Misplaced Dragons... What are they doing here?

Misplaced (#47637)

[misplacedflight]

Plucked

[misplacedflight]

Hey, I got a message from quinnrising about accidentally reporting my account. It is a scam, their account has been taken over by a scammer. The email they show sends you to resolution with a tumblr employee through discord.

Stay safe.

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

Rahhhh finished this thing that’s been in wip for a few months

One of 2 of my flightrising dragons who are automatons (they are identical except their magic/flight)

[misplacedflight]

Such an awful little creature.

[misplacedflight]

My warmup to get the creative juices flowing today was to see what they'd look like chunkier. I also changed the head a bit. I can see them sunning like seals on a beach.

[bakugames-fr]

Drew a revised design for fanthoms because the current art direction on fr with modern breeds

People have been nicer than i am, but I'll be blunt: undel (and whichever extra artists are working on these breeds, if theres any) have an extremely limited visual library when it comes to animals, how their features works, or just shapes in general. The fact our cetacean dragon has the same body type as a pearlcatcher or mirror is insane!! it shows lack of creativity and care to developing the concept.

Right now, dragons are picked to fit in one of the 3 body types (generic dog body with lizard head western dragon, wyvern and tube), and then random decals are slapped on this mold to make them look unique. Theres no shape variation, no care at going "which animals fit this concept, how can we apply the features of these animals?". no research, just superficial flavorless dragon design. you dont need to be a biologist to spend a few minutes at a wikipedia looking at animals and mythology and studying what makes these animals themselves, how their species works, what features they have!!!

And even if you don't want to study animals, why is there no shape study? why are 90% of dragons slightly top heavy tubes with the pick of slender face and smushed face. They lack shape design, and refuse to elaborate on the animal influences to create stronger features than just random horns/frills/fur. its making me insane

anyway here's a merrigan

[misplacedflight]

You could say this gene drives me batty. (Left = Site, Right = Edit)

[arcanchrys-fr]

imagine undertides getting a bubble eye gene. or a wen gene.

[crying-dragons]

I call them the bubble brothers.

[156l]

Auraboa! Before -> After + Speedpaint under the Cut (vid might still only be in standard definition when this is posted. sorry about that!)

[wrathful-reptile]

I'm seeing the auraboa glottis snake post going around and saw something in the notes about teeth and that got me REALLY thinking, especially when paired with the official art.

Yes they're based on snakes, that's obvious, BUT they have fangs that aren't hinged and appear to be conical in shape suggesting the possibility of a few things

They could have a SECOND SET of fangs to inject venom as their rigid fangs dig in and hold onto the prey

They are very toothy-mouthed and their venom is similar to a komodo dragon's saliva. In which case they'd probably tear chunks off of their prey

Their fangs could actually function like a spider's fangs (perfect when paired with scuttle gene)

Either way they DO have some solid, and decently large teeth in their mouth

BUT REMEMBER! In the end, this is a fictional species so Really???? Draw them HOWEVER YOU WANT.

[156l]

can the Ancients get better lore aside from the theme of "oh we (the modern breeds) forgot they were there" which is kinda stale. 4 of them is practically this

the elements should shake them up in a massive way and be like, angry beasts revived by the sheer energy. like no offense to sandsurge lore that has such great design, and then make them undertunnel workers...wtf? i'm like of the belief that ancient stuff should wake up from the earth angry and pissed because they got revived after so long AND forgotten by the gods

Imagine a physical map expansion where the elements get more area that is unearthed and there's a war between angry ancients and moderns. now that's a bounty alright

[brella-boi]

There are Aethers in my flightrising shop now :] Probably one of my favourite bases so far

[kiriatifr]

Question for fellow old players: what was your go-to gene combo for basically every dragon back when we had barely any genes to speak of? Iri/shim/anything is disqualified because we were all in those trenches. Mine was cherub/peregrine/belly

[hungrytundras]

Cherub/Basic/Contour Gang. Stripes secondary if you wanna get fancy and if you *really* wanna go all out: Glimmer.

Or we can go real OG and talk about the Era of Clown Primary.

[rubyzoisite-fr]

cryface, cherub, and clown is all a flashing memory in my mind for most of my dragons back in the day (not including irishim which made up a lot of my lair)

[misplacedflight]

I had a brief thing for speckle/freckle/crackle. Big fan of clown/shimmer and using okapi as well.

[misplacedflight]

Candle apparel just put lit candles on yourself just do it great idea.

[misplacedflight]

I once again get what I want.

[misplacedflight]

The urge to draw a tun tun strikes at random.

[misplacedflight]

Alright flight jumpers who finally thought they found their home flight, how are we feeling rn?

[misplacedflight]

Commissions! Wow!