[Artwork & Stuff] May 2024

[jordangreywolf]

Get Well Kitteh
A teal moonsaber kitten plush doll as a "get well soon" gift/card for a friend (who likes playing a bloo druid, or a druid who likes to be a blue cat a lot, or whatever). These "plush doll" doodles are fairly quick and easy to manage on the fly because I don't have to worry about proper anatomy, details like fingers, etc., and it's fairly easy to find visual references of "close enough" toys that I can tweak for something remotely resembling the subject (but with big head and HUGE EYES AND EARS and LITTLE PAWS and such).


Children's Week Beach Day
Swimming lessons with (friendly, baby) murlocs at the beach in Westfall. An imagined Children's Week outing to the beach. Another case where I just sort of sloppily, roughly depict a background and BLUR IT OUT LIKE CRAZY.



Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (for Children's Week)
A recipe article illustration for an imaginary Azerothian newspaper. For something a little different (for me, anyway), I tried blurring out the FOREGROUND cookies. I was having trouble making them come out the way I wanted anyway.



Ravager Egg Quiche
It's not quite the same without the semi-translucent shell and the larva-like things squirming around inside. But never mind that. Mmmm, mmm, slightly purple ravager egg QUICHE! It's what's for breakfast this fine morning in Stormwind City! We got a new writer for the weekly recipe article who was a little more open to the idea of making "Azerothized" articles featuring ingredients from the game world (even if you could readily replicate them with available "substitutes" IRL). That was the intent for the longest time, but for whatever reason there was a lot of pushback from a previous writer or two.



Mother's Day 2024
My mom finally got Dad's Mini-Cooper back, after it had bounced around a couple of shops for about six months or so with pesky issues. Dad had passed on in the intervening time, but my mom still thinks of it as "his" car. Nonetheless, she brushed up on driving a stick-shift, and drove it around while the weather was nice. I made a Mother's Day picture with her/his car (and up in the sky a J3 Piper Cub - the first plane my dad had, back in the day). I got a few details wrong on the car on my first try (I couldn't find a visual reference at this angle), but after some feedback (and my mom going out and taking a picture of the actual car for me), I made some revisions.



"For Sssssciencccce!"
A crazed Vault-Tec scientist unwisely mixes up some chems at an abandoned Red Rocket station, and then uses himself as a test subject, in an attempt to grant himself improved resistance against the hazards of the wasteland. Alas, it comes at the cost of his own humanity!

Old HorrorClix miniature from "The Lab" (Repto-Sapien) re-based on a 25mm round base, with some resin and 3D-printed scenery for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare (modified with wire, paper, and bits). I've still got a bunch of these HorrorClix minis around, and several of those from "The Lab" I could easily imagine working to represent various Vault-Tec experiments gone horribly wrong.

In the meantime, while my DCC campaign kept dragging on, my friend with the 3D printer decided to actually run his OWN Fallout campaign, using the official Fallout 2d20 rules and a published campaign called "Winter of Atom." As such, I bundled up a bunch of my Fallout minis and terrain bits (and the Fallout minis that were actually his but I had on "extended loan" after assembling and painting them up), put them into foam-lined cases, and got them to him so he could make use of them. This raises the odd possibility that should I actually start running a Fallout campaign, I won't actually HAVE a bunch of Fallout minis on hand ... but it occurs to me that this isn't necessarily a big deal. I've got so many generic minis that I could easily kitbash into mutants and vault-dwellers and random raider/wastelander types as it is. I decided to dig through some of my HorrorClix minis (such as this one) to see if I could build up a collection of retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic minis to have at the handy for various roles. Not all robots need to be Protectrons or Securitrons or such -- I can use various "generic" retro robots. Not all raiders/fiends/wastelanders need look like something specifically from the game by any means. All sorts of HeroClix figures in spandex could easily be repainted to be in vault suits. And so forth.