[Art & Warcraft Stuff] Noblegarden and Other April Doodles

[jordangreywolf]

The Cherry Blossom Festival
Neeng Snowstep of Om Nom Noodles all dressed up for the Cherry Blossom Festival held in the Arboretum in Pandaria's Jade Forest.


The Canal Street Ladies' Club Garden Party
Lady Rose (the tall Draenei in the center) with her Canal Street Ladies' Club, having a garden tea party, as a plate of novelty cookies and tea-cakes arrives.



Pupcakes
After the plate of novelty cookies made for the first "Canal Street Ladies' Club" meeting, I suppose expectations were set for some sort of cute baked good for every meeting. Some have been a little more inspired than others. Here's a plate of "pupcakes" (cupcakes decorated to look like pups of various breeds).



Breath of Life
A kaldorei druid casts an area-effect healing spell to help the adventurers.



Performing at the Chateau Rose Cafe
A half-elven bard performing on an enchanted guitar at the Chateau Rose Cafe.



Nightsaber Plush and Friends at the Market
Some plush dolls on sale at one of the vendor booths at the Stormwind Market.



Raynelle and Steve (looping GIF)
Silly 4-frame GIF animation of Raynelle playing fiddle, while Steve the Lizard bounces along.



Perp Sketch: Cultist of Ragnaros
Villainess (potentially recurring, since she escaped) from an encounter vs. some cultists of Ragnaros.



Pecan Tortollan Shell Game
"Over the years, I've collected MANY filling recipes. See if YOU can MATCH them!" For the "Kul-Tiran Cultural Festival," I tried making up a menu of Kul-Tiran-inspired foodstuffs, and tried to be as punny as possible. These were inspired by the "shell game" matching mini-game from the "Battle for Azeroth" expansion.



BOOP!
All right, so the heroes just discovered a functioning mechagnome overseer in an ancient Titan vault, and he seems to be thousands of years old. What shall we do? Well, first the magenta-haired gnome decides to BOOP his nose. Seems sensible to me. (And there's Steve the Lizard in the background, with his safety helmet.)



Advance Team
Portrait of three of the fighter-types in the party, taking the lead while exploring an ancient Titan facility.



Deciphering Titan Runes
A scribe works on translating some ancient glyphs and runes in hopes of getting clues on how to progress further in the complex (and avoid defensive systems).




Tea is Served
Portrait of one of the void elf staff at the Branch & Lantern Tea House.



Still Kickin' Kitchen - Kul-Tiran Cultural Festival
Special menu for "da stoopid gnoll" and his "gen-yoo-wine Kull-tee-ran koo-wee-zeen" offered at the cultural festival. Alas, he made zero sales. Hmm. I wonder why not?



The Orphanage Matron
A draenei worker at the Stormwind Orphanage reads a story to one of her charges.



The Bronzebeard Bard
A fiddle-playing bard holds a concert in the Ironforge Commons. (There's an add-on called "Musician," that allows players to play MIDI files that only other users with the add-on can hear, and only if they're within "range" of the playing PC. When used properly, it's a fun toy. Most of the time, however, people are pretty obnoxious about just popping in some schlock MIDI of some pop song, badly tuned, and blast it without regard for whether it actually sounds any GOOD or not. Some MIDI instruments and effects do NOT translate over well to the limited selection of instruments supported by this add-on, so the end results can be scary.
This player, however, curated a pretty nice list of Irish melodies.)



Dinner at Chateau Rose
The Night Elf head of staff at the Chateau Rose got a promotion, so I did a new picture with her new outfit (which I thought looked better anyway). That's beef wellington on the plate. (Well, I suppose it ought to be something other than "Wellington" to fit in Azeroth, but then, this is the same universe that has "Alterac Swiss" as a cheese name.)



Temporal Inhibitor
The magenta-haired gnome mage casts a time-slowing spell to try to help her allies prep in a fight against the BBEG, while Steve the Lizard (wearing "bunny ears" for Noblegarden) hides behind her.



The Jousting Tournament
A couple of contestants at the jousting competition held outside Stormwind City.



Shopping at the Stormwind Market
A void elf and her adopted daughter (they've shown up in a couple of my other drawings before) strolling through the market at the Harbor Overlook.



Some Pizza for Mr. Smite
What a tragic character! This picture was drawn as something of a joke doodle in response to a silly made-up story about someone stealing poor Mr. Smite's pizza. Well, that just won't stand! So here's some more pizza for the Tauren.



The Nighthare
Because I just can't pass up a "good" pun.



The Whispervine Herbalist
Sometimes I get requests that are a bit frustrating. "Draw this character for me." Okay, I've got a name and after some interrogation I find out it's a female draenei character, and she likes white-and-gold off-the-shoulder dresses ... but what does she look like? Sometimes I just need to start drawing (and work in layers) and then someone can tell me everything I get WRONG, so I can at least move forward. (If I ask a long list of questions, I get crickets for a response, because the reader's brain locked up halfway through thinking of answers. Draw a picture, and I'll motivate someone to say that this, that, and the other thing are NOT RIGHT.)



The Garden Herbalist
Here's what I ended up with after several revisions and some mind-changing.



The New Noodle Trainee
A new member of the Om Nom Noodles crew, and younger sister of Neeng Snowstep, Meyong.



Imperator Aleriaus Tiberius
Some guy RPs being leader of his own made-up island nation, and the rest of his guild goes along with it, so it's all cool. I drew this for his birthday.



The Plush Imperator
Since I am a silly person, here is a plush doll version of the stern Imperator.



And You Get a ... BOOK TO THE HEAD!
Magical libraries are dangerous places.



Mr. Boozy Plush
Plush doll of Mr. Boozy, crustacean mascot of the Lark & Siren Brewing Company, holding a plush representation of a bottle of "The Keelhauler," the flagship drink.



The Great Bunny Hop Race
Depiction of a very silly competition at an online Noblegarden celebration.



Nobleberries
Another novelty tray of treats, this time consisting of "starberries" (like strawberries, only FANTASY), drizzled with chocolates and other candy coatings to decorate them as Noblegarden eggs.

Comments

[tuftears]

Neeng Snowstep's kimono is *fantastic*! That is spectacular coloring there.

The pupcakes may be too cute.

Kaldorei druid is sweet! I could see that being in a WoW comic or cutscene.

*suspiciously eyes the 'half elf' bard's foxtail* Is the other half kitsune?

Yay, nightsaber plush, I want one. ^.^

Heehee @ the Renard animation.

Ouch, that poor Worgen librarian, attacked by a book!

Great stuff, I am amazed how much work you put into these.