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During Orphan Week, some of the things you're asked to do with your orphan could be considered awesome. I made sure my orphan learned valuable life lessons, so he could grow up right in a world filled with evil undead giants and twink rogues that would just as soon shank you as look at you.
This is a followup to my Defensive Stance picture. I wrote it at the same time, and finally drew and inked it about a month ago. It took way too long to color, and it's a little bigger than my usual upload so I can show my details some. I think I'm getting a little less fearful of coloring. I still forgot things.
Somehow I always end up doing these scenes with groups of characters, usually in elaborate outfits. And I end up thinking, "Why the hell did I write this? This is a ton of work! What was I thinking?" I think I'm going to have to switch to pornography, just so I don't have to ink or color any more armor.
This is a followup to my Defensive Stance picture. I wrote it at the same time, and finally drew and inked it about a month ago. It took way too long to color, and it's a little bigger than my usual upload so I can show my details some. I think I'm getting a little less fearful of coloring. I still forgot things.
Somehow I always end up doing these scenes with groups of characters, usually in elaborate outfits. And I end up thinking, "Why the hell did I write this? This is a ton of work! What was I thinking?" I think I'm going to have to switch to pornography, just so I don't have to ink or color any more armor.
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heh.
Now you know one of the secrets of why I mostly stopped drawing armor in favor of porn.....
Just out of curiosity-I can see a blood elf mage, a tauren druid, a troll hunter, (Pet gives that one away) and of course, your troll warrior- but the rogue thats kind of visible in a few panels I cannot place for species.
Theres 5 fingers, so it has to be either a forsaken, an orc, or a blood elf.
I'm assuming forsaken, based on the yellow glowing eyes- but theres head pieces in game that give that effect regardless of species.
-Badger-
Now you know one of the secrets of why I mostly stopped drawing armor in favor of porn.....
Just out of curiosity-I can see a blood elf mage, a tauren druid, a troll hunter, (Pet gives that one away) and of course, your troll warrior- but the rogue thats kind of visible in a few panels I cannot place for species.
Theres 5 fingers, so it has to be either a forsaken, an orc, or a blood elf.
I'm assuming forsaken, based on the yellow glowing eyes- but theres head pieces in game that give that effect regardless of species.
-Badger-
You could always go the "high fantasy" route! Remember, the less armor obscures on a femme, the better it is, so all you need to do is just draw a group of amazons, add a few flimsy bit of chainmail and you're all set - instant group of epic heroes ready and awaiting orders.
... why am I suddenly getting the feeling that's exactly how this particular trend started?
... why am I suddenly getting the feeling that's exactly how this particular trend started?
Sadly WoW abandoned that route after Outlands - all of the armor in Wrath was a uniform mud brown and covered everything, Cata shows a bit of cleavage but nothing as sharp as the old glorious armor set.
I like using the sets from the game, because there's some pretty great design work in there and people like seeing them.
That said, I did grind most of the Tier 10 set for my warrior. It had great raid utility for tanks, but I did it mostly because the chestpiece for females is an awesome midriff top.
That said, I did grind most of the Tier 10 set for my warrior. It had great raid utility for tanks, but I did it mostly because the chestpiece for females is an awesome midriff top.
I had to put some color in it somewhere. To actually use the Northrend palette would mean that everyone would be dressed in brown, dark brown, charcoal, medium gray, and matte-finish gunmetal. King Ymiron there with his red beard would be the most colorful thing in the picture, and everyone else would have sets of leather and dark gray armor distinguishable only by details. The accurate background would have been a dimly lit room of dark gray-brown wood with some gold highlights and gray stone.
I actually changed the color of my warrior's armor to blue, to make it pop out; with the original palette that Hellscream's Plate set would have just looked like a smear or part of his legs.
I understand the appeal of a limited palette, but in Northrend it really just started to get boring. It was a predictable reaction to what dustmeat justifiably called the "clown armor" of Outland, but the visual excitement of brown and gray armor in brown and gray rooms for everyone all the time wears pretty damn thin after a few months.
