Pure Art Blog for @dransnake! If you just want to see my art, this is the place for you. There are NO text posts or long-term comics being posted on here, only my main art! WIPs are posted every Wednesday!
I'm abandoning this account and all of the side blogs attached to it.
TL;DR: I'm making a new account to get a fresh start, and I will not link my new account on here. Thank you.
I will not be updating Embrace the Sibling anymore. While it was a lot of fun, I just don't have time to have a comic to that scale anymore. Plus it was starting to feel really generic and it felt like everyone was doing a post-Embrace the Void ending story. Mine didn't really stand out amongst the others if I have to be blunt. Honestly I like my Dreamer Hornet fic that I never finished more. Shoulda gone with that one as a comic tbh
On top of that my hyper fixation has changed from Hollow Knight to Splatoon 3. The funny cephalopods have captured my heart and I love them sm. They're what make me happy right now and it's got me drawing humans again. And I won't allow anyone to take that from me.
I will be making a brand new Tumblr account, but I won't be linking it here. I won't be impossible to find! It'll be pretty obvious once the new account goes up. Plus you'll be able to find it through my Youtube tbh. But I don't have it in me to post a link here. I just can't. That would negate the reason I'm abandoning this account in my eyes.
I'm choosing to not delete this account so all the old posts remain preserved. I don't have it in me to delete all my fan comics and I refuse to give them the Arcane Gourmet treatment (where I practically made it impossible to access). But this will be the final post on this blog.
Thank you everyone for my tumblr experience. From the good times and the bad times, I have grown as a person.
[Image description: A fully shaded digital artwork of a fluffy black and red wolf breathing fire. It has an intense creepy-happy look on its face; its pupils are small and shaking and its grin is too wide and full of sharp teeth. It's mostly black, but it has a lot of red stripey markings and a red head fluff, along with red eyes. It's wearing a few accessories, being earring studs on one ear, a nose ring, and a shackle collar with a couple of chains on it. Hanging off of the shackle's chains is a large metal symbol that is vaguely pointy snowflake shaped. /End description.]
hi this is Crackle (she/it) and she's a Bloodfang Darkone from The Island of Mezaai. It will probably maul you and steal your soul if given the chance
[Image description: A Hollow Knight vessel original character doing the god and anime kid meme pose. They are holding a long channeled nail. The vessel has 3 horns, two one top and one on the left side of their face. They have a long blue-green cloak that acts more like a cape. The artwork is made up of mostly dull blue-grey colors and tones. /End description.]
DON'T MESS WITH THEM, THEY HAVE THE POWER OF WYRMS AND ANIME ON THEIR SIDE
[Image description: An uncolored digital sketch of my dragon characters Nox and Lucky. They are in an oversized "Get Along Shirt", which is barely large enough to have both of them to fit though the neck hole. Nox is harshly side glaring at Lucky, his mouth distorting into a wild zigzag shape. Meanwhile Lucky is looking away and crying, looking real sheepish. Neither of them have arms through the arm holes, opting to sit on all fours instead. Due to Lucky being a feathery wyvern, his wings are sticking up awkwardly to the sides of him and one wing is in Nox's face. Nox's wings are just floating behind the two of them. Nox's sketch is pink, while the rest of the sketch is black. /End description.]
[Image description: A colored digital sketch of Hornet and Ghost as dragons. Hornet is holding Ghost (who is considerably smaller than her) and she is glaring at them. However, Ghost is holding out their arms for a hug. Both siblings have a neck frill that resemble their cloaks and their heads have horns like their canon counterparts. However, their jawline is lined with spearheads like the Pale King's crown. Hornet has four wings while Ghost only has two. /End description.]
Speed ran drawing @passsionfish's hollow knight dragon designs as a revenge in art fight!
[Image description: An Art Fight team card for dransnake on Team Wither. Under the box "I attack..." it says "Dragons, Furries, Bugs, (and maybe Humans)." Friendly Fire is marked with a question mark, while Revenge is marked with a check mark. The featured characters are: Nox the dragon, who is a pink and black meshy dragon with white facial features; Syntax the Protogen, who is dark blue with light blue markings; Juno the Deepnest Warrior, who is a Hollow Knight OC with Stalking Devout and Garpede features; Hearthstone the Skywing, who is a pink and dark pink firescales with bright yellow eyes; And Clink Clink, who is a Hollow Knight vessel with three horns. The character types marked off on "Characters I have:" are "Human," "Feral" (which have question marks around it), "Anthro," and "Monster." Both "Worm" and "Mech" are crossed out. Under "other" characters, it has "Dragons and Bugs." /End description.]
Howdy y'all! Happy first day of Art Fight! Here's my card for it, I'm gonna try and do my best this year. I'm going all out!
