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WOF but make it merfolk.

Also feel free to use I guess lol

my last animatic and designs are thriving so have some more progress 🔥🔥 (TYSM FOR ALL THE SUPPORT I NEVER THOUGHT MY SILLY IDEAS WOULD GAIN TRACTION <33)

Yes i slapped an obnoxious watermark on this one i forgot I can’t lower the opacity in CapCut cries BUT YEAH IM SO HYPED ABOUT THIS ANIMATIC :D

Ik yall dont gaf but heres some WOF fanart idk

Behold, the overcompensated SeaWings!

Once again, Joy Ang’s design is awesome and doesn’t need to be changed. This is just me having fun.

Details and explanation below.

Otherwise, next week are MudWings! See you then!

More overcomplicated dragons.

This is where I found the style I wanted for this series - and when I knew it would be a series to begin with. It set the tone, if you will. I used influences from marine iguanas, whales, fish, and anglerfish to create this design. I knew I wanted more whiskers and found a really cool deep sea angler that had many glowing tendrils. I also wanted their body shape to be more vertical and fish-like so I used a reference from a marine iguana to help extend the body.

This is when I also had ideas about how they might hunt and how their adaptations would help that. They could be ambush hunters, waiting in the dark with their mouths open and using the extra glowing whispers to guide prey inside, or be like whales and use their large mouths to scoop bucketfuls of fish. I was also inspired by this idea to want to do some action sketches, but those will be later after I explore the full body.

The last Overcomplicated Pantalan tribe; LeafWings!

You know how it goes. I'm just me and Joy and Tui are awesome and amazing.

Details and explanation below.

Otherwise, next week is something new! You'll get to meet one of my fantribes >:)

More overcomplicated dragons.

With the LeafWing, I struggled to decide what approach to take. Should I do something closer to canon or go crazy and do 100% my go-to headcanon?

Because my go-to headcanon is that LeafWings should have four wings. I found it odd that they and SilkWings both come from Pyrrhia, but SilkWings (technically BeetleWings) were the only tribe that evolved four wings? I hesitated to even mention this in my HiveWing post because idk how popular this opinion is, but even the fact that Clearsight's arrival somehow split the BeetheWings into two WILDLY different tribes is astounding, with how long dragons live.

But that's not the point of this post. We're here for LeafWings and buckle up, it's a doozy.

So first of all, the reason I justified a four-winged LeafWing is to help it camouflage as a plant better. I'll eventually provide a sheet of this, but it would have two main defence modes, the first being a single-leaf version where they lie flat on the ground or stand still with their wings drooping, creating the silhouette of a single leaf, or a version where they hang on the end of a branch and hold their wings and tail out.

It isn't just their wings that creates this look. I took the original single sail and split it in two, based on the ribs of a draco lizard, and had them run along the sides of its neck. When spread, they are a part of the single-leaf camouflage and bridge the gap between the head and shoulders. They would also have more similar frills on their front and back legs in case they need to camouflage standing up. They could use this for hunting or hiding...

Continuing with the bug-avian beak mix, I referenced african parrot species and leafcutter ants. The highly altered head is based on horned frogs and leaf geckos, and I obviously based the colouration and patterning on leaf insects (though the lighting kind of hides it on the back of the head, lol). Last but not least, I wanted to preserve and enhance the leaf cell design Joy used for the scattered body scales (at least, I'm 90% sure it's for that purpose, it seems most obvious). So, like any sane human, I found photos of plant cells under microscopes and used the rectangular-ish shapes for the main body scales.

I had so much fun making this series. It seems like a lot of people enjoyed it as much as I did. I learned a lot about external anatomy and mixing different creatures to achieve unified designs.

School is doing its best to murder me (I can't do big pieces) so from now on I'll have to stick to loose sketches I can do in-class or doodle within an hour. But once we learn more about bones and muscles I'll be able to take a crack at analyzing the full bodies of some of the tribes. I'll go in whatever order I see fit.

In the meantime, I've got some Fantribes for you, starting next week! See you then!

Monster

First is clay with graphic novel colours and second is clay is my headcannon design!

I really hope no one has done this before XD

Reblogs greatly appreciated!

what if seawings slept like whales

You know how people say giving Sunny more NightWing like features would give her away as a hybrid? SandWing's canonically have black markings and since we're already playing around with designs anyway yeah that can extend to markings beyond the diamond pattern. Split down the middle black and gold Sunny can just be seen as a weird case of melanism/natural SandWing patterns before the reveal be free have your cake and eat it too.

Battlewinner is such a cool character and I feel like she should've deserved way more time. Like just conceptually the idea of a lost queen, the ruler of the once highly regarded and prophetic NightWings, reduced to living in lava to survive. She had gone into battle herself, a duty practically unheard of for a regular queen, and came out with an IceWing having shot frostbreath straight down her throat. From then forth, she's been stirring and plotting within the streams of magma within the NightWing volcano, biding her time until they can rise from the darkness and claim what they believe is rightly theirs

She's a wicked cool character conceptually and I wish she had like more than two scenes lol. Like look at her in the official art!! Woawhh!!!!

Some art I did of Creetch and Bombora I made a while back that I forgot to post.

Recently, I started reading Wings of Fire, I'm on the second book now, I'm enjoying the series so far!

queen Diamond shares her excellent plan of action

some quick concept doodles of the hunt avatars in the wof au

Blister, Blaze and Burn - contest entry

Total editing time: 13 hours and 20 minutes.

and what if i told you all i would fuck a dragon. what then

Dragon x Human Megapost

2023 darkstalker floating in space doing nothing grinning evily and scary. png 1 and 2

clay doodles

whiteouttt!

the skywing delegation

left to right – alpine, ibex, prince ptarmigan, shrike, prince condor, princess cathartes

I like drawing Seawings the normal amount . . . (1/??)

Peril my beloved