I actually changed the color of my warrior's armor to blue, to make it pop out; with the original palette that Hellscream's Plate set would have just looked like a smear or part of his legs.
I understand the appeal of a limited palette, but in Northrend it really just started to get boring. It was a predictable reaction to what dustmeat justifiably called the "clown armor" of Outland, but the visual excitement of brown and gray armor in brown and gray rooms for everyone all the time wears pretty damn thin after a few months.
Y'know I always thought these things would scar the kids for life.
Take them into a battlegrounds and utterly destroy flag carriers, etc.
Then drag them round half the world to every hell you can find whilst doing your dailies.
Then put them in front of some of the most powerful creatures in the (then current) game...
Heh, no wonder the factions are always blood crazed
Take them into a battlegrounds and utterly destroy flag carriers, etc.
Then drag them round half the world to every hell you can find whilst doing your dailies.
Then put them in front of some of the most powerful creatures in the (then current) game...
Heh, no wonder the factions are always blood crazed
You notice in the Defensive Stance picture, they're actually in the Eye of the Storm. Man, trying to get a flag carry during Orphan Week is brutal.
I finally got one with my Orphan a day or two after the week ended (because you can turn in the whistle for weeks after, depending on when you got it) and had the Achievements to prove it -- only to be told "oh, it's not written on the Achievement text, but it has to be during that week, even though for many other Achievements it doesn't matter." /teethgrind
I finally got one with my Orphan a day or two after the week ended (because you can turn in the whistle for weeks after, depending on when you got it) and had the Achievements to prove it -- only to be told "oh, it's not written on the Achievement text, but it has to be during that week, even though for many other Achievements it doesn't matter." /teethgrind
The undead orphans that show up in the game are gruesome and pathetic, which is understandable. What I really want to see is some young/teen Tauren and Trolls. Can I get an amen?!
That's King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle, the guy currently needed for the Achievement in the title. Before outgearing made the fight a joke, which happened very quickly, it was actually a pretty cool encounter! Ymiron calling up new powers from his dead champions' corpses, summoning groups of shambling skeletal warriors, shouting some pretty gruesome stuff -- it's really interesting and well-designed. I was sure from his last line he'd show up one more time in Icecrown Citadel, but alas he did not. Come on, the guy'd been alive for like ten thousand years; he'd met the Titans. He could have gotten some more play. :)
That's King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle, the guy currently needed for the Achievement in the title. Before outgearing made the fight a joke, which happened very quickly, it was actually a pretty cool encounter! Ymiron calling up new powers from his dead champions' corpses, summoning groups of shambling skeletal warriors, shouting some pretty gruesome stuff -- it's really interesting and well-designed. I was sure from his last line he'd show up one more time in Icecrown Citadel, but alas he did not. Come on, the guy'd been alive for like ten thousand years; he'd met the Titans. He could have gotten some more play. :)
The lore of WoW is extremely involved and sadly getting like Marvel / DC in complexity. That's not a bad thing unless they forget what they wrote and just add new stuff as the writers change. And DHO. That's who I thought that was. I liked that encounter as well. Nice little run up to him as well.
Maybe I'll have to look a little harder for the undead orphans. Never saw them when running around in Org.
Also AMEN!
Maybe I'll have to look a little harder for the undead orphans. Never saw them when running around in Org.
Also AMEN!
There's no Forsaken orphans, if that's what you mean. It's implied that only adults were strong enough to survive conversion via the Scourge, and those that converted tended to not leave anyone unconverted -- dead or not -- in a shall we say usable state.
There are Undead orphans, like Pamela Redpath, and (it's sometimes speculated) Timmy. As I said, gruesome.
I'll hunt around and see if I can find my teenager WoW sketches. Or just do some new ones, that would probably work too!
There are Undead orphans, like Pamela Redpath, and (it's sometimes speculated) Timmy. As I said, gruesome.
I'll hunt around and see if I can find my teenager WoW sketches. Or just do some new ones, that would probably work too!
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