#pre-bfa

[windwyrm]

old but i still like it. old enough that it precedes Wrathion's adult form and is now off model lolol file this under redoing someday

#wow fanart #wranduin #anduin wrynn #wrathion #so this makes it ... pre BFA? i should put my money where my mouth is more often with these two #alas i am forever lost in orc hell #time to refill the queue with some old art again don't mind me

[goldeneko]

fairshaw crumbs in the new wrathion short story. now if blizzard could actually put them in the game, 

#like absolutely no way they made me listen to the uh #Bit Cringe dialogue between lor'themar and thalyssra #during the pre-patch #while also implying baine and mayla are a thing now #and then turn around and not mention their canon since bfa pair ?? #fairshaw #warcraft

[dandelionandkrindle]

thinking abt that one time when jaina roasted aegwynn in cycle of hatred:

#i know everyone makes fun of jaina for being...what was it...'a sleepy faced barbie' pre-bfa but this girl has /always/ had a backbone #her character design changes were a glow up though for sure #jaina proudmoore #world of warcraft

[rooscandraw]

everyday i wake up in art school

#the horrors r unending lol #i have 3 essays due in a few hrs for art history that i could have done last night #but this mf ALWAYS assigns them the night of our REQUIRED pre-bfa meetings so then i have to either #1) stay up late to do them #2) get up at the crack of dawn to do them #3) both #(currently doing both ive been up since 430 hahahahfdshf) (went to bed after 2) #and then. i get to go to class for. seven straight hours and one of those is a 3 hr class where im not allowed to sit down #in conclusion: hell is real but at least im making art right guys #right??? #i am ready for thanksgiving break thx for coming to my ted talk #roos.txt

[deathbydarkelves]

If anyone's been on PTR and knows what quests they're referring to... against my better judgement, I'm curious.

[manglednatalia]

Looking at this concept art and crying

#im begging on my knees #let me see pre cataclysm zandalar #warcraft #world of warcraft #wow #battle for azeroth #bfa #concept art #zandalar #zuldazar

[cryptidclaw]

GUYS I PASSED MY FIRST BFA PORTFOLIO!! IM PRE ADMITTED INTO THE PROGRAM 🎉🎉🎉

#one more portfolio to go and im officially in the BFA program :D #cryptid rambles #college

[leafy-mints]

Jujutsu Kaisen Theatre AU Character Page

Just a few character headcannons for my AU.

Satoru Gojo

head director!

the drama teacher.

has his bfa & does some acting at the community theatre.

loves the stage & wants to share that with the future generations so he became a drama teacher.

definitely the type to post callback lists & cast lists LATE ASF 😒.

Suguru Geto

co-director & choreographer!

gojo's assistant some days.

doesn't work at the school, but he does pop by often to help gojo out.

got a minor in dance cause he was bored, but he lowkey loves it 😭.

always comes to help to choreo for the school's productions.

Kento Nanami

set builder!

gets hired to do most of the set building.

very good in woodworking & really makes set ideas come to life.

Ieiri Shoko

set manager!

an art teacher at the school.

her & toge do pretty much all of the painting & set design.

they do the sketches, run them by gojo, & get to work 🙏🏽.

Yuji Itadori

actor!

a track athlete that's always wanted to try drama & doesn't get taken seriously at first since he's a jock.

actually does really good & gets a lead

juggles both extracurriculars, but his heart is honestly more on the stage.

gets incredibly emotional on closing nights.

Megumi Fushiguro

crew member!

doesn't like all the attention from being in the spotlight, but loves all the technical stuff about the stage.

mainly does lights.

an excuse to focus on a certain someone 🌚...

assistant stage manager.

gets a little emotional on closing nights & posts about it a lot.

Nobara Kugisaki

actress!

runs the drama club's instagram account.

a true thespian honestly.

she's loved the theatre since she was young.

she's an incredible actress & has hella stage experience.

does great with any role she's given; she's pretty versatile.

SOBS on closing night, like she cries as soon as the curtains close.

Toge Inumaki & Panda

crew members!

the two most efficient crew members at that.

everyone fears for the productions after they leave.

panda is the head stage manager, so he does a bit of everything.

but mainly curtains & set moving.

toge mainly paints & draws set ideas.

don't get super emotional until their senior show.

they honestly just start planning for the next show/possible shows.

Yuta Okkotsu

actor!

definitely a theatre nerd

he becomes a different person when he preforms & honestly dissociates a little while he's on the stage (real).

he gets so nervous pre-show & auditions though.

not-so-fun-fact: every opening night he either has a panic attack or throws up :(

toge or maki are always there to help him through that though.

