Posted in Art, Blood Elf, Orc, Tauren on February 28, 2017| 4 Comments »
Occasionally, I have to observe a class of one of my colleagues for peer reviewing. In addition to the assessment form I’m supposed to fill out, I bring along some scratch paper to take notes of things that maybe I should do in my classes — and I usually end up doodling.
This one is from sometime last year.
This one is either from last spring or this fall.
These are from this morning.
The chibi/meeple style was definitely inspired by Tish Tosh Tesh’s steampunk meeple designs.
Posted in Garrisons, Tauren on December 15, 2016| 2 Comments »
After two years of diligent weekly recruiting at Frostwall Tavern, this week Akanja finally brought the last of the Tauren followers to the combined Garrisons of Kamalia and my other Tauren characters.
I’m still working on my “mini-Order Hall” Class-based collections of followers — that might take until halfway through the next expansion to complete!
Posted in happy dance, Tauren on September 6, 2016| 3 Comments »
— and I am in love with this zone! So much awesome! XD
Posted in Alliance, Art, Garrisons, Horde, Night Elf, Orc, Story/RP, Tauren on April 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
When I made myself a list of all the possible Tauren followers so that I could keep track of which ones I’d gotten and know when I’d recruited them all, I discovered that Horde characters can recruit Tholo Whitehoof as a follower from the Inn. Though there are a handful of Human, two Draenei, and one Gnome followers available to Horde characters, there are no Night Elves. Even worse, Anren Shadowseeker isn’t even available to Alliance characters as a possible Night Elf follower. Poor Tholo! What happened to Anren?
Posted in Art, Draenei, Garrisons, rwlrwlrwlrwl, Tauren on April 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A Frostwall worker and a Lunarfall worker about to come to blows over who has the best claim to the Garrison Resources each was sent to acquire from the same location…
I thought about just leaving this lineart uncolored —
— but her shirt needed to be bright construction zone orange.
Posted in Art, Blood Elf, Death Knight, Story/RP, Tauren on March 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Going from oldest to most recent, the next thing in my pile of unposted pictures is a pair of doodle-illustrated origin stories for my first two Death Knights, Kregga (Tauren) and Katelaira (Blood Elf).
I posted Katelaira’s story, illustrated with screenshots, shortly after I originally drafted it; today I went back and added to it the doodle illustrations. I deleted and re-created Katelaira two or three times at least, including the first iteration of the “Underpowered Death Knight” concept. Eventually, she got permanently pruned from my roster.
I began collecting screenshots with which to illustrate Kregga’s backstory. I wrote a summation of Grimtotem lore to try to understand what her motivations would be. That only gave me difficulties with the story that I’d written. Then Cataclysm came along and messed up a lot of areas where I’d wanted to take screenshots. I left the story to gather dust, though I did eventually post what I considered to be the most important bit of it.
That said, if you’re interested in reading my (rather bad) first draft of Kregga’s backstory and seeing the (rather clumsy) doodles that accompanied it, click past the cut to (more…)
Posted in Art, Real Life, Silly, Tauren on March 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The other day I found myself wanting to sit down and color something. This prompted me to start reorganizing the downstairs bedroom that we have designated the arts-and-crafts room from a storage space into a somewhat more usable working space. In the process, I retrieved my WoW doodle books, and as I flipped through them, I found a handful of drawings that I’ve never posted. When I then looked at my Gallery page here on the blog, I discovered that my art posting has really slowed down over the past year and a half since I started teaching full-time. The last time I posted art was about ten months ago, for Childrens Week last year!
My college has Spring Break this week, so in between doing my taxes and grading that pile of organic chemistry lab reports that’s been getting higher and deeper all semester, I think I’ll catch up on my art posting, too. I’d like to get through all of my backlog of unposted art, so I might be making multiple posts per day.
To start things off, here’s a real blast from the past. One of the very first fully finished WoW art pieces I ever created was this joke comparing high school and game class stereotypes. I guess it wasn’t as funny as I thought it was, though, because it didn’t make the cut when I submitted it to the official WoW site comics. When I first began this blog, one of the first pieces of art I ever posted was the drawings for this piece — which, at the time, I thought I had lost. I recovered the finished file some time ago, then got busy and forgot that I had it until I was looking through my folder of ready-to-post art on my computer just now.
