Media - Old Wynncraft Art And Artstyle Analysis With Ya Boy Luxio - First Website Stuff

Hello everyone!
It's ya Boy, LuxioTenorio, back from the grave for the 3rd of 4th time.

Today we're gonna take a brief look at the very old stuff I made for Wynncraft back in 2013 to when I had to quit. I'll also go into some detail about the mind process and kind of stuff that was behind all of these very outdated pieces and please keep in mind what I'm showing you is like from centuries ago and my art style has changed a lot and all that.

Anyways lemme introduce myself because I know many of you dont even know me at this point lol.
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Heyo, I am Luxio, also known as LuxioTenorio way back in the day. I used to be the first official artist for WynnCraft since 2013, a little before the closed beta. Since then I've been providing Salted and The Guys with some artwork at their request but as of late years I've been kind of dismissed because reasons ill talk a bit later in this thread so stay tuned for Real Life Drama. I also was a Moderator on this server when AbyssalMelody13 was still a thing also cheers to you if you even remember Fibunny and Filifolia. I was chosen to be the Wynncraft artist as I made myself some reputation as the Guy who Drew things on the CraftedMovie forums; chosen by Grian himself after I drew a silly drawing of a Zombie that I cannot seem to find anymore. Nowadays I'm just a starving artist who is willing to pay to be featured somewhere and hopefully get the money back somehow.

But enough about me lets talk about the spicy stuff now shall we!
I present to you the many (just 2) faces WynnCraft had at the very beginning, website made when @Tama and HiMyNameIsAJ were around.

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So lets start talking about the very first thing I've done for WynnCraft: the Logo.
Here's the very first logo in its full outdated glory:

As you can see it looks very weird and kind of goofy but it was accepted by Salted and The Guys because it pretty much nailed what WynnCraft was like 5 years ago. The guidelines were simple: a cartoony fantasy setting that takes place in a world filled with ruins and structures and beautiful nature.

Style-wise this was when I mostly didn't know that colored lineart looks better than just a flat black outline on things, but what carries on even today is the "messy" and "sketchy" lines, but this wasnt me rushing everything trying to get things done; actually there's a meaning why the lines had to be very rough but i'll talk about that in a sec.

Then after the logo, after pinning down some guidelines with Salted, he ended up asking me to draw the website's background header. This was such a HUGE challenge for me because all I've done before that was just silly sketches and the occasional colored drawing. This took me so much to make because I had to sketch, draw the polished lineart, color and then shade the whole thing. Here you can see the actual style taking some sort of shape: you have these sketchy rough drawings of cartoony fantasy Minecraft characters.
Although I never really reached the full potential of my style with WynnCraft, you can see that it was trying to be something different than the average realistic dark hystorical medieval fantasy themed stuff that was very common back then.


Unfortunately lots of the old website stuff is gone forever as we all have changed PCs also I had this bad thing where I would delete stuff just because I didnt like it anymore. But one thing is for sure: the website looked very dark. The colors as you can see are very obscure and dull. And this thing had to change and thankfully it did with the second WynnCraft website.


The second website was literally a breathe of fresh air as I literally took the whole thing outside caves and whatnot. Colors became more vibrant and lots of other things were explored. Lots of work hours and blood and sweat and literal tears were put into the new website and even if it looks derpy sometimes and even if i know I can do way better now I'm still proud of everything that I made.

WynnCraft 2nd website Update:



This was definitely the right direcion for WynnCraft as the game started to take a very nice shape.
Here I tried to experiment using brush settings more and using colors to really give that feel that things were alive and in some sort of Fairy tale - mystical place. The dark and dull became colorful bright, and the main palette was born: Browns and Greens and Yellows :^)


The change of "theme" and colors was necessary to keep things fresh.

Okay so, apparently there is a limit to images I can upload in a thread and for some reason image links are not working, so I will try to continue somehow talking about the second WynnCraft website on another episode, maybe probably as a comment below somewhere in this very same thread, unless someone with better experience with how this website works now can help me
( @Pepinho pls help me what do I do do I start a new thread as Episode II or what should I do q_q)

Ahem anyways, let me talk a lil bit about the new logo, which is still the inspiration of the current one.
New Logo introduced a few new elements of the Universe of WynnCraft which actually came before the lore and concepts were even there (lmao).
Yes we're talking about Golden Eye Illuminati Dorito Stuff over there and the weird Green thing at the bottom. These were the introduction of the Corruption element in the WynnCraft Universe. This new Logo design was important because it gave Wynn a more iconic look and presentation where in the older logo everything was like very generic and not so memorable. The Hexahedron shape is like an official theme in the artstyle also: this shape represents Minecraft itself, as it's just the silouhette of a cube in perspecitve.

