Jackal

Somewhat new to Tumblr and a WoF Fan of almost 8 years ⚠️NOT A FURRY⚠️ I would love drawing suggestions honestly (Not a bot chat I swear (in the distance:*beep boop* ‘SHUT UP’) sorry guys gotta go-)

[jackaldoodles]

I’m back from camping!! I saw a new bird every day!

BEFORE YOU GO (I know this is a long post)

There IS Photography if you just open the post and scroll down!! You know I wouldn’t just starve you guys!

Day 1: Steller’s Jay

Day 2: Brown Pelican & Marsh Wren (also saw: Double Crested Cormorant, previously logged. Unconfirmed potential Wilson’s Warbler sighting, unlogged.)

Day 3: Pileated Woodpecker

Day 4: Black Oystercatcher & Swainson’s Thrush (also saw: White Crowned Sparrow, previously logged.)

Day 5: Western Gull, Common Merganser (female), & Spotted Sandpiper (also saw: Black Oystercatcher, Brown Pelican, and European Starling, previously seen but not logged until that day. Heard: Barred Owl (not marked due to lack of line of sight))

Day 6: Vaux’s Swift (only partially confirmed. Birds flocked in a large group and looked similar to swallows, seen only in passing. Upon using Merlin on the position, the swift was the only brown swallow-like bird in the area. The birds were perched on a wire and flew off when driving by, so a closer look was not viable. The bird was logged anyway due to the unlikelihood that the birds were instead Bank or Rough Winged Swallows, both species I had not previously seen in real life.)

I also read the first and listened to the second books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series throughout the trip, mainly reading the first book’s physical copy throughout the time actually camping, and listening to the audiobook for the second installment of the series on the car ride home. Book 3 has just barely been started.

(Super good series I highly recommend it.)

Also saw a bunch of banana slugs

Currently working on a video compiling all the photos I got to the song Run Rings Right Wrongs by Cosmo Sheldrake which I have to do through flipaclip because I can’t get any media platform I use to work quite as well. ~500/4400 frames done so far, so that’s a plus at least. C:

Also idk if I’ve made it clear on here yet but ‘C:’ is a friendlier ‘(:’ if that makes sense. It’s more upturned and deeper smile, sillier and more wholesome. (: feels almost sarcastic and mean, but that’s just my perception.

[jackaldoodles]

I’m going camping for a week so everyone behave alright? 🤨

Have some bird pictures while I’m gone I’m gonna take more while I’m out, don’t leave any weird asks or questions while I’m gone and be good for the babysitter

Pictured is:

Franklin’s Gull, Song Sparrow, Red Winged Blackbird, Northern Harrier (male), American White Pelican, White Faced Ibis, Snowy Egret, and The Great Egret (eating a mouse/shrew/vole thing)

[jackaldoodles]

Idk if I ever told y’all about this but back in elementary school (I wanna say around 8-10 years old) during winter on those sunny mornings I’d go over to this bench right next to the 4th - 6th grade playground (there were 3 playgrounds separated by age, one blocked off for kindergarten, and 2 separated by grass) anyway on those mornings where it’s cold but there’s no wind and the sun was out, I’d always go over and lay face down on top of the benches.

The logic was to soak up the sun’s heat like a lizard lmao

[jackaldoodles]

WOF INFECTION AU TIMMEEE

first is a healthy seawing

First stage, right when symptoms start.

This is like when you’re in the thick of being sick

And on the mend! Or so they hope…

Aaaand right back in the trenches they go.

{NOTE: the bulge on the seawing’s gill is fragile! Poking and prodding it can cause irreparable damage.}

So sad for the poor oceanic seawings, isn’t it.

What have you done.

[jackaldoodles]

I headcannon that nightwing’s wing structure is similar in shape to vulture’s wings (specifically, new world vultures, like turkey vultures)

[jackaldoodles]

Feeling a little embarrassed because I thought these cuties were just being silly and I didn’t know why one of them was just standing all straight and not eating, half thought it was a statue to attract more black necked stilts to the wildlife reserve.

Oh how wrong I was

Let’s just say this is a photo of a mated pair of birds…

I walked away and when I turned back they were engaging in combat..

[chaoticastral]

2 Finished Sketch Pages for someone on Instagram and someone on discord!

[jackaldoodles]

you said you wanted more questions- but mines gonna be a bit of a hybrid:

Who's your favorite oc and can we have some art of them?? :>

This is a great question and I have a bit of a funny answer to it (also thank you for sending in an ask I really appreciate it C:)

So, my favorite oc changes every few years. As of right now, it’s your girl magpie,

But, back between 2022 and 2024 (reaching its peak in 2023) I had an interest in a different OC named Taiga, who was a Mud-Ice-Night tribrid.

She was also blind, and I thought it would be a cool concept if she had a sort of “mind reading” ability, where she could see through the eyes of others, rather than seeing their thoughts. I had the foresight to nerf this to be extremely blurry sight before really hardlaunching her and deciding on a design.

Here’s some of my earliest art of her, and a sheet on both magpie and taiga (whiteboard drawing I did just now so it’s most accurate)

Apologies if my handwriting is hard to read.

As for my most long standing OC, I have Sock Guy. He doesn’t really have a name, but he’s always just kinda been there since I was in 8th grade (~13yrs) when I got bored and doodled him up in math class (because of course.)

Funnily enough I created him centered around the wings of Fire universe, he had a mudwing hatchling companion before I made him his own thing.

He also has his own little way of showing emotions, specifically through antennae and his little eyes and posture. He doesn’t have a mouth and he’s a solid block despite being called “sock guy” (I just don’t have a better name for him.)