[Image descriptions: Two ref sheets of the same dragon, with some slight differences. The dragon is a pale yellow fluffy and feathery wyvern with yellow floating gems around his wings. He has a dog-like face shape, but a large nose more like a rabbit's and very long rabbit-like ears. There's a small beard tuft on his chin. He has fluffed out dark yellow mane running down his back all the way down to the end of his tail, ending in a large fluffy tip like a lion's tail. There's also a zigzag stray "hair" coming off of his face. He has two large and impressive wings that have two claw tips so he can stand on them, and his back legs are mammal-like with paws. He has minimal markings, being two stripes on his legs, tail, and ears; there are also markings under his eyes, nose, and chin.
On Image Two, all of his dark yellow spots are glowing a bright yellow; this includes his mane and beard. His eyes are also now pure white instead of light blue. /End description.]
Here he is! Lucky! One of the unluckiest dragons around whoops. I somehow managed to scrap together a reference sheet for him for art fight so now people can draw him fighting with Nox lol
[Image description: My take on the potential My Singing Monsters Cold Island Mythical. It's a slender blue lizard with trumpet buttons sticking out of its back, along with 6 simple metal bumps. It has three eyes, two fin-like frills, six legs, and its mouth is a metallic inside with no tongue. The legs have metal rings around its ankles and 3 rings around the end of its tail. For markings it has a dark underbelly, "socks", a tipped tail, muzzle, and inner frills. There's also various dark blue spots all over it. There is a tinier purple trumpet lizard that's identical to the large one; minus the rings. The big one has its tail wrapped around it. The big lizard is making smooth trumpet sounds with its mouth.
On the left of the drawing is two simple sketches. On the top, the big lizard has an arm wrapped around the smaller lizard, who is cheerfully making a horrifying blaring noise. The doodle is captioned "Don't talk to me or my child ever again." On the bottom is just the little lizard flopped on its stomach. It's captioned "derp baby". /End description.]
So uh- I couldn't help but play with what the community has given BBB for the new mythical coming out in My Singing Monsters. Mostly because people were complaining that everyone was voting for the most complicated choices. So I decided to make something for it hehe
[Image description: A digital sketch of me as my dragon persona. I have a shortish snout, a boxy head shape, triangle ears, two striped horns, a long tail, small floating wings, and a large round body frame. I'm happily running, looking over my left shoulder and my tail is spiraling behind me. I'm holding a drawing tablet pen in my right hand. /End description.]
Wip Wednesday Saturday! Hi yes i am alive hello. Summer has been kicking my butt, so I haven't gotten a whole lot done. But here's a lil wip that I'm making for my Art Fight page! And just as a fun art to draw anyways
I really need to draw my own characters more often, they deserve more art
[Image Description: A bat-like dragon furry with no wings, identified as Whisper at the bottom of the drawing. They have a long snout and long ears, and a very messy mane. Their left horn is chipped at the end, and their left ear is torn to match it. While it's hard to see, they have a few scars on their face. They are completely missing their right arm. They also have a long thin tail with a scruffy tuft of fluff on the end, similar to a lion tail.
Whisper is wearing an aviator cap with square goggles resting on the brim. They have a jacket with four pockets and two stripes on it, and the right sleeve has been trimmed down and tied. Under the jacket they are wearing a simple dress shirt and straight cut pants. They are barefoot, because dragons don't need shoes. /End description.]
Bit out of the ordinary for this blog, but I wanted to share this doodle of Them
[Image Descriptions: A sheet of copper plate that is being used for a mezzotint. It has been heavily rocked on, creating lots of little etchings that makes the copper almost look like a velvet fabric. There are several burnished marks on the plate creating large thick puddle shapes similar to oil spills. The negative space between the puddles creates a tree branch pattern.
Image One has the copper plate uncovered, showing sharp highlights on the puddles. Image Two has a thin plastic film on top of it, making it easier to see where the actual highlights have been burnished into the plate. /End descriptions.]
Currently doing a mezzotint workshop! Probably not the greatest of ideas, considering I have only done printmaking a grand total of once beforehand. But while this medium is notoriously tricky, I've been having fun learning it!
This is probably the only mezzotint I'll ever make in my life lol. I am absolutely not printmaker material
Needing a cute new profile pic for pride month? Want an artist with fast turnaround times? I'm your dragon!
[Image description: A nicely rendered digital drawing of a yellow cat holding a lesbian flag. Kit has a pink mask over kits face and a blue halo going around kits ears. The background is a color splash of pinks and oranges. /End description.]
$20 USD per icon! +$5 - $10 for complex characters
Any species welcome! Human, furry, etc.
Willing to do any pride flag!
Each icon will have unique line art and shading!