And as for the constant sky pictures; WynnCraft, atleast for me, has always been more of a Fairy Tale/Fables Book kind of thing, you know, instead of being something trying to be hystorically accurate, and things like The Legend of Zelda inspired a lot of the work I did for it.

On the Next Episode (AKA I'll edit this very same Thread later in the Night):
We'll take a very in-depth look at the 2nd Website stuff, with lots of more pics and things I have to say about!
Sorry I had to end it here but like really im trying to figure out how to make this work; I'll totes ask some Mod or smth to help me do this.

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EPISODE II:

Heyo its Ya Boy 03:24AM here with some more spicy stuff about the Wynn art.
So like last time I talked about the very first art there was and there wasnt that much to talk about but to sumarize: guidelines for the art were a Fantasy cartoonish world fairy tale/fable book - lookalike with some Minecraft vibes. The execution of the thing was kinda okay with the characters and all the lil details here and there, not too bad, but colors were off and everything just looked so dark and claustrophobic.

The Main WynnCraft theme:

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So to change that I literally took the scenery from deep below to waaay up there in the sky, with the new Forum theme.


So the new Corruption elements were added to the mix even before Corruption was a thing in the Work in Progress lore. As thing ingame took form, so the art for the website would try to represent those things.


Things started to take their own shape outside of the normal Minecraft character look because I thought that my current Minecraft blocky style looked a bit too generic and very limiting. I wanted to do something more than that so I tried to make these very wonky-anatomy characters that have no sense whatsoever because my sense of character design back then was literally non-existant. Nonetheless it was something very fun to explore and it was kind of a new challenge because it meant to go outside of my comfort zone to try something new, but like, thats the only way to improve things art-wise.


So I experimented some character concepts for the stuff that made no sense in Minecraft whatsoever and tried to translate it in some way. Here's for example one of the first mini-bosses added into the game which was literally a zombie with a spawner block on its head. I took inspiration from that and then I made this zombie-lookin' dude with a cage on its head, probably a thing that was so damaged by corruption, people chained it and caged it to prevent it of harming others. Those little Minecraft things that looked silly would become inspiration to make things around the mobs and then when the concept art was made, little stories would be made around them to help me create the look and feel i wanted to achieve.


Here is a good af example of that concept of taking silly Minecraft stuff into something that would become the universe of WynnCraft: I took that easy to recognise shape of the Iron Golem dudes and twisted it a lil bit. And ofcourse I added the characteristic rose to the design to really give the idea that this dude is kinda special. I dont know. I actually made a whole background story of a specific Iron golem that I cant remember at all atm.

These ofc if you didnt know were a scrapped project for WynnCraft Merch that didnt make it for some reason; these would be printed in shirts or whatever. Here you have the infamous sheep you can get pink wool from. The sheep's fluff actually has edges and corners if you look closely because I tried to still remind people its Minecraft but its its own thing at the same time.

Everyone seems to like this pig a lot, at least back in the day, and I can see why tbh.
It featured stuff like potions, my iconic Spear design and some other weaps. I really did try hard to add some sort of character to this lil fella, and people appreciated the effort and attempt. Nowadays I could do a bit better tho.


Lots of items I drew would follow some sort of guidelines that made things more easy to recognise. Compasses and blocky objects would always be in a hex-like shape, skulls would be square etc.

SO YEAH anyway back on track.
As you can see it was such a fun thing to explore all these things and things finally started to look really neat because both the game and the website were kind of in perfect harmony.
Now that the formula or art style settled in, event and new theme art would be made in the future to make things spicier, adding new art content on the Website depending on the occasion!

The Wynnter Update:

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Wynnter was there and I was not ready to make new things from scratch because sadly that time is where my life started to become r o u g h .
So I tried my best to make something that didnt look like utter garbage so I used the already existing stuff and changed some things here and there. TBH if I could go back in time with all the knowledge i have right now I woudlnt have done such a lazy thing, but once again, life happened and I really had my hands tied up.

