Name: Autopilot/Auto/AP
Pronouns: any/any
Flight Rising ID: Autopilot #23869
Flight Rising Website: http://autopilot-rising.wikidot.com/
I have ADHD-PI, Depression, and Anxiety.*
I am an old gas cloud that says swear words sometimes.
This is *Mostly* a Flight Rising blog. But sometimes I post things dragon related, art/creative related, train/interest related, or personal/life stuff.
Common tags: (I am not perfect with tags, but I try my best)
#Skins = All skin/accent work for Flight Rising
#Fr breedname = I try to tag skins with the dragon species they are for.
#Fr, #Flight Rising = Most Flight rising posts have these tags
#Art = My Artwork
#Writing = My Writing
#AP:RELIC = A Corny FR fanfic about a human waking from a cryo pod in Sorneith.
#Frfanart = FR related art
#Not FR = Not FR related
#Autopilot’s Ideas = FR Game suggestions/Ideas
#Autopilot’s Dragons, #Dragon Share = My dragons from FR
#Autopilot’s Skins = Dragons/Artwork from others that use my skins
#Autopilot’s Brain = ADHD/Depression/etc mentions.
I try to tag multigaze and shadow/plague primals when I remember in time.
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*I do not believe anyone has to share personal info about themselves to have their experiences be considered valid. And I encourage you to NOT share personal info online, especially in bios.
I only state it here because I actively talk about these things on this blog, and to let others know that in case they do not want to see that content. The tag I use for this is #Autopilot’s Brain, and sometimes #Not Fr.
You will tell FR artists they can simplify aspects of your character and then they will look you in the eye and draw your dragon png in crisp high res down to every miniscule detail. They'll draw aspects of your dragon you didn't even know were there. And they'll ask for the equivalent of 2 dollars for it. Do you people just have a thing about masochism? Question borne of love
EDIT: Since this post is gaining traction I'm going to add: TIP! YOUR! ARTISTS! Good big tips! If you see a person underpricing themselves PAY THEM THEIR DUE! People deserve to have their work compensated properly!
I understand as a fellow artist why artists lowball themselves, and that is why you the customer hold a duty to help offset this !! Pay your artists for their beautiful labour !!
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
Not very rigorous to dragon design. Focus was on recreating the "vibes" of the referenced work and adding a dragon in it. It was also fun making that style of signature. Ukiyo-e is woodcut print, so I limited myself by making each color a single layer.
Lady Arikawa's reference is "Bijin - Enshoku Sanpuku Tsui".
Lord Jinai's reference is "The Former Emperor from Sanuki Sends Allies to Rescue Tametomo".
Brush used is the default Tinderbox.
I hate drawing scales! It's too much work! I need to be in a certain headspace to subject myself to it. I cheated worked the system by drawing a section and then simply copy pasting it over the body, but that was after Arikawa's
For Lady Arikawa's piece:
Tenne (天衣) or Hagoromo (羽衣) is the term used for the floating "scarves" usually seen around Tennin, or divine messengers of Japanese Buddhism. You can actually see this among East Asian mythology in general, having been derived from Buddhist (and by association Hindi) Apsaras. I think her silk scarves were quite clever!
For Lord Jinai's piece:
There supposed to be a dragon transport there taking the place of the retainers in the original work along with Temeraire and Company instead of the Tengus. But I couldn't imagine what a dragon transport actually looked like on top of making sense of dragon sizes...
Lord Jinai is twice as big as Maximus just in the parts seen. Is that a from belly to back two Maximus on top of each other? Two Maximus from belly to head?? It's certainly not length since the whole dragon is not seen (or maybe it is and I'm confused?), nor can it be standing height since he was in the water (or maybe it was???)
Very quick mouse doodle
I don't actually know how big Maximus is either... I'm bad with sizes.
In general:
To further differentiate from other Asian breeds, for my design the Japanese breeds lean a lot on fish. Universally they all have fins of sorts. The Sui Rius are pretty obvious on that front. Lady Arikawa is a cat(fish.) I apologize for the flash bang but here's some old related doodles.
Lady Kiyomizu's study is stuck in limbo. Because I suck at the bridge (a big focal point of the piece!) and dread the wedding. I'll accept doing heavy referencing but didn't want to copy outright for my study so I can't cheat in that way, even for the people.
Besides that, I think it's really interesting that it's Ingersoll's work that was referenced for the Japanese dragons considering that it's largely discredited in authenticity. There are no references to these dragon kings that are not sourced from Ingersoll’s book or from before it was published. Attempts to find other references leads back to him (if the source is not credited just compare the wording whenever these dragons are mentioned- it's exactly the same as his text!)
The dragon kings do exist, though mostly in the form of the Buddhist or Shinto ones. They do not share the same names.
"Sui Riu" and "Ka Riu" at least has the decency to return dragons, though this is because elemental-aligned dragons pop up often in various media. Plesioth and Rathalos from Monster Hunter, for example, have the titles 水竜 [suiryuu] and 火竜 [karyuu] respectively.
(Speculation) In the context of the HMD, it might be possible that the dragon breed names are, in fact, really just "Water dragon" and "Fire dragon." For all we know (which is almost nothing), these names are categorical by ability rather than referring to a specific breed (again this is speculation).
This breed [Unknown] spits water. It is a kind of water dragon (Sui Riu).
This breed [Unknown]'s venomous bite burns. It is a kind of fire dragon (Ka Riu).
Instead of Ingersoll, Godai (Buddhist Five Elements) or Gogyo (Wuxing) might have been referenced instead. They're not dragons specifically, but both have Fire (Ka) and Water (Sui) . The use of "Riu" makes this less likely. That said from what I can glean, Japanese dragon romanized as "Riu" has been used by another publication of the time (Histoire des Dynasties Divines, 1884). For a contemporary closer to Ingersoll's publication (and in English), de Visser 1913 uses "Ryu". Griffis' 1880 uses "Riu", but as part of a name; mentions of dragons are translated as is instead of romanized (so they're dragons rather than "Riu" or "Ryu")
There's also the mention of Kirin that I don't know if it's a dragon, survey ship, or just the name of a scouting force.
But I think I'll think about it more when I feel like doing the Japanese dragons. I do like a reason to do unnamed or undescribed breeds.
A little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by.
I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoying taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.
