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*sigh*... sooo many jokes for that. But Brandon's an all-ages kinda writer, so I treat his boards as an all-ages environment.

That's pretty cool. Koloss swords could be bigger... really, they're an opportunity to be like, Final Fantasy big.

Of course they don't have to be interpreted that way. But a full-grown koloss is about 10-12 feet tall and they're swords are large even to them, I would say a 7-8 foot sword length is entirely reasonable. Those appear to be about 5 ft, which is extra large for human scale but a toothpick to something that more or less looks like a deep-dark-blue version of The Incredible Hulk with the skin splitting around the muscles.

I'm sure. I don't understand.

Virtual environments allow for new rules on what can and cannot be done, and how easily.

I made the switch to digital drawing about 5 years ago, and I still can't believe some of the stuff I can do now. Undo alone is a trick that would have made any professional illustrator 20 years ago crap his drawers. Layering adds an outrageous amount of control. Texturing is a whole new art form, it bears practically no relation to what that term would have meant before digital painting became mainstream.

It's no surprise that the same thing is happening with digital reading. Thanks mostly to the internet, the factors are finally in alignment; sufficient saturation of content (the Net) + familiarity with the format (because everyone's gotten used to reading on a screen thanks to the Net) + affordable, effective platforms (kindles, nooks, smartphones, touchpads). It's been projected for decades, but it couldn't work until those factors aligned, and now it's finally happening.

The ability to conduct keyword searches alone places the digital text file over the physical book in terms of practicality. Not to mention that you can just about hold the entire Library of Congress in your back pocket (and that qualifier won't be necessary in another five years).

Physicality will hold more value. Quality of content will probably lessen overall, but when it's good it will likely be very, very good... it'll need to be, in order to survive. It'll cost more to own a real book, but maybe less to own a virtual one.

I'm still waiting for someone to start offering a free e-book with the purchase of a real one. Or at least a discount 2-pack.

once again off topic here, but i think you would be good with cover art, ink.

and i too pictured him as tall and black. the earring thing throws me off a bit though.

Terrismen do have a darker skin-tone than skaa. But the range of tones across the entire human race is more homogenous than ours thanks to the Lord Ruler's eugenics.

Aside from Isaac Stewart, who's contributing work on the maps and symbols, I'm the only artist on the Mistborn RPG. Cover and interiors, this part of the book is mine to carry. They made a blog post about it some time ago, but I hadn't really said much about it myself because I'm still in the middle of the work.

I really hope that's good news to most of you... 

"koloss"

Sazed gets koloss-sized when he taps his metalmind, but normally he's at the high end of 6-7 feet. Not freakishly tall, but he stands out in a crowd.

Sorry if I haven't been back to ask for more help guys, but things are proceeding along quite nicely. There's going to be a good bit of Mistborn artwork coming from my corner towards the end of this year.

Nimoy, sure. I can see that. I think of him a bit more in terms of Sazed though, the long features and the slender hands.

I actually have good ref from Brandon on Sazed, but here's a question... is there any example of him in the text wearing spectacles? I have some idea of him in glasses, but I  think that's might something I've just made up in my head with an impression of him as being scholarly.