Paypal only please <3
Please message me here on Tumblr or DM me on discord at dransnake#5085 (must have a mutual server)
[Image description: A digital bust of a shocked protogen. They have a slim face visor with a simple rim on the outside of it. Their fur is a dark blue with a light blue under belly and various random spots. They have four ears that get cut off by the edge of the image. The background is a simple box-stripe pattern in varying shades of blue, eventually ending in a faint glow around the protogen. /End description.]
Oops I drew Syntax again. Well I'm not sorry, I love them hehehe >:3c
I plan on opening icon commissions like this one very very soon! Stay tuned!
[Image descriptions: A reference sheet of a rabbit-like protogen named Syntax. Their base color is a dark blue with lighter blue accents, mostly being a light blue underbelly and various random spots. Their robotic parts are white and grey. Their face screen resembles a vintage stuffed animal. The screens on their shoulders and thighs have 2 diamonds. While they have organic arms and legs, their joints are ball socket joints.
Below this image is are sketches of 5 facial expressions. Their default facial expression just has them looking to the left with their normal face. A surprised expression has their ears sticking straight up, their eyes round and they don't have a mouth at all. They are also blushing. They have a sleepy expression, which replaces their face with Zs. There's a drawing with them in a partial crash, where half of their face is a blue screen of death and they look perplexed. Finally, the last drawing has them yawning. /End descriptions.]
Syntax!! I redesigned them again for the 3rd time, and I'm really happy with how they came out ^^. I mostly just tweaked their previous design a little bit to be more interesting and not just protogen design #57.
A more detailed description of their reference sheet is below the cut!
A reference sheet of a rabbit-like protogen named Syntax; they look like a cyborg-like furry. Their base color is a dark blue with lighter blue accents, mostly being a light blue underbelly and various random spots. They have white robotic parts, being a chest plate, shoulder pads, a pelvis plate, metal thighs, and a black visor with a white band. On the edge of their visor is a are two circles with a double triangle plate coming off of it. Their face screen has two button eyes, a simple nose, and a mouth shaped like a number three; this resembles a vintage stuffed animal. There are similar screens on their shoulder pads and thighs that have two diamond shapes displayed on them. While their arms and lower legs have their organic color scheme, they have joints similar to a ball jointed doll. Each limb segment ends in a light blue stripe, with their hands being exceptions. Their claw-like fingers are completely light blue instead and their palms are dark blue. They have four long rabbit ears.
The layout of the reference sheet is the following. On the far left side is a full body with thick weighted line art slightly facing towards the left. It's in its own box that's slightly lighter than the background. Next to the box is a smaller full body, this time showing off their back with their tail taken off. A drawing of their disconnected tail is next to them, which is a little dark blue poof ball with a light blue underbelly. There are semi-detailed robotics where the tail is supposed to attach to the body. Above the smaller full body is a drawing of their mouth open, which reveals nothing inside of their visor. Next to that is a cut showing their blood color, which is red. On the right side of the image is two different facial expressions. On the top is their default expression having a vintage plush look. Below that is their visor being completely washed out with a blue screen of death.
On the very top of the image is their name, Syntax. Next to that it says "Protogen | They/them | 5'5 tall." Below that is their color palettes, separated by organic colors and artificial colors. In the bottom right corner is a list of quick information about them. This reads:
[Image description: A blue digital sketch bust of a protogen, which is a cyborg furry species. They have a screen visor face that's displaying button eyes with a little animal face similar to a vintage stuffed animal. On the base of their visor is a circle with a diamond shape and 2 rounded spikes coming off of it. They have two sets of long rabbit-like ears. The sketch has a defined underbelly, with some simple spots on their main coat. /End description.]
Today's WIP Wednesday!
I was cleaning up my Art Fight profile because I remembered that's in about a month, and I remembered my funky lil protogen OC. I need to clean up their ref and give them a better one, but I started doodling facial expressions instead lsdfjasldfj
[Image description: A simple blue digital sketch of a Hollow Knight alternate universe. It has the Hollow Knight's shade floating in from the left side of the screen carrying a sleeping Hornet. It's looking at Quirrel, who is surprised to see the sight of them. They are at the blue lake and Quirrel is standing at the shallows while Hollow is floating above the water. /End description.]
Got reminded of Dreamer Hornet AU, and I decided to draw a scene I originally had in mind for it! For those who have no idea what this AU is about, it's a post-Sealed Siblings ending story that I never got around to actually writing. Maybe I'll sit down and explain what it is in full one day ^^
[Image description: A simple digital drawing of the sibling trio from Hollow Knight. Hollow is sitting in the middle while Ghost is on their right and Hornet is on their left. They are considerably larger than their siblings, even with sitting down. All three siblings are in neutral poses. /End description.]
WIP Wednesday! Against my best judgement I'm participating in @ukagakadreamteam's Ghost Jam event. Thankfully I only have to make the shells for this (and probably some shell coding), so I think things are going pretty well?
This likely won't be available for public release immediately after the event, but it will eventually!
