The Making of Morph and Seek

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Here's the comic Morph and Seek in its sketched and inked version.
I work traditionally before I do the coloring, starting with sketching it up with a blue or green pencil. Those are worth gold if you can’t stand/handle light tables and allow you to ink right on top of your sketches. In addition, you don’t have to use erasers, since most scanners can’t pick up the blue and green colors. Later inked with a nib pen – only with one size in this pic. The finished piece can be seen in the comic section.

WoW Comic - Morph and Seek

The title is, as usual, a play with words - morph instead of hide.
At some times when you play you just tend to see animals around you, and I thought that it might be a good idea to make a comic out of it.

The Horde-guys are chasing a pack of annoying Allys that have been ganking them for a while, but they are nowhere to be found! But little did they know...
This comic's up and down at the same time, some get the idea and think it's funny, while others think the opposite because it's hard to see what's going on. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! (Click to enlarge.)

He-WoW

I've always thought that my t11 warrior set has looked a lot like Trap Jaw from He-Man, the animated series. A little at least..! So I started to look around to see if any other Cataclysm set had anything in common with the show.

Here's the result (Click to enlarge):

So what do you think? Is Cataclysm inspired by He-Man? :D

Forgive me, Blizzard

Forgive me, Blizzard. I didn't mean to do it, but it was late... I was tired...! (I haven't "invented" anything of the following really, just drawn on top of existing lines on the loading screens.)


The new Lich King, Bolvar Fordragon, witnesses Cataclysm's influence on Northrend as the continent itself comes to life.


Cairne Bloodhoof as a mammoth, Prophet Velen with his "raindeer" spaulders, Tyrande with a strange fella on her chest... Thus, a cheering skeleton seems to be hiding behind Vol'jin! And who is that weird guy eating on Tyrande's elbow..?


Check out Sylvanas' awesome chibi hat! And why does her spaulders sing, and what kind of living belt does she have?! While Genn Greymane's and Magni's spaulders are having a conversation, Varian Wrynn's armor seems to be very happy.

A nerdy study in Battlegrounds

I’ve been in for pvp and battlegrounds very much lately, and have had serious thoughts about it, besides from having great pleasure in backstabbing gnomes in particular. At some time I felt like I got the same battlegrounds over and over, even though I had selected random, and thought that it would be a fun idea to keep statistics over which battlegrounds I got by selecting random. At the same time I also started a poll at DeviantART where I asked the following question: Which one is your favorite Battleground?

I played 50 battlegrounds and these where the noteworthy results (note that Arathi Basin was the second of frequent occurence battlegrounds):
1^st Alterac Valley: 30,5%
2^nd Arathi Basin: 12,2%
7^th Isle of Conquest: 6%

The poll at DeviantART, with 63 participators, showed the following:
Alterac Valley: 44%
Arathi Basin: 19%
Warsong Gulch: 14%
Battle for Gilneas: 8%
Eye of the Storm: 8%
Strand of the Ancients: 3%
Twin Peaks: 3%
Isle of Conquest: 0%

Note that AV and AB are the top 2 and IoC 7^th or 8^th in both lists.

I wondered why I got Alterac Valley so often, and many of my friends suggested that it was due to the fact that AV requires more players than the others – but if that was the case, why didn’t I get Isle of Conquest more often? As it is now, it is one of the bg:s that occurs the least times.

My theory is therefore that we get the battlegrounds based on popularity, not just by some random factor. Even though we get rewards, such as more honor by picking random, people still queue for their favorite battleground, and we who pick “random” get thrown into those bg:s. So please do me a favor – stop liking Alterac Valley so much! :D

But I may be wrong, and my study isn’t 100% accurate. What do you guys think? Feel free to add links/info/studies! (And those who favor Alterac Valley - do you guys specificly pick that bg when queueing?)

Faces at places

I have this hobby of mine, in which I try to locate faces hidden within the World of Warcraft. They can often be found on floors, especially in dungeons with their different patterns, but this time I accidently looked down while running around with my rogue in Orgrimmar and I found it to be absolutely hilarious!

Genn Greymane

Today I felt for drawing Genn Greymane, one of the most awesome faction leaders in my opinion. I however questioned one thing in particular when I checked a reference picture of Genn in his Worgen-from: why would anyone want to tie a leather thread around ones tooth? What's the history behind that? What's its purpose? The thread is far to big in order to fit during his human form, so he has obviously put it there afterwards. Anyone have any suggestions?