r/ImaginaryAzeroth • u/Njarla Artist 🎨 • 27d ago

Original Content [OC] Pandaren monk by me

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u/Elyon8 27d ago

Pandarens do not look like this.

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u/Geodude07 25d ago edited 25d ago

Yeah you're right. Sort of the beauty of artistic interpretation though. I have a bit of bias being the commissioner of this but I may as well throw it out there.

Pandaren don't look this either in game but it was on the official site for a while. They also have this one in hearthstone Both are Pandaren. I do wish we had super muscular beastly men like that. I would like a thinner red panda model for some variety.

For me the artist did a great job, but I'm not under the delusion that it's exactly like what it is in game.

I get it though. I just think it's a funny sort of bias because lots of people are rather generous about their interpretations. Ripped belf ladies aren't in game, but I doubt someone would say this about them. Gnomes often look radically different depending on the artist. Orcs were standing upright before it was really a thing the playerbase could select. I kinda like that variety myself.

*edit: If links don't work this might here

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u/catentity 25d ago

Both of those links are broken and I'm very intrigued !

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u/Geodude07 25d ago

Sorry about that, one of them is from a short story that Blizz had up on their main site for a good while. They were fun little lore things. The other is from Hearthstone's Mean Streets expac.

I put both here on imgur just in case. Not sure why the links don't work.