[Art & Warcraft Stuff] November Doodles

[jordangreywolf]

Challenging the White Tiger
Where did we leave off? Well, the Vigilants continued their pilgrimage across Pandaria, with a visit to the temple of Xuen the White Tiger. Of course, there had to be a challenge to a fight. The PCs didn't win, but the tiger-god was a good sport about it, and it was only a sparring match after all.


(Chef's Kiss!)
A gnomish chef creates a culinary wonder. Mwa! C'est magnifique!


Gnome Chef, Revisited
I remade the chef's picture to show him on the streets of Stormwind, with a pie, so he could have something to use for his pie-selling booth. (Some players RP running booths at various markets, and put some work into decorating custom menus for their imaginary wares.)

"♫ When the moons hit your eye, ♪
♫ Like a big, peach-y pie, ♪
♫ That's a-gnom-é----- ♪"

"♫ And ov-en smells fine, ♪
♫ Set to three-forty-nine, ♪
♫ That's a-gnom-é----- ♪"

"♫ Bells will ring, ♪
♫ Ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling, ♪
♫ Take it out, it's done well-a! ♪"

"♫ Set the tray, ♪
♫ Tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy tay, ♪
♫ Oh that lovely fresh smell-a! ♪"

...



Counting Bird's Nests
An ancient Titansteel war golem with some eccentric interpretations of her "programming" goes on patrol around Stormwind City, counting bird's nests. Steve the Lizard stands by in case anything interesting falls out.



The Cathedral Square Gazebo
I worked on a few location scenes for filler pieces for the Stormwind Daily. One thing that struck me is that in-game everything is just one season, but IC-wise presumably there'd be changing seasons with autumn leaves, snowfall, etc. Otherwise, why bother celebrating seasons at all? So I tried making variants of the same location at different times of the year.



A.R.A.C.H.N.I.D. Trial Run
A.R.A.C.H.N.I.D. (Automatic Rapid-Application Combat Healing 'N' Injection Device), pictured on this gnome tinker's shoulder in the picture above, had a trial run with a gnoll "volunteer," though it ran into a bit of a snag when the gnoll panicked at the sight of the crawling robot with its syringe-tipped legs and injection mandibles and dashed into a nearby warehouse. After tripping over a box of rejected Bath Balms and knocking over a crate of bandage-gun ammo, the resultant explosion had the side benefit of: a) healing the gnoll from the immediate effects of the explosion; b) securing him so thoroughly with all the bandages that he couldn't keep running on into the Concentrated Explodium storage bay. Disaster averted! Somewhat.

Asked for a comment, the crazy gnoll only offered a muffled "Hee hee!"

Okay, so the gnome is supposed to be Pippy, but I had a lot of trouble doing the face this time around. Need more practice.



(Adjusts Glasses. GLEAM!)
It's a restaurant in a fantasy city, but sometimes rowdy sorts show up. This guy is supposed to help deal with that, but still look dignified while doing so. (Character portrait for someone from an RP group using a spot in Dalaran to proxy for a really fancy "café" in Stormwind City.)

Hands are hard to draw. So are necks, apparently. Still practicing.



Death Knight Giving a Speech ... at Night
A death knight giving a speech at the Stormwind Cathedral Gazebo. Whatever the topic is, I guess I'm going to listen, but at a nice, respectful DISTANCE away.



The Holiday Broker
One of the new NPC "races" introduced would be semi-ethereal beings known as "brokers" in the Shadowlands. They seem an awful lot like the Ethereals in some respects, just less mummy-like, and with a bit of a "we don't quite get this mortal stuff" silliness.

A Broker from the Great Beyond, dealing in Festive Ornamentation of Select Planetary-Rotation Instances of Special Symbolic Importance. Or, in other words, leftover holiday knickknacks.




Yak Attack!
A panicked yak blunders into the middle of a tournament match, and by Xuen the White Tiger's rules ... the yak is now a competitor! Much mayhem ensues.



The Drunken Tea Master
A hozen martial artist master squares off against several challengers at his mountaintop hideaway, even though they showed up right in the middle of tea time.



Stormwind Pumpkin Pie
Inspired by those "turkey crust" or "autumn leaf crust" finishes for pumpkin pies I see here and there online, it's a pumpkin pie. It's that time of year again, Pilgrim's Bounty, when it's easy as pie (and spice bread stuffing and cranberry chutney and roasted turkey...) to grind that Classic Cooking skill up from 1 to 295. (I read somewhere you can get it up to 300 with the Pilgrim's Bounty recipes, but at 295 everything seems to go "grey" for me. Still, that's a pretty good run.)

On the same day, there was a cooking quest to go gather Stormwind Pumpkins at the north side of the city. I'm sure they're much like Elwynn Pumpkins or Mogu Pumpkins or any other sort of pumpkin, but stick an Azerothian location name in front and now it's a Warcraft thing!



Draenei and Snow
Portrait of a Light-Forged Draenei character in a winter snowfall. (The character's player seemed to be having a rough time, so I did a quick little doodle in hopes of a slight cheer-up.)



Priestess of the Light
A priestess in the ruins of Uldaman, discussing her findings (with other adventure party members, off panel) of some ancient relics related to Keeper Tyr.



The Fallen Sentinel of Uldaman
Sentinel Talondras, alas, hasn't a chance against the onslaught of bored adventurers grinding their way through every tidbit of pre-release patch material. What a cool sethrak-like Titan-born! (Makes me wish sethrak were playable. And gnolls. And arakkoa. And ... okay, I could go on and on.)



Kul Tiran Coffee
It's like Irish coffee, only there's no Ireland in Azeroth, so ... Kul Tiran! And, no, despite the reputation that Kul Tiran cooking has, there's no fish oil in it. In the background is the interior of a tavern in Boralus. This was drawn for a weekly recipe article, usually food-focused, but sometimes it veers into cocktails and such.

Comments

[tuftears]

Great stuff as always. ^.^ Xuen is such a handsome cat, I had to get myself a mini-Xuen, so that's when I leveled most of my pets, to get through the Celestial Pet Battle.

I've fallen off somewhat in my purrsuit of all things cat, but I still try to get most of them!