Forum Post of the Day: WoW Artpad

Posted Jun 11th 2007 1:20PM by David Bowers
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends

Every now and then, someone posts a link to Artpad on the official forums, asking people to draw something WoW-related. Artpad is a neat thing for letting people draw and share their drawings on the internet -- it's even neater for letting you see the process they went through in order to draw their work. The latest post of this kind has a grab bag of really good art and non-sensical, or even one or two profane sketches.

Still, the quality of the art that's there (especially if you skip page two of the thread) is worth a look. Some of it is beautiful, and some of it makes you chuckle a bit. If you're not in the mood to sift through the good and the bad of the post, here are my five personal favorites in the thread as it is at the time of this writing.

Night Elf maiden (pictured above)
Draenei maiden
Orc huntress
Murloc and Tauren
Facing Ragnaros

Can you draw something on artpad or find something someone else has drawn about World of Warcraft and link it for us in the comments below? Let's see how WoW Insider reader's art compares to the readers of the forums!

Tags: art, artpad, forum, forum post of the day, ForumPostOfTheDay, warcraft, world of warcraft, WorldOfWarcraft, wow

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-11-2007 @ 1:28PM

Rev said...

Facing Ragnarok, Shouldn't it be Ragnaros?
Anyway pretty neat stuff, I know I suck at artpad.

6-11-2007 @ 1:35PM

David Bowers said...

Oops! Sorry, slip of the fingers. I fixed it. :)

6-11-2007 @ 1:55PM

Rokza said...

That draenei looks an aweful lot like a bloodelf...

6-11-2007 @ 2:21PM

Savok said...

I disagree, Blood Elves have have much sharper features.

Also I hate these people for being talented.

6-11-2007 @ 2:35PM

Oldbear said...

I tried to make my own picture for Artpad... But there wasn't a crayon and napkin option. /hang head in shame

6-11-2007 @ 2:55PM

Markov said...

Funny about the Muloc and Tauren. That must have been done quite a while ago, because those two blizzard posters, caydiem and fangtooth, have been gone from the forums for a while.

6-11-2007 @ 4:28PM

omenzhe said...

@6 I think that the Orc Huntress was actually drawn by Caydiem, if my memory serves me correctly.

Oh, the good old days!

6-11-2007 @ 5:20PM

JonS said...

Yeah i've done a few myself :)

Dwarf
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?io4qaoo0x1c

Troll
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?io6mla1javu4

Jon S - Xil - Arthas server - The butchers

6-11-2007 @ 8:15PM

Jonny McCormack said...

JonS, those are fantastic. Nice work =)

6-11-2007 @ 8:27PM

JonS said...

Thanks, i might make a few more later :P

6-11-2007 @ 11:48PM

admbrink said...

I found this one on that thread, I thought it was pretty good.
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?jjgjjbz2eu4

6-12-2007 @ 7:32AM

Sirylcat said...

http://artpad.art.com/?jjisv01eirp0

My Blood elf Priest character, 'Luchiel'. =D

6-12-2007 @ 9:05AM

KyleZ said...

Guess who!

http://artpad.art.com/?jjixjsbtre4

6-12-2007 @ 11:54PM

Medros said...

I remember when this first came up, 2 years ago, in the WoW forums. Caydiem, a CM at the time, posted a link to a few she had done, and my first thought was that if she wasn't such an Awesome community support person, she should be in the Art team.

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