[Art & Warcraft] March 2025

[jordangreywolf]

Grilled Mana Wyrm and Rice
The recipe of the week was grilled eel. How to Azerothize it? Well, we could claim it's "grilled mana wyrm" and make it a high elven plate! The picture is essentially of grilled eel but there's some rising blue steam because MAAAAAAGIC.


Cinnamon Bubble Ring
Another recipe doodle, this time of cinnamon rolls in a "ring." It was some practice for me to try to give it a glazed look.


Desert Dessert - Bici Bici from Uldum
How do they get ice in Uldum? Well, see, there's the Virna'al Dam and that huge reservoir that Ramkahen and Mar'at sit on the banks of, and the water gets REALLY cold at the bottom.... Or something. Anyway, another recipe article doodle, and since it's in Uldum, I had an excuse to doodle a tol'vir that just happens to look like a certain one-eyed cougar character.



Nobleman of Stromgarde
Depiction of a paladin of Stromgarde. It's pretty cool that you can have different shoulder pauldrons on each side to go for that asymmetrical look. Alas, they still don't quite have big-ol' ginormous dramatically-flapping-in-the-wind CLOAKS worked out. Also, among other things, I really need to work on hair.



Another Elven Bartender
Another elven bartender, like in the title. I'm still trying to figure out how to draw a lot of things (hands! hair! skin tones! fingernails!), looking at a bunch of references, and I haven't quite figured out how to get to smoothly depicting what I *see*. One shortcut I've been playing around with a lot is outlining a shape with "glow" at the edge facing an off-screen light source. Anyway, it's practice.



Westfall Red Beans and Rice
Okay, so I'm not sure if it would make sense to grow *rice* in Westfall, but the recipe article was about "red beans and rice," and it wasn't clear which Azerothian region would be most likely to associate with such a dish. I suggested Westfall, and the writer ran with it.