Queen Snowfall: A Haiku

I’ve had awful art block lately, but Scarlet has set me free.

My headcanon voice for her is Susan Sarandon’s portrayal of Queen Narissa from Enchanted. It’s perfectly villainous, theatrical, on the deeper side, and has a fittingly raspy quality to it. It helps that many of Narissa’s lines sound exactly like something Scarlet would say. I ended up listening to her lines on loop for the duration of this sketch. Also ended up drawing inspiration from her for Scarlet’s physical appearance as well. They’re both evil queens so it fits.

Final sketch paired with my first iteration. Didn’t give her any jewelry this time around but I’ve got some concepts in the works.

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

Your art is amazing. Because of you I have found so many new fandoms to look into. You draw humans so well and I dream of being able to someday reach your skill level

One thing I both love and hate about my art is that my art is so clearly Just For Me. It’s a style that I like, it’s featuring characters that I like…

The upside is that I am always surrounded by art of things I love

The downside is that very few other people see it the same way and that’s frustrating, bc I feel like it’s lovable, bc I love it (until I don’t) and I think a lot of other people could too if they gave it a chance

I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

MorrowSeer and his wife Secretkeeper. I have an AU idea I'm working on where this couple both have the idea to hide their egg in the rainforest, at the persuasion of Mastermind of course

Explanation below the cut

MasterMind found a fragment of an old book referenceing the connection between the moon and the Nightwing powers. He did not dismiss this literature as a work of fiction because it was authored by a well known scientist of old about the possible connection between nutrition of the mother while laying the egg and the speed of the produced hatchling's development.

The article addressed both the physical and psychic development of the hatchling, acknowledging the small sample size of MoonBorn dragonets as a potential error in their research.

MoonBorn was a common term in the legends of powered Nightwings. Most assumed MoonBorn to be a name, perhaps the name of a powerful seer who predicted other seers hatching. But if it was instead a condition of hatching, could the powers of old be real?

Fewer and fewer Nightwings were being hatched each year. The selection of possible 'test subjects' was few, and the conditions on the island were all wrong.

The punishment for being caught were severe, BattleWinner did not view treason lightly. But the benefits... If his research was correct... He could be responsible for the hatching of the first seer in centuries.

He needed an egg, preferably willing parents, and an opportunity granted only to those most loyal to the queen.

A double moonlit sky was approaching, he had less than a year.

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I'm still working on this concept. I want to explore a world where Secretkeeper and MorrowSeer have similar goals and ideas. Where Moon's abilities are a goal her parents tried to achieve. And where she is trained by both her mother and father.

I might retcon this later though. Perhaps MasterMind thought the moons would make the dragonet an Animus instead, and the mind reading and seer powers were an unexpected result. Perhaps the queen finds out about this plan before it's fully carried out. Perhaps the RainWings find the egg and take it with them to their hatchery. Who knows. I plan to make this a comic as a sort of art practice. Any and all feedback is appreciated.

sigh. i cant believe im doing this.

if this gets 8k notes by the first week of october ill promise to stay alive one more year.

people at the grocery store sometimes do a visible double-take about how many vegetables I'm buying. they look at me probably thinking wow she's so healthy! it's ok that she's also buying donuts! she's earned them!

you fools. all the produce is for my pet pig. I'm eating donuts for dinner.

Lineart and coloring of Coil Drake skull anatomy. Coil Drakes, belong to a group of wyvernids defined by their serpent-like bodies and mobile maxilla called Snake Wyverns. All types of snake wyverns use their mobile maxilla as a means to process food, by moving their maxilla in an up and down motion to slice and crush their food. Coil drakes are unique among snake wyverns as they possess all four of their limbs compared to Lindwyrms who only have their arms remaining and Wyrms which have lost all their limbs. These drakes get their name for their long serpentine bodies and their habit to coil their bodies upon itself when resting.

Wyvernids are diapsids like all reptiles but aren't true reptiles. Belonging to a group of stem reptiles defined by the presence of two middle ear bones instead of the one of other reptiles and the three present in mammals. Allowing them to hear higher frequencies, around 30kHz compared to the 5kHz of reptiles, 10kHz of birds, and the over 50kHz most mammals can hear. Wyvernids are also defined by goethite nanofibers in their bones, like limpet teeth, making their bones the strongest seen in nature. The last distinction between Wyvernids and other reptiles is their lack of a cloaca, instead possessing a genital slit with their anus, and excretory organs all being separate openings in the genital slit.

Shapes!!

moose

I think the wofblr community would enjoy this,

Some fan made book covers I modeled as a mockup, hoping I can try to make one or two of them!! Darkstalkers is my favourite and I will definitely be trying to make one or two to give to tui at the fanwing fest if i end up going.

A few details: any books with either an animus protag or is heavily influenced by animus magic have plated talon prints instead of a darker leather, moons has the silver teardrop, and each book has a small Roman numeral on the top of the spine. The seawing protags also have webbed talon prints.