I've Been Wanting To Redesign Sandwings Since I Watched Dune Part Two, That Movie Got Me Obsessed With

I've been wanting to redesign Sandwings since I watched Dune part two, that movie got me obsessed with Sandwings and I decided to draw them for a school project.

anatomy- sandwings are quite short compared to other tribes. they have flat bodies covered in spikes similar to thorny devils. they have large barbed tails, the stinger is strong enough to break through bone. Sandwings wings have large feather like structures that can join and separate at will, once separated they will create a rattling sound, sandwings will often rattle their wings as a sign of anger or fear.

unlike other tribes sandwings have partial hairs on their bodies. these are most notable in hatchlings who are covered head to tail in dark micro hairs which are used to protect parasites from digging under their scales. they also have whiskers which can detect changes in weather.

speedpaint- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiChdD_k1YA

clothing-

Y'all heard of feathered skywings right now prepare for feathered icewings.

Ft. Queen Glacier bc i love her and i think she deserves more love (and maybe her own book)

REBLOGING SO RALPH CAN FOREVER LIVE

Y'all seemed to like my feathered icewings idea so give me some canon icewings characters in the question box for me to draw in this hc idea :3

Okay but what if the skywing dragonet actually survived?

Yeah i'm going to yap about my own AU about this.

But who said the Skywing dragonet is normal?

:)

(more yapping under the cut)

So bascially, in the first book, in the prologue specifically, most of everything is the same. Hvitur is trying to escape with the Skywing dragonet, gets caught by Burn, Burn makes her little speech yeah y'all know that part

But like. After she drops the egg, Hvitur actually manages to escape from the guards and her, and runs to grab the egg. He manages to do so, but he was SO desesperate to save that egg that he forgot he could fly, instead he used his wings to shield the egg and avoid it from getting damaged from the impact. In the end Hvitur still dies in this au sorry not sorry

Kestrel finds Hvitur's dead body and the egg and was quick to grab it before Burn's soldiers arrived, taking it to the caves.

The DoDs hatches in thr brightest night (Starflight still doesn't get powers privileges btw) and yay they (the guardians) fullfilled the prophecy!... Welp, since all of the DoDs are weird af (affectionate ofc <3), so is the Skywing dragonet.

The Guardians did not expect the little female dragonet to be 'odly white', aka albino. They thought her feathers and scales would get its colors after a few months or years but nothing seemed to change. And worse than that, she's partially blind.

Meet Swan, everyone!

(second image is a sketch of a more 'canon' take on her! Just a silly thing to check out my skills in drawing dragons :))

(more yapping coming soon don't worry, and y'all are all free to ask questions about the au!)