First Part Of An Animation Comm For Tahina Of His Leafwing OC!

wings of fire fandom did we all forget about the strange looking pre-scorching dragons because it’s been over 2 years since TFOH and I have seen NO artwork nor headcannons about Freedom’s mother / the first dragon queen

This looks awesome

Commission! Been a while since I got the chance to draw a rootaur c:

I like this

DUUUDDEEE your art is insane!! I ADORE the scales you draw and render, and how you make so much of your illustrations look like real work staff from WoF would make! Do you have any tips for scales? Rendering? Drawing them :0?

thank you so much!! for scales, i'd recommend avoiding circle shapes and instead go for a more angular hexagonal shape! it reduces weird gaps in between the scales and makes the texture look a lot more tight-knit and interconnected

as for rendering, i think my best tip would be to start with shadows first. make a shadow layer, fill it in entirely with the base color for the shadows, and carve out the light source by erasing parts of the shadow layer. I've been trying out a new method of rendering which takes a lot less time but gives the same if not better results (using a color layer on multiply above a greyscale render layer with a color overlay to add color to the shadows! i'll go more in depth with this once i have a finished example piece to break down)

and i usually render scales by filling in each individual scale above the lineart to create an alpha mask and i use a clipping group using the mask

scale mask (normal layer mode, 100% opacity)

set to "color dodge" at 40% opacity, additional "shadow" layer (black color layer set to "erase" above the layers in the clipping group) used to create depth!

Uhhhhjj should I try to get into art fight this year? Finals r coming up and I don't want to. But I want to... Ahhhhhhh

Dang, how long did this even take??!! It's beautiful and has so many complicated design details. Wow

What I've been working on! This is part 43 for the Escargot Wings of Fire map (multi animator project). I'm also working on part 55!

Link to the project: https://youtu.be/V3ocGCrz9aA?si=WQjTYbJRP37QCcrw

Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

I suppose the big reason I prefer to draw a line between steampunk (i.e., taking modern ideas about what a high-tech society ought to look like and projecting them backwards onto an imagined 1890s) and Victorian retrofuturism (i.e., taking what people who actually lived in the 1890s imagined the year 2000 would look like and running with it) is because the second one is typically way more batshit than the first. Steampunk gets you giant robot spiders; Victorian retrofuturism gets you a habitable Lunar surface populated by anthropomorphic bat people. These are both very cool, but the latter has a certain something the former lacks.

I never actually drew one of the wof chracters, so have the blue one (He's bluer under the cut)

from a photo

Little toad guy! Rescued a toad from my grandma's pool. Thought it's colors were pretty and drew this guy.

Sometimes I am a little unsure of my drawings. I want them to be the best I've ever drawn, but my skills aren't usually up for the task. This little guy is a reminder for myself that my art doesn't have to be amazing, it just has to be fun. And I did have fun.