Contest! Make Your Own Mount And Win Some!

[Shostakovich]

This is a fun contest.

Here's a Pandaran designated driver. Not so much a mount, though. Just the general method of traveling through Pandaria, like a flightpath.

[SpiritBinder]

Sadly I have not got around to having much time to draw these days, but here are some mounts that I had already done before that I thought would be nice in a wow environment.

The 1st 2 are just concepts, in fact, most of these are but the 1st 2 are rather rough. I was trying for go for a very different style to a "drake". Not that I mind drakes, but my goodness we certainly have a lot of them





This one was inspired by Malfurion's mount from WC3, I was kind of channeling the emerald dream





and lastly, one that I had posted before and looks more like a Cata mount rather than Panda, but a new mount idea none the less

[Acherontia]

Oooh, so entering this! Very cool art thus far

[Bulletdance]

Wow! We've got amazing entries so far! Is anyone else plannign on entering? I figure next friday I'll start the judging.

[cowmuflage]

Oh shit. Totally forgot >> I'll post mine before friday!

[Malackai]

Yea I need to start mine unfortunately I got sick last week meh>_>

I hope I get it done by Friday

[Acherontia]

I'm hoping to finish mine tomorrow or the next day--Thursday at the latest. I'm just trying not to rush it, although it's not turning out how I'd planned anyway

[SpiritBinder]

This one was Wain's idea, just helping him post it

Cloud of the Simian King



And one for the ladies of course

[Wain]

Beautifully done, thank you! Spiritbinder has more artistic talent in his little pinky than I have in my whole body, so I had no intention of posting anything. I'm so glad he did

The cloud concept is borrowed from the Chinese Fable "Journey to the West", which I admit I have not read, but it was lightheartedly adapted for television in the 70s as "Monkey Magic", which was popular here in Australia. In the TV show, Monkey (Sun Wukong, the Monkey King) can summon a cloud to fly through the sky. In the original text I think it was the pig demon who could do this, while Monkey could leap enormous distances instead.

In practice it could function in the same way as the flying discs in Eye of Eternity. They'd just have to change the model to look like a cloud, maybe add a puffy vapour trail after it, or some roiling cloud effects. Aside from white there could be stormy grey and sunset red-orange models.

[cowmuflage]

I just drew mine inking later today.

[cowmuflage]

Um I have it and it's all ready but DA wont let me load anything so I'll try and upload it to something else and post it then.

[cowmuflage]

*Ahem*

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Sorry about the colours was a rush job. Hence why theres little to no shadeing.

[Acherontia]

I love it, cow! Looks awesome

Here's mine--sorry it's frigging gigantic! I really couldn't get it exactly right, but oh well >.< It's a kitsune mount; the magical, sometimes multi-tailed, fox from various Oriental (mostly Japanese iirc) folklore.



Full version uploaded here

[SpiritBinder]

Here's mine--sorry it's frigging gigantic! I really couldn't get it exactly right, but oh well >.< It's a kitsune mount; the magical, sometimes multi-tailed, fox from various Oriental (mostly Japanese iirc) folklore

OMG that looks SOOooooooooooo... oooooooooo oooo Friggen Cool!

So much better than the wow foxes we have as pets, seriously! The size of it is actually spot on (I'm sick of feeling like I'm crushing my poor mount), It looks elegant, strong, vicious and noble all in one!, I love the the fact it has many tails, but not specifically 9 (I get that in the myth it is meant to have nine, but a lot of designs with nine tails look like helifoxes)

I really like it, great work Ache!

[Malackai]

I love it, cow! Looks awesome

Here's mine--sorry it's frigging gigantic! I really couldn't get it exactly right, but oh well >.< It's a kitsune mount; the magical, sometimes multi-tailed, fox from various Oriental (mostly Japanese iirc) folklore.


Full version uploaded here

Ooh that one looks nice I like it

I will try to finish mine tonight when I get home.

[Malackai]

Well here is one of my mounts I had 3 ideas (a water, land and air mount)
but the ideas i had of the land and air mount actually already existed >_>

so when i fount a picture of the new fishies in MOP i decided to turn one of them in a mount

So here is my koi fish mount.



It started out as a normal mount you would have been able to fish from the mop pools. however when I started coloring it pretty much turned into a alliance version of the fish mount >_>

I might make a horde version too when I got the time.

I kinda ended up rushing it but it came out pretty oke I hope :3

[Bulletdance]

Oh man they're all really good you guys made my job of judging hard But the good news is hopefully I'll have some help! Alright guys contest is officially closed as it is friday! So from now til monday I'd like you guys to vote for your fav! Just pm me the mount that is your favorite (just the name please I am lazy and reading a lot makes me tired ) Monday night if I get some time I'll announce the winner and send over the code! If not then I will defiently do it tuesday. Good luck everyone and great job! Oh and no voting for yourselves.

[Wain]

That Koi mount is a beautiful concept I never considered water mounts and it'd be perfect

[Acherontia]

That Koi mount is a beautiful concept I never considered water mounts and it'd be perfect

I agree, would love to see an orange/white version, maybe with black armor, for Horde?

Also, a thank you to those who commented on mine--from what I read it can be 3-9 tails, so I just tried to go with something that wouldn't look ridiculous

[Malackai]

That Koi mount is a beautiful concept I never considered water mounts and it'd be perfect

I agree, would love to see an orange/white version, maybe with black armor, for Horde?

Also, a thank you to those who commented on mine--from what I read it can be 3-9 tails, so I just tried to go with something that wouldn't look ridiculous

ill see if I can get one done this week
mabye a reddish black one for horde and a orange white one as a fishing drop :3