I have been trying to organize this blog a touch and I didn’t realize how many pictures I had in the images section. I came across this sketch that I had forgotten I had uploaded, it is of a Night Elf in a game I used to play called ‘World of Warcraft’.
I scanned it in a little bit too dark, and most likely will re-scan it once I find the cd that I hope is not lost for the scanner machine. The scanner picked up another sketch I had drawn that was a page behind it as well, at first I thought it was all my erasing showing up but now I see it is the other sketch showing through, two images in one :).
In this sketch I like how his ears turned out the most.
09/19/2007 at 9:26 pm
Interesting. Do you still play? What attracted you to this type of game?
09/21/2007 at 1:13 pm
I don’t play it anymore, mostly because of time right now but I think what attracted me to this game was the Lore that was written about it.
These roleplaying games are like interactively participating in a story of some sort. The background is provided, with its beautiful graphics of towns, cities, forests and areas, all you have to do is create a character from many options, write your own background for this, then enter the game to participate. The way you participate is your choice and the developers of these games always provided many choices, even the people playing are able to provide different scenarios too. They are a lot of fun:) especially meeting others along the way that were doing the same.
It was actually my children playing this type of game that started me playing them:) they had received a game called Ultima Online and in it they created characters that were Orcs in this, these orcs had developed a community, made forts to live in, lived basically from the land with different orcs developing different skills in mining say, to make armor, or collected cotton to make clothes, or wood for bowcrafting and food for eating and cooking.
This community of orcs made up their own language that the characters needed to learn as well and I found watching them play so interesting and some of the orcs stories were so funny. I was most amazed too at how quickly they learnt the language, and how quickly they could respond using the same language.
09/26/2007 at 4:24 am
Very nice sketching Tumel. Thanks for sharing it here. Peace and beauty. ~ RS ~