Gill With And Without Water

Thank you so much to those who offered feedback on the new version preview page - the main dragon builder has now been updated! Custom colors, expressions, different types of legs, plenty more!

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Dragon Builder - MonsterBrainSoup

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Some silkwing doodles

#ToucanTuesday:

Art Deco Toucan Bookends by Hippolyte François Moreau (1832-1927), France, 1920s. Bronze sculptures on marble base, H 5.12 in (13 cm) x W 6.3 in (16 cm) x D 3.15 in (8 cm) each.

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

Your feeble games have yet again failed to identify me. I am the incarnate form of nuance.

SO TRUE BUT HEY

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.

twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.

i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good a cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.

so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.

I love the expressions on these guys. The faces look so squishy and cool

Next up in the requests: @threemoonwatchers suggested Fathom and @incorporeal-entity suggested Clearsight, so I decided to draw them together! This is one of my favorite scenes of them, where they meet for the first time and Clearsight is overjoyed to see Fathom. She’s seen him in countless visions and already feels like they’re best friends, and while Fathom hasn’t met Clearsight until now, I imagine he’s so, so happy to meet someone who has faith and trust in him after a lifetime being shunned by his tribe. They both got happy endings, but it hurts my heart to know they probably never saw each other again after the events of Darkstalker.

logo design concept for the definitely-not-evil organization from our fallout rp. kinda pleased with it 👍

Nice

Okay so just as an experiment since the point of the Peril design I made was supposed to be "relatively quick to finish" I decided to see how fast I could actually finish it??

So for once my daily dragon is in full color vectorized. Took me, uh... checks notes three hours, once I remove the hour for eating dinner in the middle there?? Not bad!!

I skipped a lot of the polish stuff I do for my more committed full illustrations? Like there's no color variation in her face and her eyes are vastly simplified, but if I was going to actually make a PMV I imagine I'd take similar steps if not more drastic ones. So I think that's pretty fitting.