jordangreywolf: Greywolf Gear (Default)
[personal profile] jordangreywolf



Undermine Street Corndogs
Brazenly inspired by IRL Korean corn dogs, here are ramen, potato, and squid ink varieties in a tray served at an Undermine booth, as another recipe article doodle.

The Goblin Undermine content has been great for the weekly "market" and RP "carnival" events, as it introduced plenty of handy game toys (and expendable cosmetics) allowing characters to set up goblin-y techno tents and countertops, and walk around while holding a hot dog, hamburger, or ice cream cone in one hand.



Glamor Ducky
For an April Fool's gag, I was asked to draw a portrait of someone's WoW "fashionista" character as ... a rubber ducky. I don't know if the form as I've drawn it would be physically possible to create via an injection mold (probably not in one piece -- the hair would likely have to be at least one separate piece to glue on), but I tried to get the plasticky/rubbery look on the hair in part by adding shine to the texture troughs and not just to the high points. I'm imagining that the "glasses" are a separately-formed accessory glued on, because there's just no way they'd be molded-on without turning them into what would look more like goggles. (Plus, the shiny "bling" wouldn't be accomplished by just painting rubber/plastic.)




Pandarian Egg Foo Yong
Due to a number of factors, mostly my fault, I ended up having to finish up this picture in 90 minutes. (Okay, so it then turned out afterward that I didn't have to rush so much after all, but that's another story.) I took a few oddball shortcuts on this one for time:

1) For the plate, I've found that a relatively quick way to make a circular design such as the border is to draw a completely linear design in Photoshop (make a pattern, copy the layer, mirror flip it, combine it with the original, rinse, repeat until it lengthens out to several iteration), put it on the very bottom of a square canvas, and then use Polar Coordinates to transform it into a CIRCULAR ring design that will fill the bulk of the canvas. This involves stretching the design out to make a full circle, so I necessarily compact the design horizontally in anticipation of that. I was then able to squash and stretch it with "Perspective" to fit on the oval shape of the plate. It's not a realistic treatment of a border, since the plate isn't perfectly flat, but for a super-fast shortcut, it looked a whole lot better (and again was a lot faster) than my freehand work. I didn't have a similar trick for the bowl, which is why the rim pattern on it looks so much worse.

2) For the tablecloth, Photoshop's "Define Pattern" and its ability to combine with the bucket tool came in handy. I scribbled a cloud serpent and some little filigrees in gold on a layer over a red background, copied, mirror-flipped, moved down to one side, merged, repeated the whole thing, and then selected a rectangle section formed by connecting the dots between four copies of the same element. That became my repeatable bucket-fill pattern for the tablecloth.

3) For the background? Okay, at that point, I was seriously running up against the declared deadline, so I just started scribbling nonsensically in the background, occasionally color-sampling from the rest of the picture. What was I drawing? I have no idea, but ultimately I BLURRED it beyond recognition and dumped a bunch of overlay "light" and "shadow" in the hopes that it would suggest that there's *something* back there, just very, very out of focus. At the time it seemed preferable to a blank wall or simple gradient.

Anyway, there are no doubt better methods out there (the best of which would be "allow yourself more time to get this done rather than getting distracted repeatedly"), but that's what I did with this one.



Ashenvale Chickpea Tikka Masala
Although the kaldorei or "night elves" are by no means restricted to vegetarianism (spider kebabs, anyone?), a lot of Azerothian vegetarian recipes seem to be associated with them. Here's an illustration of chickpea tikka masala, with a sketchy attempt at a kaldorei kitchen interior in the background.



Silvermoon Crab-Stuffed Salmon
Crab-stuffed salmon with lemon, for a recent fantasy food article. In the background is my scribbly hazy blurry depiction of Silvermoon City, based on various online depictions.



Kun-Lai Screaming Goat Curry
Okay, so originally it was just going to be "goat curry, from Kun-Lai," but I got the crazy idea of calling it "Screaming Goat Curry," which the author was cool with. I offered two versions of this picture, both with and without screaming goat. The screaming goat version won. Yay!

Date: 2025-05-29 08:47 pm (UTC)
tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
From: [personal profile] tuftears
I made Kung Pao chickpeas the other while, it works pretty well. ^.^

Profile

jordangreywolf: Greywolf Gear (Default)
jordangreywolf

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25 262728 293031

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 7th, 2025 08:21 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios