Mud/Rain OC Concepts; Based On My Two Fursonas

Might try this soon

Here is my 2024 #SMAUGUST prompt list!

31 Days of drawing, writing, crafting, celebrating DRAGONS! 🐲

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My pretty girl! After animating her I've really grown to like her design. Unsure if I want to add chin waddles or not.

Trying to figure out a name for her. The closest cool fish I've found is the lantern fish. Not sure if I want to call her lantern though.

She glows a LOT as her darker scales accent the bright light and her fins make her appear to always be glowing.

I know she has a few buddies I'm working on drawing too.

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!

Qibli design as the first of this blog!

I'm also using him as a temprary pfp so I don't look too botlike (aside from seeing my username... but you get the idea)

out of all the characters, I have the most specific LGBT headcanons for him... he's pansexual ambiamorous and trans no explination needed

The quality on tumblr is fucking sick, heres another drawing i did for a dtiys on insta, its also a scene from the WOF novel (wings of fire)

It's hard to find a good place to put your roos. 50/50 chance for a male, what do you do when you don't need half your flock

So! I went to visit the nice lady with the rooster sanctuary, it seems like a passion project for her and her family. She couldn’t remember exactly which boys were mine, so we looked all over her flock and I couldn’t see any of them! Most likely, unless some were hiding, they all got adopted! So, I still want some more boys in my flock, I took two New Sons home with me instead! They’ll be quarantined in the little coop behind my house for two weeks, but here they are!

I was convinced this was one of mine until I looked more closely at his feet - I thought this was the Favaucana with 5 toes on one foot and four on the other. But, he’s got normal toesies. Still, while the lady was holding him while I looked at the rest of the flock, he started falling asleep in her arms, which was so sweet I decided to take him anyway! I love that beard, and I was hoping for a black rooster!

And this guy! Such a pretty boy, with big sweet eyes, and a gentle demeanor. In this photo, you can see the black roo has a split comb, I actually think it looks awesome and unique even though it’s technically a flaw.

So yeah! Fun stuff! I hope they both grow up to be gentlemen, and that they’ll get along with everyone!

This is an old OC of mine who actually has a name. I'm pretty sure mangrove was a rain wing name but there is considerable overlap between the two tribes loose territory that I think works as a mudding name too.

She's a lil darker than I expected, I think I need to counter the coloring with some lighter horns, but I like her a lot

Since she's an old OC, of course she has a tragic backstory.

She got lost as a dragonet playing with her siblings and ended up floating down stream. Unable to find her way back home, she started following other older sib groups. Not always welcome but eager to learn, she developed a generally friendly repour with the population around her. As she grew she started to wonder about her lost family from years ago and started traveling up stream to find them.

I want to use her development to explore the mudding cast system. If not by blood, then how do they decide who is more important or who should be allowed in the palace? What are their jobs, how do they grow crops, canals????

they should let you get xrays and mris just cause. i wanna see what my skelinton looks like. i wanna see my organs and shit

Queen Snowfall: A Haiku

The queen of IceWings,

With regal scales of shining

White is Queen Snowfall.

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I like sitting in the hot car