You Are What You Eat
Day one of COTLTOBER by @stychu-stych
here's my wonderful isopod child, handcrafted in leather
Please ask about my lamb
1. Does your lamb go by any name other than The Lamb? If so, what?
2. How old was your lamb when they were sacrificed?
3. How long was your lamb held captive by heretics before their sacrifice?
4. Did your lamb kill anyone prior to their first death? If so, who?
5. When your lamb mourns a dead loved one from their past.. who is it?
6. Who raised your lamb?
7. Where was your lamb raised? A village? A prison? Constantly on the run?
8. Did your lamb have any specific skills pre-sacrifice?
9. How or where was your lamb caught?
10. How did your lamb feel with their head on the pedestal? Afraid? Relieved? Angry?
11. Does your lamb have any notable or unique features?
12. How tall is your lamb?
13. Is your lamb petite? Curvy? Fucking jacked?
14. Is your lambās wool pure white?
15. How does your lamb prefer to keep their wool? Short and shorn neat? Wild and untrimmed? Be honest are there branches in that bitch?
16. Do you base your lamb on any specific species of sheep? If so, which?
17. Do they use their own wool for anything?
18. On a scale of one to ten how floppy are their ears?
19. Do they bear any traits of forced domestication? Is their tail docked? Was their ear tagged? Do they have scars from being shorn (and nicked) against their will? Were they ever painted with or assigned a number rather than a name?
20. What do their horns look like?
21. Was your lamb born male, female, intersex, or do you have no opinion on their sex at birth?
22. Does your lamb use pronouns other than they/them? If so, which ones!
23. Are they capable of having children and would they want to have children?
24. If they were to be a parent or are, what epithet would they have their child use? Mom? Mama? Dad? Baba? Nony? Abba?
25. Do they wear something other than the canon cloak?
26. Does your lamb wear jewelry or makeup?
27. Is your lamb flirtatious?
28. Did your lamb have any partners pre-sacrifice?
29. Did your lamb take any followers as a partner?
30. Who is your lambās second in command or closest follower?
31. Is your lamb ever honest about their feelings or past? With who?
32. Is your lamb merciful? Did they ever refuse to spare someone? If so, why?
33. Is your lamb trustworthy?
34. Is your lamb quick or slow to trust others?
35. If your lamb could pick a cult job other than leader what would it be?
36. Is your lamb a good cook?
37. Does your lamb let cult members cook or heal or do they restrict them from certain duties?
38. What is your lambās favorite food or dish?
39. Does your lamb eat meat/fish/eggs?
40. What is your lambās stance on cannibalism?
41. What about their stance on torture?
42. Would your lamb ever kill a cult member?
43. How does your lamb deal with dissenters?
44. What is your lambās favorite weapon? Their least favorite?
45. Would they ever let a follower embrace their dark desire to eat poop?
46. What is your lambās favorite season?
47. Is your lambās favorite color something other than red?
48. How does your lamb really feel about death?
49. Does your lamb use substances? Are substance banned from cult grounds?
50. Freebie! Tell us any headcanon you want!
I feel like the live action can learn a couple things from the stage show, especially color/pattern wise.
These are the two best dragon designs in the whole stage show and the colors are so pretty. The proportions also feel better, they have so much character! I also think the live action needs to be a bit crisper with the animation. The dragons feel weirdly bloomed out and hiccup doesn't really feel part of the scene lighting wise..
I'm not saying this stage show DOESN'T have problems with the dragon designs, just my thoughts of what can be improved.
Also give Hookfang gharial eyes!! They gave the terrible terror chameleon eyes, come on!!
Have you seen the live action HTTYD designs? what do you think?
Honestly I think people are being a bit harsh on them. The big pitfalls I usually see with realistic reimaginings of animated/illustrated creatures is that they either just try to copy the design 1:1, seemingly without a lot of understanding of anatomy/style, or go the opposite direction and treat everything as cartoon exaggeration, toning down or removing features that exist in the real world for the sake of realism. most of these are basically fine on both counts, it looks like the character designers are actually trying to engage with what the original designs are communicating while also not forcing themselves to be 100% fidelic to them. Most of these are not bad designs to me. I will say I 1) don't like the zippleback; maybe it looks better in movement but off the first few images it seems like they just kind of ditched all the interesting (and genuinely reptilian) elements of the original, like it's alligator/lizard-like stance and the way it's spines look like a zipper, in favor of a pretty generic/less visually interesting design:
and 2) I mentioned before I'm really not big on the redesign toothless has throughout the animated movies; the sequels gave him an increasingly flatter, more humanish face with big "eyebrows" and I think it looks way less cute/less like a real animal. the live action design is very obviously referencing this later design and I think it looks pretty rough here too, honestly a bit uncanny valley:
side note: i always thought my harshness on this design choice was a kind of mean hot take but the other day i went into the httyd tumblr tag and man they are so much meaner than me. look at this
Lose Your Head
Technically day 4 I've been busy and exhausted from my new meds so I haven't been able to draw no worries tho
Narinder is so Scar coded he was very fun to draw
Drawtober by @stychu-stych
Little guys round 3
I took a deep breath, swallowed my fears, aaand...
I'd figure finishing the lamb first would mean it gets out of the way faster, and I wouldn't have to work with that lamb-forsaken wool
"You were in my dreams last night" yeah our souls have been clawing through our chests to get to each other since we met but I'm glad you noticed
I forgot to post this on trans day of visibility.
see you next year, loves.
I drew the lamb as a bishop :) I have so much cotl brain rot rn