First version of this picture was made back in 2008 - before I played WoW, but already was inspired by Warcraft 3. A lot have changed since then, I changed my artistic view and skills, and also I explored WoW very well. I learned for myself that original in-game representation of taurens was lovely enough, and my speculations of 2008 year brought nothing but dusty fantasy stereotypes. I made tauren females too humanized and eroticized, but their true originality and spirit consists in being a bit harsh, big and authentic characters. Generally 2008 version had many silly moments, including high heels (very "practical"), symbol of alliance on the... boots (why not on the soles after all?), tails bent into rings for taurens, biceps swollen to the size of the torso for male tauren, flimsy childish arms and naive facial expressions for women, goofy clothes and weapons, deformed joints and complete nonsense like strange little kitbags mounted to the belt by little chains. 2016 version isn't remake, but a big substantial update, especially for female tauren. Both females on this picture gained more muscle and fat, human female received some scars, males have become smaller and more elegant. I think it made entire picture more balanced. Difference between two tauren characters remains too big, but I decided not to go too far from 2008 version, cuz it's just an update, not remake. I assume that tauren female Waffuree Khalme is just somewhat younger then male tauren (20+ and 40+), and also she's smaller-then average for female tauren, while this male is just random tauren of average height for male. Yep, this is where picture isn't very representative, it would be wiser to keep Waffa for her personal portrayings and to use random-and-average tauren woman for pictures like this, but again - I made an update of this picture, not remake. Back in 2008 I decided to use Waffa to represent tauren females on this sheet, so be it. What with previous portraying of Waffuree? It will not be lost entirely. I will depict Tauren youngsters in a similar key, but without erotization, of course.
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