Wynnter Update also added the sweet Dark Theme everyone wanted and tbh I am still very proud of Dark theme. It really went nice with the Wynnter logo and all that. Starry Night best theme 2k14.

Mob Update:

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For the Mob Update I wanted to try a different color palette, one that would be more halloween-ish but basically very red and brown and yellow tones. The sunset represents the fact that the Night is just there around the corner so better watch out or whatever. This was still me just playing with some brush settings and whatnot but I kinda liked how things looked and I went for it. Im not sure if this made it to be a Forum Theme but OH WELL.

At this time I was really deep into a spiral of problems that made me back off A LOT from everything I liked to do, so this update didnt get as many new things art-wise sadly. It all went so wrong from there on.

On Next Episode:
we'll talk about the last but unused Wynncraft stuff that was baking in the oven and why I suddenly disappeared from the face of Earth.

Stay tuned and stay awesome <3

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EPISODE III:
Hello its Ya Boy 4:20AM But Still Depressed AF here with some final spicy stuff about the Wynn stuff.

So as the years were going and my life literally became something I still cant handle nowadays, lots of good projects for the website were basically scrapped because I couldnt get myself out of bed to finish a drawing or two. Which was a very sad thing because the Wynn style was going to evolve once again:
Three new Themes for the Forums were ready but they never made it into the Forums because I suddenly decided to disappear from everything and everyone.

Sunset Theme

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Here as you can see background-wise it was still primitive stuff but the Character design got WAY better, coloring was Gucci and the lineart became very crispy and very clean. The use of cheap brushes to make the clouds was scrapped and instead I used an even crappier way to make the sky but it looked alright with the rest of the pic.

Night Theme

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This one tbh is very nice. Colors are simple and everything is simple but I think it really conveys the feel that I tried to make with this piece. This would become later the HalloWynn theme after I left.

The VIP Theme

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This was a very fun one to do, doing all the lines for the books and whatnot. I literally wanted to die but the end result was kind of good? This would be some sort of VIP theme on the Forums.

Unfortunately the will to keep doing what I love (which is drawing) wasnt enought to keep me going. So from 2015 I think I stopped drawing. Quite literally stopped drawing. I couldnt hold a pencil anymore, pen tablet started to gather layers and layers of dust. This was so critical that I literally don't know how to color and polish lineart anymore. My art literally had a retrograde and I couldnt finish full drawings anymore. I became useless as a human being because the only thing I was good for basically disappeared. Salted & The Gang couldnt really rely on me anymore so they had to pass the ball to another artist I wont talk about because tbh i dont like what they did with the new Wynn artwork and i could stay hours here to judge and be a dick about it but its time to be the better man and accept the fact that maybe even if the current style doesnt really match the original feel WynnCraft tried to achieve it was all my fault that I couldnt keep up with the job as the artist.

Nonetheless I appreciate the fact that they tried to make some changes to the Website to make it look fresh even tho to me it didnt really happen. I dont know who the current Wynn artist is but I still wanna hope and trust and believe they'll do something great to revive the artstyle that was growing up.

On the next Episode:
I'll showcase some of my new art and maybe doodle some stuff WynnCraft related to show you what I mean with "I improved a lot since that last time" and "I literally cant finish a drawing like I used to"

 

nice thread i appreciate

 

This is some throwback stuff! Glad to have you back Luxio (again) Looking forward to seeing the other pictures you still have saved from the good ole days

 

Artist's depiction of Nostalgia

 

also neat

 

Heyo everyone! I updated the thread a lil bit with Episode II
I'll try to organise it more bc its too crowded and im bad at formatting things

Sorry

Also I immensely apologise for my broken english
its been 10 ddamn years but I still get it so wrong

sorry again

 

tbh I don't remember any new official art since the Gavel Update, except for a new logo every time there's an update.

 

Always nice to see old faces now and again :D

 

(~˘▾˘)~ This thread is amazing!

 

lit shit fam

for real though it's nice to see you're still doing okay

 

This stuff is frickin awesome, and I really liked that VIP theme design, even if it didn't make the cut in the end.

Nice to have you back though c:

oh and @LoveLusting you should totally make us some cool new forum themes too coughcougjh

 

Wow. I remember the "Lets go into that cave with the eye on it for loot" picture.
But wait... what was that long tower thing with the house on the side meant to be?
It looks like a glitched chunk.

 

This is wynncraft nostalgia at its finest. Thank you luxio!