Maki Zen'in

actress!

contrary to popular belief, she actually got really into theatre.

mai & her were originally forced into it by their parents, but maki's determination to be better in it than mai oddly made her love it.

she's a very serious actress though & doesn't bullshit AT ALL.

so she gets EXTRA stressed during tech week, anything going wrong just sets her off. it's never pretty 🙁.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #geto suguru #shoko ieiri #nanami kento #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki #maki zenin #toge inumaki #panda jjk #itafushi #leafy writes ✍🏽 #jjk theatre au 🎭

[wolflyndraws]

in my au george is the one that proposes. like ik it's a common trope that george gets pregnant and dream like immediately propose/proposes at some point in the pregnancy but in my mind dream is like "I don't want him to think he's just proposing because of the pregnancy" and also they've talked about marriage and george was kinda meh about it. but then Baby is like 4 years old and george is so in love and decides to propose (and involves baby in it :3)

-bfa

Awwww that would be ADORABLEE ahhh it’s also funny that everyone just agrees Gnf gets mpregged pre marriage like that’s just something everyone agrees upon LMAO

george proposing and being awkward so he needs his kid to help is so cute dnf baby flower girl ☹️☹️☹️☹️🫶🫶

#gregnant

[meruz]

hello! i'm a big fan of your work! i noticed youre a risd alumnus, and i just wanted to ask: as someone currently working in the animation industry, how was your experience with risd? i'm having to choose between risd and a school that's popular specifically for animation, and was wondering if you might have any info that could help.

thank you, i hope this ask isn't any bother!

ooh I actually love this question because theres SO MUCH I wish I knew about the RISD animation program ahead of time and I'd love to give people a better idea than the one I had going in LOL. disclaimer that because I went a while ago (a whole class of college students have come and gone since I've graduated!) some of this info may be outdated. also this is purely my personal experience. BUT hopefully it helps

I want to say upfront that I loved my experience at RISD. I attended from the years 2013-2017. Like all private art colleges it was way too expensive (worth noting I had a significant need-based scholarship) but I worked my ass off and I learned a lot about art and I made friends there that I wouldn't trade for the world. As far as an art school experience goes I would tentatively say it was "worth it". However, I went in as a freshman hoping to major in animation and I came out with a BFA in illustration and this is a large part of why: RISD doesn’t have a good animation program for those looking to go into commercial animation. And I don’t think this is a grand statement like I think most of my fellow alum and teachers would agree. The thing is it’s kind of intentional LOL?? And the keyword here of course is “commercial”. Culturally, RISD is kind of a fine arts school first and I wouldn’t say they’re hostile towards industry work but it’s more often treated as secondary or like something unfortunate/dirty you have to do to make money so you can focus more on your “true art”. I have a tweet about this that went semi-viral a while ago actually…

I’m not gonna say everyone at RISD thinks this but it’s pretty prevalent. I'm honestly not outside the opinion lol. You can call it integrity or pretentiousness or whatever but without going into whether this is good or bad it really orients the curriculum and priorities of the school. It’s hearsay so take it with a grain of salt but I’ve heard that on occasions where RISD has been offered opportunities or partnerships to make the school into a pipeline for big studios (like making work specifically to cater to those places and funnel students through the door right after school) they’ve always stuck to their guns and said no to preserve their independence. 

The animation program at RISD is actually called FAV (sometimes stylized as F/A/V) for Film Animation Video and is… as one would guess..a mishmash of animation, film, and experimental video. Multimedia, experimental work is highly encouraged and overall the work and structure is a lot more geared towards submitting independent short films to film and animation festivals than it is towards building a portfolio to secure industry or client work. I didn’t major in FAV but I was on the FAV thesis track for about 3 years and I’d say the amount of help I had making an animation industry portfolio from my experience with FAV classes is close to none. At least for the thesis program we were never required or even asked to do anything such as design character turnarounds, bg designs or paint, even storyboards. And to be fair a lot of that pre-prod work that fills industry portfolios is a necessity of large commercial crews that need to coordinate over disparate departments and studios, not so much for independent single-animator projects. 

But as a result, a lot of RISD students with ambitions to go into animation/video games/ entertainment industry art in general actually major in illustration. Myself included. It’s not a perfect 1:1 match and even within the department there’s conflict as to whether there should be more of a focus on traditional editorial illustration or otherwise but it’s one of the broadest majors at RISD because past sophomore year it’s 100% electives and there’s more classes oriented towards technical drawing and painting skill, concept, story, and communication for client work in a very all of which funnel rather neatly into commercial animation. It’s also a good route for exploring your options like if you’re stuck between wanting to do children’s books, TCG paintings, and comic books you can explore all those at more or less the same time. The downside to this is that in order to get what you want you really have to build your own curriculum. I definitely think it rewards the proactive.

