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April fools! Err, rather, announcing I was stopping all Starcraft content and posting this would have been my April Fools joke, if I had had any free time back in April, hah.

I've actually been a WC3 fan since the year it came out, and used to do a ton of Warcraft fan art in my younger days.
Of course there's no need for a Warcraft to Scale project in the same way there is for Starcraft because World of Warcraft already has everything in it. Starcraft's pretty unique position of having a rich lore and tons of awesome spaceships and aliens and things, but not having any semi-official size charts, the way franchises like Halo or Star Wars do, was sort of the opening for all my Starcraft work from the past few years. But I do appreciate Warcraft as well.

(I will say too that a lot of the World of Warcraft designs are sort of pale, anemic imitations of WC3's incredible art. Take the Crypt Fiend and Ghoul for example— in WC3, one of their trademark physical characteristics is their hunched backs. Both of them have shoulders and backs that are much higher than their heads. This permanently lowered head gives them a really inhuman, menacing look.

But then World of Warcraft tossed that out, so the Crypt Fiends just look kind of sad and skinny, while the Ghouls , who have also had their creepy hollow nasal cavities filled in, look kind of goofy. This is just my opinion, of course. (I didn't stay 100% faithful to the WC3 looks for this artwork either— My Hippogryph has the tail of a deer, and my Wind Rider is wearing much less clothing. 'Cuz it's cool.))

This was a surprising amount of fun to do. Obviously the drawings are less detailed than some of my Starcraft art (though the poses are more dynamic!), but it was so much fun that I could maybe be persuaded to do a lot more of them.

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April fools! Err, rather, announcing I was stopping all Starcraft content and posting this would have been my April Fools joke, if I had had any free time back in April, hah.

I've actually been a WC3 fan since the year it came out, and used to do a ton of Warcraft fan art in my younger days.
Of course there's no need for a Warcraft to Scale project in the same way there is for Starcraft because World of Warcraft already has everything in it. Starcraft's pretty unique position of having a rich lore and tons of awesome spaceships and aliens and things, but not having any semi-official size charts, the way franchises like Halo or Star Wars do, was sort of the opening for all my Starcraft work from the past few years. But I do appreciate Warcraft as well.

(I will say too that a lot of the World of Warcraft designs are sort of pale, anemic imitations of WC3's incredible art. Take the Crypt Fiend and Ghoul for example— in WC3, one of their trademark physical characteristics is their hunched backs. Both of them have shoulders and backs that are much higher than their heads. This permanently lowered head gives them a really inhuman, menacing look.

But then World of Warcraft tossed that out, so the Crypt Fiends just look kind of sad and skinny, while the Ghouls , who have also had their creepy hollow nasal cavities filled in, look kind of goofy. This is just my opinion, of course. (I didn't stay 100% faithful to the WC3 looks for this artwork either— My Hippogryph has the tail of a deer, and my Wind Rider is wearing much less clothing. 'Cuz it's cool.))

This was a surprising amount of fun to do. Obviously the drawings are less detailed than some of my Starcraft art (though the poses are more dynamic!), but it was so much fun that I could maybe be persuaded to do a lot more of them.