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Revisiting my favourite teenhood book series by listening to the audio books and starting a design blog.

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More content is innnn the works, I swear! Here's some burrowing owl sketches in the meantime. Aswell as a Digger prototype design 💕

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This is kinda a test because I’m still very new to how tumblr works! I have dreams of eventually writing my own comic, so for practice I adapted the very first page(s) of gahoole into comic form! I’m still learning about the comic creating process and finding out what works for me. For now, have some silly owl drawings :D

The dialogue+story is from the original book series by Kathryn Lasky, though slightly modified by me to fit text box constraints :)

[ratwithagunn]

(AUDIO WARNING)

‘YARAYARA’ ft my boy Kludd 🥹

I gotta make more animations with these guys again

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Gylfie Sculpt! Made in Nomad!

Thinking about posing and printing her..

..guardians of Ga'Hoole merch..??? No no... unless...

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Mrs P! She worm.

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"The pit guardians go out of their way to be nice to us," Soren had said. "But it's still kind of scary, isn't it?"

"Very!" Gylfie had replied. "It was after I called him Unk that he gave me the bits of snake." She had then sighed. "I remember so well, as if it was yesterday, my First Snake ceremony. Dad had saved the rattles for me and my sisters to play with. And you know what, Soren? It was as if Unk had read my mind because I was thinking about my ceremony and just then he says, I might even have some rattles for you to play with.' And then I thanked him. I over-thanked him. It was disgusting, Soren.'

And Soren knew just what the little Elf Owl meant.

Another fake screenshot using my designs, this time featuring Finny aka Auntie.

[thujaa]

the youngest child, the middle child, and the evil child

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Finny/Auntie! Every time that owl showed up my skin prickled with discomfort. I gave her human eyes for uncannyness! :D

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Spoorn!

[faintv0x]

These drawings are from late 2022 and there are definitely some changes i would make but idc they still go hard anyHOO guardians of gahoole was always my favorite xenofiction book series get out of the way warrior cats and wings of fire roll out the red carpet of autism for the OWLS

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Hortense/12-8

Spoiler behind line

Pre fall Mist! The wiki spoilered me on her surviving- but I'm not upset at all tbh. I loved her, the twist of her being un-moonblinked I didn't see coming but it fully made sense. And i love her. So much.

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"I'm going to get help, Soren. I'll go to Hilda's," he heard Mrs. Plithiver. rasp. Hilda was another nest-maid snake for an owl family in a tree near the banks of the river.

"I wouldn't if I were you, P." Kludd's voice was ominous. It made Soren's gizzard absolutely quiver.

"Don't call me P. That's so rude."

"That's the last thing you have to worry about P. -- me being rude."

Soren blinked.

"I'm going, Kludd. You can't stop me," Mrs. Plithiver said firmly.

"Can't I?"

Soren heard a rustling sound above. Good Glaux, what was happening?

Little fake screenshot using my designs. :)

Totally shook me, that scene -- and it's only chapter two.

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Gilfie and Soren inner wings reference! Aswell as Soren being older/having less fluff than in the first design I posted

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Gilfie was my favourite when I was a child. And so far she still is!

Designing owls in an animation friendly way certainly is a challenge btw

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Guardians of Ga'Hoole MAP call!!

This is my first and possibly only MAP I plan to organize, let's see how this works out! This MAP was originally planned by discord user Senjaminhouse a long while ago, but it got forgotten and the call was taken down. I want to revive it and see if we can live out this dream! This MAP will also be in honor of glauxspeed, the creator of The Great Tree discord server, which I inherited after they vanished suddenly. So I wanted to dedicate this to them, I miss them dearly and hope they're still alive and well out there somewhere. RULES

No AI

PMV style is okay

Must be colored (monochrome is ok)

Blood/gore is allowed, it's Ga'Hoole after all

Any skill level is okay!!!

Can be based on the movie or the books. You don't have to be full familiar with every aspect of the series to participate

Can include canon characters or OCs. No owlifications of characters from other properties though. Let's keep it in universe!

Can include the wolf characters or bear characters if desired

This fandom is small, you can have as many parts as you want! Comment on YouTube if you want a part!

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Here's the two brothers early book. Boys are still all fluffy!

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First Book, First Design - Hatchling Eglantine!