macaque #598694

new fr user here to chronicle my thoughts and adventures and look at pics of cool dragons. likes/follows come from my main @bfdi

[blaiddraws]

had an idea. what if i turned flight rising dragons into pokemon.... not letting myself go w the obvious answer and have them all be dragon types so here we have fire/fairy coatl and bug/psychic everlux. there Will be more in the future

[sparrowlucero]

what's the flight rising art direction post?? I used to play that game

for everyone who doesn’t know flight rising is a virtual pet site ala neopets, but with dragons. On its forums I made a thread pointing out that the dragon designs were becoming relatively more “same face” over time, with similar face shapes and often with a similar “noodly” anatomymy point being that they were both losing some of the charm of a lot of the animals they were based on (with bug, bird, and eel inspired dragons all looking somewhat similar and mammalian), and even more pertinently, not allowing for a wide variety of body types for user characters in the game - with most of the gameplay being a dressup/character creator, you see why having very few buff, chubby, stocky, etc character designs is a pretty big downside.These are the dragons released in the first half of the website’s history, with the shapes outlined:

(these pairs are the same species but have somewhat different body shapes, so they were both outlined)And these are the dragons released recently. The stockier guy on the bottom left is the very oldest of these:

I also pointed out several of these designs have very similar faces, relative to the facial variety you could have with dragon designs (other two recent guys are outlined above):

In comparison, here’s some of the head shapes from earlier dragon designs:

and yeah I think you can see what I mean about the shape language getting a bit more homogeneous. I expressed that I felt like the art team may have observed the popularity of the thinner, doglike dragons in comparison to the chubby reptilian ones and decided to err towards the former.

I also drew some dragons to better get across my point about shape language when people suggested I was failing to account for the fact that the “sameface” dragons weren’t entirely identical:

(obviously I’m exaggerating shapes for clarity of point; clarifying here as some people believed I was knocking the art style and wanted it to be more cartoonish…)I also pointed out that you could easily draw very identifiable fanart of two breeds which people were saying looked different:

(someone told me these didn’t read as fanart of either dragon. you be the judge, I guess) I did get a lot of very nice comments, both in agreement and disagreement, but also some comments that I was being disingenuous, arrogant, or (much more dishearteningly) suggesting that fat designs are simply too unappealing and that the artists can’t waste their time on it because the website is a business.

yesterday they released a sneak peak at their newest dragons, which people believe are cetacean inspired. I tuned in as the initial preview (which only featured an arm) made it look pretty stocky:

but, shocker:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[dfghjhkggfk]

lightning nest | nature nest | earth nest

I finally finished these 3 nests. The next remaining ones (wind, ice and water) I hope to make soon.

shadow nest | light nest | arcane/plague/fire nest

[stories-in-the-wind]

Pilgrimage through Greatwyrm's Breach

[rhvpsodos-fr]

Having trouble naming a dragon so. Poll time.

How do you name your Abberations?

One name (“Glass”)

Two names (“GlassGloss”)

Two names (“GlassAndGloss”)

Other

Voting ended onMar 6, 2024

Elaborate in the tags if you like! I know this isn’t a very comprehensive list, but that’s because I don’t have many ideas 😅

[tomswifty-fr]

floppy fae

[marzzrocks]

pov: you don't have your passport. also you’re a dragon for some reason

his design is based on an on going project of making hlvrai dragons real

final(-ish) under the cut | warning for bright colors / eyestrain vvv

[heckling-hydrena]

I have no idea why but the g1 collection instinct is so real and once you activate it you can never go back. for years I never understood why people spent so much money on g1s but then I hatched + gened my first one and I was like oooh ok. I get it I see now. nowadays buying a g2+ dragon Without completely changing their genes feels like buying a lego set that someone's already built for you. are you picking up what I'm putting down or am I having a charlie kelly pepe silvia moment right now I can't tell

[amesha]

look at Her

[eggrot]

i think faes should have their own iteration of emperors first and foremost because i'm biased but i do genuinely think it could work lorewise since dubious and unstable magic is arcane's whole thing... they could be called erlkings or erlkönigs. imagine :)

[eggrot]

hi everyone look at this g1 i bought recently thanks

[eggrot]

almost ten years of flight rising and faes still have objectively the best design out of any other breed cmon fr step up your character design game

[corvidus-fr]

new breed is really good but i am MOST obsessed with the babies. look at these Things

[deer-rising]

Day 4 - Hairless Dragon

Fleischer, a purveyor of fine meats not a single hair here no siree! A good butcher keeps their workspace clean

[eggrot]

obsessively checking the google doc for the skincent i recently ordered just to make sure that i didn’t somehow delete the entire spreadsheet and replace it with an alphabetized list of slurs

[eggrot]

how are faes not everyone’s favorite fr breed. genuinely asking

[fr-mayaohmu]

DragonADay2023 - Day 2 - Avatar Dragon: Sclerenchyma!! She’s been my avatar since forever and this is year 3 in a row of drawing her, so I wanted to do something more experimental!! Anyway, BUG FAE BUG FAE BUG FAE BUG-