Story Time!

Story time!

I collectively refer to these three drawings as "The Joke That Went Way Too Far". This is because they were never meant to be a serious fleshed out art piece, but then the drawing that is now my icon happened.

This whole story began with me being bored and deciding to do a quick rough drawing of majora as a Keaton. I was doing it mostly as a joke. I had no clue that this quick sh#tpost of a doodle would lead to me spending uncountable hours on a single art piece.

So anyways yeah these are 3 drawings of majora as a Keaton. The first one I drew uses the color palette from the original official art of majora, it's the one where the tails are all the same. The second one I drew uses the color palette from botw, so it has more hydrated colors. I spent more time on the detailing on that one. The last one I drew is the headshot. I originally started drawing it as a way to better visualize how the markings would look on a canine head. Somehow I found myself spending a truly ridiculous amount of time putting the most effort into shading I have ever done on it.

Looking back, I'm really glad that I ended up making these drawings. The two side profile drawings are super rough, but they were never meant to be fully finished art.

Im not joking around. I seriously want to talk about this.

If you have no sweet clue what in arceus' name I'm talking about;

This stuff clearly imbues the food with eternatus' power, and I don't remember anything that can do that except a literal hunk of eternatus' flesh. And you can cook with this in game. It also bears an unsettling resemblance to the red crystalline substance (membrane?) connecting eternatus' horns.

While we are on the topic, what about dynamax candies? They apear to be made of the same substance.

So are we not going to talk about the fact that you can eat what is probably eternatus' flesh?

@tealleadership

Surprise! Fan art of trainer daddy (pre becoming champion) with one of my 3 trainersonas, Larkin!

They're just,,, really soft boys,,

Decided that since I've made art of my other two trainersonas, I might as well make some art of my third, Ze'ev. She has a german Zamazenta that was a gift from my gf. Out of my three trainersonas she has the least play time because I'm waiting for the DLC to come out so she can have a rockruff.

She hasn't even gone to the opening ceremony yet and I can tell she's an absolute cryptid.

@tealleadership

Surprise! Fan art of trainer daddy (pre becoming champion) with one of my 3 trainersonas, Larkin!

They're just,,, really soft boys,,

So I've been studying eternatus' anatomy and realized a few things:

1) the clear walls between the ribs are definitely an elastic membrane, would probably feel a bit like latex to the touch. (Realized this bc the membrane isn't flat like it would be if it was crystalline, it is concave like fabric pulled over a frame). This brings up a question about the membrane connecting its horns. I always thought they were the same.... tissue? substance? But the horn membrane looks more rigid.

2) there are freaking divots in its spine???? How the heck haven't I noticed that before?

3) the way its back spikes line up when it's moving makes me think it used to have a membrane connecting them, a little similar to spinosaurus.

4) the way it moves reminds me of aquatic mammals... now I have the image of eternatus with fins, flippers, and a whale tail...

5) eternatus is far more heavily based off of eastern long dragons than western dragons. This brings the long whip like structures on its shoulders further into question... just what are they?

6) eternatus' back legs actually make slightly more sense knowing that it is an eastern dragon, some traditional art of long dragons have similar hind legs.

7) those strange whip like structures on eternatus' shoulders... I still don't know what they are. When I first saw eternatus I thought that they were wings. But after watching eternatus move in camp I'm not so sure. They don't move like wings would, they act more like tendrils.

Also the way it moves its head makes it look like it's super curious and that's frigging adorable.