ARMESAN'S HIDEY HOLE

Illustrator/Designer, enjoyer of video games and nature stuff Website/Portfolio: www.fogheronstudios.com

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I opened up for headshot commissions a few months ago and I put together a bunch of examples with my WoW characters and really once I started it was difficult to stop.

If you're interested in commissioning one of these shoot me an email over at [email protected]

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

So on a whim (and to force myself to practice writing for work projects) I started actually writing the stories about my WoW characters that I’ve been drawing for almost two decades.  This initial one is how the large chunk of them originally met back at the end of BC/beginning of Wrath up through the end of the expansion.  

I’m currently rough drafting the last chapter and it will be done at some point, and then we’ll see where the next few segments go.  I try not to repeat too much of the ‘already established game’ events word for word, and focus more on the personal stories woven in between all the big world events, but there was about 6-7 years of me not playing WoW and just vicariously living through whatever was available online or whatever happened in the initial 3 months of the next expansion when I would resub for a bit and then inevitably quit again.  

So I’m unsure if there’s much material for a full on fic like this again or just snippets, or possibly short comics?  Still figuring that out.  But in the mean time, enjoy the crew that started it all.  Note the mature rating and tags please.

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Kid druid (Sohto) grew up and spent a good chunk of his teenage years in Drazar'alor. Not that surprising his gf (Toluca) ended up being Zandalari, much to the displeasure of his mom (who was held prisoner by Talanji for seven years as a sort of political hostage in the aftermath of BfA)

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I made these tonberry stickers in response to....well...everything these days.

Tonberry stickers available on my shop: www.allnighterstudios.net

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Made some sassy verdling stickers featuring my plant dragon designs and some very uncouth language because some days just be like that.

Stickers are available on my shop at www.allnighterstudios.net

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I had a few big projects with some board game and card game creators a bunch of years back and while one didn't meet it's financing goals and the other was never released to my knowledge, I was pretty happy with how they came out.

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So currently these are the new guard of characters, as all the older ones are now in their 40's-50's canonically in game. Not that canon has ever really mattered in WoW, but I like adhering to some semblance of structure.

Between the amani and the worgen, they definitely get the paladin into all sorts of trouble and may or may not be a throuple at this point. The cat is definitely an accomplice.

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I think this was kind of the first big collage compilation of the WoW crew of my characters after I started tinkering with the concept. Included a lot of charcters that I hadn't played in years or didn't really have stories for anymore. It's streamlined a bit since then.

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The original crew of WoW characters from 2008 when I first made all of them/really started playing. The core cast remains, even if I don't think I really play them anymore. I rotate mains so often they pop up every once in awhile. They all get an update at the end of an expansion regardless though because I love these nerds.

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Some very old art from the early 200o's that I threw color on at...some point. Going through the archives is always a trip.

I think this was how I imagined the cast of the show would react to fanfic/fanart of themselves on the internet.

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Some very silly doodles of the eikons from FFXVI

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I might've gotten really into FFXVI last year and let me tell you that's quite an accomplishment seeing as I haven't been invested in a Final Fantasy game since FFX.

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This was a "I like this pose and will now draw all the couples in the same pose, you can't stop me' moment.

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I've gotten into the habit of doing a sort of 'where are they now' collage of all my characters from WoW (plus or minus a few that no longer are relevant/present) every time a new expansion drops. These are from the last two end of expansions leading into Midnight.

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Some stragglers from the D&D archives. A bunch of these were either short lived or one-shot characters, but at least two or three of them were really fun to play.

The tiefling monk and Dragon Disciple half-orc were particularly silly.

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Some food photography of some truly extra plating. And yes, this was all as delicious as it looks.

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So for our 10 yr wedding anniversary, we went to Japan with a few friends and I was so happy. I'd been wanting to go back since I lived there for a few months in college, and we finally got the chance. Here's a small sample of the photography from the trip, plus a few from back in the day.