siggy's cake

I realized how horribly compressed this image was on Twitter, so I'm gonna repost it here on Patreon too where it's actually HQ and you can see every detail.

Anyways I created this picture in record time a few weeks back for my best friend's special wolf day. Sigvald Steelhammer (@SigvaldSteelham) / Twitter in case you don't know who he is yet, Dwarf extraordinaire. 

You might wanna read what I said in this other post for some extra context. For those of you that can't, lemme quickly sum it up for you. Siggy commissioned me for a Dwarf project, but it ended up being the one commission ever that I failed to complete for a variety of reasons. We ended our arrangement amicably, but since he's my best friend I always felt bad for failing him.

So I wanted to use his special wolf day as an opportunity to make things right. Although this isn't what he commissioned, I would say it captures the spirit of everything that he wanted. I won't get into what that is exactly (ask him yourself since it's personal), but you can certainly glean.

Fittingly, I reused many of the spectators from his failed commission verbatim in this new picture with great success, while adding a few new ones. My original idea here was to have a variety of different people of different races and genders laughing (or being disgusted) at Siggy, but since the set and existing NPCs were already so skewed towards Alliance, it would feel weird to just have a random moo or Orc be a part of the crowd. So aside from the clear rat infestation that this tavern has, I had to be a just a little more creative with how I integrated the few members of the Horde into this shot. One of them is obviously that giant painting of Baine, another infamous cuckold. Hey, at least I haven't forgotten about him, and he's a great complement to this project.

There are also a lot of callbacks and references to some of my oldest projects and one-off pictures. I don't expect any of you to have encyclopediac knowledge of my works like I do, so I'll help you cheat with identifying one such reference. Look at the third pic that I've attached, which is from a project all the way back in 2016. It should be pretty obvious, and yet it is only one of many little references I've snuck into this pic. Try to catch them all, I suppose.

With all of this being said, unfortunately I am still resolved to not create any future content featuring Dwarves. Siggy understands that I don't particularly like them, but I'm always willing to go 110% to make him happy. If you enjoy Dwarf content yourself, you should really politely poke him (or even ak0) instead.