So that is to say, if you looked at where his butt would be, you’d find a smooth plane of white. Sort of like those analog videos on YouTube where it’s like the polite version of the scp universe, if you know of it. The one with the far plane critters and one of them is called glorbo or something and it likes being placed in a bathtub with its eye under the faucet. Idk, I can’t remember what it’s called but it’s adorable and you should check it out.

ANYWAY

There’s only one other OC I want to like, actually claim since I’ve made some pretty cringey ones I’d rather forget, but I don’t have a color palette worked out for her that doesn’t look garbage. Her name is Sea Skater and I’ve posted some art of her before, she’s the pirate in the comic panel with her girlfriend. I’m still trying to figure out what colors she should be and how exactly to even make a comic or convey her story.

I unfortunately don’t have additional art of her because.. not having a color palette (or at least one that looks nice) is a bit hard to make art for…

I hope this answer was satisfying, I have a lot of OC’s, like I’ve even made little art cards for several of them, including taiga!

I’m on mobile so I can only add 10 images to a post but that’s ok because we have a bunch of taiga art on here already. I wanna say I’ve made like at least 7 of these cards.

Let’s see I’ve got tsunami, then Minow, Sunstreak, Cobra, Nieve, Deepslate, Paradise, wayfinder, and taiga. And yes tsunami the cannon character not an OC.

Cobra has a fleshed out backstory (and also I just didn’t realize she shares a name with a cannon character but that’s fine because there’s like 35 icewings named caribou), Deepslate has a fleshed out backstory, and Nieve just sort of exists. Minow has a little lore, Sunstreak and wayfinder have nothing, aside from wayfinder being part of Sea Skater’s crew, and then paradise is just a really really big rainwing. Like just colossal. Maximum suntime capacity.

Hope this was worth your while!

[jackaldoodles]

You guys should like, totally ask me questions or smth idk

My ask box doesn’t have to be just drawing suggestions ✨

Magpie and sock guy whiteboard art for your trouble

I have a giant whiteboard now :D

[bellasauruss]

FINALLY finished these, here you go, properly labeled speculative skull anatomy for all the Wings of Fire tribes, based off of Joy Ang's artwork.

I based the skulls off of early synapsid, allosaurus, crocodillian, giraffe, and canine skulls.

Feel free to reference, trace, use for whatever just credit :pray: let me know what u think

[jackaldoodles]

This has got to be the coolest thing, and it’s gonna be so insanely helpful because y’all have no idea how many times I’ve tried to draw skulls and how many times it hasn’t worked </3

[jackaldoodles]

Stinky.

No I haven’t read the book yet, I do have it now though. I’m making my way back through the series so if I regret posting this art later that’ll suck :D

I’ve heard like teeny tiny snippets and something about mullberry being bad sooooo not umm.. not good

Also I’ve been putting off rereading Darkstalker legends but maybe I should do that now because I just finished reading another book but at the same time I want to read the third and last book in that series… decisions decisions.

[jackaldoodles]

HELP I ACCIDENTALLY MADE A BABY DRAGON I WAS DOING FOR A COMM INTO GRU

HELPPPPP

(Wanna see the baby dragon? The nose is the upper half of the jaw, the mouth is the jawline, and the chin is frills. It’s a very angry baby and at the same time a pleased gru 😭)

[jackaldoodles]

Does anyone know what the deal is with the whole ‘3 apples tall’ thing? Like is it just kind of like sauce cat, a unit of measurement to say ‘lol look how short’ or is it a reference to a piece of media I’m unaware of.

[jackaldoodles]

Magpie whiteboard doodle with some brand new expo markers I got for studying (oops) anyway teaching myself dot and cross product lowkey they’re super easy lol idk why I was so stressed out

Exam is tomorrow wish me luck chat

[jackaldoodles]

I finished book 8 but now I have to wait to reread Darkstalker because of my animation project so..

I’m reading a different book now in the meantime! It’s called Daughter of the Deep and every character has a Scottish accent in my head C:

It’s good so far, I like it. It takes slightly longer to read but that’s because of font size and spacing difference, not like incomprehension issues. Anyway have some magpie art!

I was figuring out family tree stuff since magpie’s colors are weird compared to most rainwing, being mostly grey and white and all.

[jackaldoodles]

Rereading WoF in its entirety since I don’t have book 16 yet and have been meaning to get a refresher and now I know why I couldn’t for the life of me remember the entirety of the events of arc 2. They don’t really like.. do much. Lol. Anyway I’ve gotten to book 8, read up to like page 43 in maybe an hour, maybe less, and decided to doodle some dragons because the inspo was too great. I’m very excited to get my hands on book 16 hopefully soon. For now have some janky drawings ✨

I tried out drawing dragons starting with the head and topscales only. At least that’s what I did for auklet. That mudwing started as just the topscales and then all the pieces came after. And then ofc I had to draw orca because like maybe she was blue and purple instead of green :p

Oh also pen drawing of queen scarlet and baby peril

I’m actually really proud of my experimental Orca design, she’s quite pretty here.

[jackaldoodles]

Does the song Lysergide daydream give anyone else an almost painful sense of nostalgia? Like even though this song is new to me, it feels so much like a time I desperately want to claw my way back to. A time when summers were pleasantly warm with a cool breeze, a time where school was climbing a tiny tree every recess to play pretend with my friends, a time where the trees are so tall they shade the whole neighborhood.

A place to get away from it all.

ANYWAY here is a comm art I did :D

I’m very proud of the hands on the first one. All three should be pngs so please please zoom in