW or EVER!!!!!!
It’s still early, you might get more people joining in as the month gets under way. I mean who doesn’t love a Dwarf (except Luke IRO of course ).
Cheers Roger.
I thought IRO hated elves? I can’t keep up with his fantasy racism…
He hates Elves but isn’t keen on Dwarves either, if there one thing I cant stand it’s casual racism, either put your back into it or don’t bother I say!
Yeah. IRO needs to take a stand. 🙂