So while nothing at RISD got me to build an animation portfolio I took a lot of classes that I think were fundamental to developing those skills. Ie I did actually take a storyboarding elective, painting classes that focused on color, illustration concepts classes that formed critical thinking and seeing, a sculpting class that trained anatomy and 3d construction skills, Barbara Meier teaches a 3D animation class at Brown that RISD students can cross-enroll at that’s pretty good? None of these are substitutes for a holistic animation curriculum but I think the education I did get was a lot broader and just as personally fulfilling. At the end of the day, I'm glad I wasn't so focused on animation that I was still able to explore illustration, comics, painting and sculpture. I led a student club that coordinated Brown and RISD students to work together and make video games every semester! I take the skills I picked up from these things into my animation career all the time.

Also the nice thing about animation jobs in the U.S. is that you don’t actually need to have animated a whole kickass industry-standard short film to be hireable. The pipeline is so compartmentalized and jobs so specialized that bg designers really just need to be good at environmental perspective and linework, and bg painters don’t even need to worry about that they can just be good at color and light. And almost no one at least in the U.S. animation industry actually needs to know how to animate LOL. Am I being reductive? Am I downing a heavy dose of copium for going to the school that I did? Who knows. Midway through my freshman year I was seriously considering transferring to a school with a better animation curriculum but I never completed those applications because I took a class during the winter semester called Science-Fiction Fantasy Illustration and midway between designing shitty aliens and my new best friends falling asleep on me during a 2001 Space Odyssey screening I was like. This isn’t so bad. Anyways, it turned out ok, we all have jobs now. 

All that aside, Providence is a beautiful little city. There’s an arts and alternative culture there that feels completely different from those in places like NYC and LA. Chris Van Allsburg the writer/illustrator of Jumanji and The Polar Express was a RISD illustration alum and he based a lot of the imagery of Santa's Village off of Providence. This drawing I did is literally a view from Benefit st that I would walk from my off-campus housing to campus everyday:

There’s a lot of stuff that goes into whether a school, or any school, is the right fit for you. Sorry for rambling but I tried to answer this quick because ik college decisions can be time sensitive. Good luck with your decision making!

#ask

[erikailustra]

Chart of my OCs pre-BFA.

For what, you may ask me - which I say, YES.

#world of warcraft #warcraft oc #character art #my art #my characters #night elf #blood elf #warcraft art #worgen

[kryp-does-random-stuff]

Old Anduin Wrynn fanart. Pre-BFA era.

#world of warcraft #Anduin #Anduin Wrynn #Little Lion #Battle For Azeroth #my artwork #fanart #blizzard #world of warcraft fanart #paladin #kryptica

[teriyakichop]

I'm tired.

I contacted a Blizzard WoW GameMaster to help me with my battletag. One letter was supposed to be capitalized but I found out that it wasn't. So I simply wanted the letter changed. And GameMaster Mia, as sweet as she was, said something to me that took the wind out of my sails. She congratulated me for being in WoW for 16 years. The truth is, I've been in WoW since launch. I don't know why they didn't have that on file, but I've been there from the beginning.

I've been to many different servers from pve, pvp, rp, and even rp-pvp. And while I loved the game, I began to hate the way the community has festered to shit. Moon Guard has gone down to the dumps, and I've been on Moon Guard for over a decade to see it happen. I've been on WoW for longer than some of my haters have been born. That's not a compliment. I think that's actually very pathetic of me. And I said to everyone around me that I want to quit WoW. But my guild members keep reasoning with me to stay. So I do. But after the nonsense I am going through, I might just stick to raiding exclusively, or I might quit WoW altogether. Normally when an expansion is announced, I would get it day 1 it is on sale. BfA I got the day I could pre-order it. But when Shadowlands was available for pre-order, I got it about 2 months later. Dragonflight was 1 week before the expansion actually launched. And now, I haven't pre-ordered The War Within at all...and I don't think I will. WoW doesn't do it for me anymore. My daughter is about to be a grown woman, and I'm excited to see where life takes her. I'm scared to have her leave the nest, but I know it is inevitable. Society has grown so apathetic, and I don't like the way people treat each other. However people treat me doesn't bother me, but the way players treat each other so cruel without a second thought, as well as how many people think in such a way as they do is disgusting and beneath my morals. When I hear that I've been banned from this group, that group, this venue, that venue, all because they don't want to communicate with me about what is REALLY going on, I laugh. Their bans doesn't effect me because I don't even want to be here. I've been on WoW and wanted to leave WoW before these groups and organizations even existed! I did great without them back then and I can actually do even better without them now. But I am having serious problems with convincing myself to keep co-existing in a "community" that is only a community by name and false compassionate activities that are circulated like semi-recreational drugs. So after this nonsense involving Xyzis is done, this might be my time to ride off in the sunset. I can't guarantee leaving but I can't guarantee staying, either. "If that's what you have in mind If that's what you're all about Good luck movin' up 'Cause I'm moving out" --Billy Joel.

