mercedes

🫧 newly digital artist 🫧 www.instagram.com/merceds_hidalgo

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Here more sketches of birds 💕

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GALERIE | Atticus

The Atticus are wyverns with a beige-ish colour, mimeting that as the marble, being known for this as (cincelado).

They were not bred for war; their unique physique makes them excellent race "dragons", and thats how they were used by the latins and greeks for a long time.

Treated as sport cars, they were meant to be show offs too: a (turkish/ottoman-inspired) tradition is to cover their pale bodies with exquisite and colourful fabrics, jewels and hand-made ornaments.

Its personality is elegant, nonchalant and tranquil, giving them that noble aura.

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GALERIE | Chandrama Shishy

The Moon Pupil or Moon Disciple –its meaning in Hindi– is a lunar moth inspired dragon, known best for its subtle smile, and its calm, caring and empathetic nature.

For its extravagant personality, is considered an anomaly among its peers, thus, being praised as a god, a deity, by the people.

Talking about crowds, its common knownledge that they spend quite some time around temples, where they socialize with humans.

This always surprises scientists because in the wild, they prefer staying in small groups and even completely alone, so the contrast is rather shocking.

They are often described as "whales trapped in a dragons body", despite physically resembling an insect.

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METANOIA | Kefi, the "dragonfly" 🦋

Kefi is a demon. But not in the biblical, christian way, no. They are spirits from greek culture and mythology, and this one in particular, takes the form of a unique dragon... fly.

In short, "Daimons" are lesser deities and/or guiding spirits, which served as personifications of various concepts, and they could rather be good or evil.

Kefi, is a good one, and as his name suggests, he represents joy, passion and enthusiasm (of the people).

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EALDWINE

Starring: Finlay, "the white warrior" and Adelaide, "the kind/noble hand" 🙌🏻

❄️ Finlay is the main protagonist of another story I'm writing, "Ealdwine".

As you can see from the picture above, he is a cute fluffy white ermine with icy blue eyes.

He is rather calm and cautious, but this, sometimes is overshadowed by its need of adventure, motivated by his curious nature.

He's scottish by the way 👀 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🍁 Adelaide, the squirrel, its his loyal female friend, who is a social butterfly, much more extroverted and free-spirited!

Sadly, her pumping anxiety can make this dissapear sometimes.

Despite their contrasting personalities, surprisingly, they found balance which keeps them together like two peas in a pod.

PD: Ealdwine means "old friend", so that can give you a hint as to what the story is about!

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GALERIE | The scratchy drill

The Scratchy Drill is an Avetis, an enormous bird which once was an innofensive macaw.

It's nickname comes from the scatchy, craspy sound it makes when communicating, like parrots usually do.

Lives in the Liric Jungle, in the far southwest, where the green meets the ocean.

Some tribes praise them as spiritual guiders, and their colourful feathers often take part in temples, ornaments and traditional dresses.

They are very colourful; their feathers imitate the things around them, specially the tropical flora. Thus, resulting in an amazing, beautiful specimen.

As usual, males tend to show more pure colours, vivid as exotic flowers 🌺

Regarding size, dont expect it to be like a huge school bus sized dragon; but more like a small car.

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GALERIE | The justice warrior

Griffins (or gryphons) are hybrid creatures between eagles and lions, giving outstanding power and intelligence, from the earth to the sky.

Being the embodiment of Justice and Law in the "totemarian" and later "acordian" mythology, they represent harmony and balance, which keeps the world in order and at peace.

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👀 Hello, I'm Mercedes!

Thank you for visiting my page!

I'm a newly digital artist, using social media to post my humble process and works here, and I'll fill them with the information that cannot fit in other social media apps!

If you enjoy reading fantasy, random lore, continue scrolling! I enjoy writing so information will continously be updated.

For now, its just a hobby.

PD: I have three stories I'm currently working on, so you'll find a name at the beggining of each post, which names which story the character belongs to 🪄

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GALERIE | The "mediterranean" twins

Both Ko'pesh and Ko'ray are wyvern reptilis, which inspired a lot of miths thanks to their unique looks and behaviour...

And as you can see, they are not male and female, but two different, amazing species.

In short, the Ko'pesh are diurnal wyvers, while the Ko'ray are nocturnal wyvers.

Think of them as the Ko'pesh being like a hunting bird, with high speed wings, a fusion between an eagle, falcon and albatross; while the Ko'ray being chasing bird, which goes after little agile insects or mammals, like singing birds and owls, with elliptical rounded wings.

🌊 KO ' PESH

The Ko'pesh are slender cliff-dwelling wyverns, widely known to be among the fastest winged reptilis.

It habitates rigged coasts and travels around its multiple islands, which are very similar to the borders between Greece and Turkey, but in the open seas instead.

Their size is very similar to that as Caraxes. This helps them travel that long distances.

Giving that they spend most of their lives near the water, they primarely eat seafood like big fish or dolphins, being extremely "assertive" at hunting.

Its snout is perfectly shaped sharp like a bird of prey peak, a feature that comes in handy, specially when a big victim requires a harmful strike.

They go up high enough to strike them with so much force, prey dont know what happenned to them.

Their scales help them camuflate to hunt:

From above: prone to earthy colours, which helps them to camuflate in the coastlines, you will see more orange shades (even like terracota).

From below: a pale grey abunds, a colour that helps when they are looking out for prey in the sky.

Special traits:

Its scales shine slightly at sunlight, giving them an special orange-ish colour, similar to the golden hour.

Their multiple horns at the back of both head and jaw, are not just decorative ones; it goes all around aerodynamics. Facilitates air to flow, presenting less resistance, along with their slim triangle-shaped skull.

*In males tend to be bigger.

🐚 KO ' RAY

The Ko'ray live mostly in the vast northern woods alongside the coast, similar to Oregon, USA.

With their slender, lean but compact body and their eliptical rounded wings, execute quick and deadly turns, being talented at abrupt but elegant manuevers.

Ko'rays size's varies between sexes due to their sexual dimorphism, so males show a size similar to that as Drogon/Syrax, and females, like Moondancer.

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