[redisaid]

hi im curious as to what your favorite jaina proudmoore characterization/expac era is. most people seem to enjoy post-theramore jaina solely for the crushing angst factor but im curious to know what your opinion is

I think you can really pick a Jaina to suit your mood, so honestly the answer is yet another "it depends".

Pre-Warcraft 3 or of that era Jaina can be a fun time to play with her being eager and a tad naïve. Optimism that's about to be shattered ahoy!

Vanilla-WotLK era Jaina is fun, because I feel like no one talks about her, and Theramore is a neat setting that rarely gets explored in fics.

WotLK Jaina is super cool, all kinds of potential for her dealing with Arthas and the fallout of all the juicy leftovers from Warcraft 3.

Pandaria-Legion Jaina is mean and justified in being so. I love that for her, plus the delicious tragedy of her dealing with losing her entire world yet again.

BFA Jaina of course is the fandom favorite, but hey, Kul Tiras! Boats are cool! As is atoning for kinda sorta killing your dad, but also he was a racist bitch so maybe the world is a better place for it?

Shadowlands + Jaina doesn't do much but make portals and have her potential wasted, but the fandom tends to ignore this era a lot for this reason.

Either way, she has flavors, and they are all tasty depending on what you're in the mood for.

#red answers

[sasslett]

10 Characters/10 Fandoms/10 Tags

Tagged by @winternightjewels, thank you! Uhh.... do I even have ten fandoms? Can I even think of ten things I like enough to list? Hmmm...

FFXIV - if I can't choose my WoL... Um... Alisaie?

Mass Effect - not choosing my Shepard, so... Miranda?

Dragon Age - not counting my Grey Warden, it's gotta be Alistair, hands down, precious boy.

FF7 - Tifa <3

Uncharted - Elena, my girl

Resident Evil - Jill (though, granted, idk what happened to the series after 2009)

Mortal Kombat - Sonya (bring her back you fucking cowards)

Warcraft - Jaina (even though I hate where the series has gone I still love who she used to be pre-BFA. Or Pre-Legion. Or Pre-Mists. Or...)

Street Fighter - Cammy (I'm struggling to think of characters and my husband is obsessed with this game atm so this is like... fandom through osmosis? Also she's my type and she likes horses and cats)

Magic the Gathering - Elspeth (well, everything from like 2019 and before, I quit playing and idk what they did with her but knowing their current lore it's probably nothing good)

This was... actually a struggle lol my husband even had to help me finish. I don't really get into fandoms much and when they go a direction I don't like I peace out.

Tagging ten people... @ainyan @irisopranta @starrysnowdrop @dragonsongmakhali @sylaurin @otherworldseekers @scholarlostintime @loldragoon-ffxiv @tallbluelady @akirakirxaa idk if you all do tag games and if not sorry for tagging you but here you go!

#sassbox #tagged #i never tag people it's too stressful #if I could choose OCs they'd be half this list lol

[peachesofteal]

I love the paintings you reblog! I’m hoping to get a BFA soon-ish and I have to ask what’s your favorite art movement or period 🐁

Ahhh oh my god that’s wonderful! That’s amazing, I’m thrilled for you. I love that. I’m not educated in art but it’s a hobby of mine? I’ve traveled a fair amount and have a long list of works on my list that I check off 🥲 its something I LOVE, so I’m going to ramble a little bit here:

I don’t think I can pick a favorite I’m a pretty big fan of pre raphaelite, art nouveau, surrealism/cubism (I have a GIANT version of Guernica in my house, and I’ve seen it in person twice. Cried both times.) I dream in Italian renaissance and could like go on and on about it.

There’s also kind of niche art style/school/whatever that I am very into called something like ‘Brandywine school’ (or whatever it’s actually called I’m not sure) because of Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth (both who I am completely obsessed with) and have multiple prints of theirs hanging in my house.

🩵🩵🩵

#peaches asks #you’re so cool 🐁 anon #thanks for this I loved it