hello everyone! if you've been following me for a bit, you may recognize this guy here. he was a legend of spyro themed adopt i made a few months back, but i ended up getting super attached to the design. my bestie saw how much i loved him and very generously paid for him and then gave me ownership!
after that i thought about what to do with him, and eventually decided to add him to my TLoS AU, the legend of fire and ice! (TLoFaI for short) he is the cousin of voltz, who you also might recognize if you've been here for a few years :D
as a small note before i get into his bio, i had to make a slight design change to him so that he fit into the lore of TLoFaI. shadow dragons or dragons that have shadow heritage often have black sclera, with their pupils being funky colors and the irises not being present. this is why voltz has black sclera even though she's an electric dragon, because one of her moms (penumbre's aunt) is a shadow dragon! this also means shadow dragons can be born without this trait if they have a non-shadow parent :)
Backstory: Penumbre is extremely shy, and tries his best to avoid social interaction. Although this might make it seem as though he doesn’t want to talk to others, deep down he really wants to make friends. He’s just scared to death of others! What if he annoys them, or what if they’re unkind towards him? Keeping to himself will keep him from getting hurt. That’s what he tells himself, anyway.
The rare few that he trusts adore him - he’s funny and nice and always looks out for others, even creatures he doesn’t know. But it’s easy for them to feel frustrated by his avoidant tendencies; it would be so easy for him to make friends, and no one understands why he struggles so much with it.
Trivia:
He is decent with his element, but he is best specifically with the abilities to jump into shadows and manipulate shadows.
He uses these two abilities to help creatures from the shadows, as he is too afraid to approach them directly.
Voltz is his cousin, and although the war makes it difficult for the families to see each other often, the two still have a pretty close bond.
wanted to give redesign audrey a bit (pretty much entirely her armor, lol) so i decided to give her a whole new ref while i was at it!
i asked my friends for advice on things to change about the armor, and everyone gave suggestions that helped push this design in a stronger direction. @maplemoss suggested giving the armor a bird theme, leaning into her whole thing of watching everyone like a HAWK. then @shiftingshade and @capricoresblog sketched a few concepts, and i incorporated elements of those into the final armor.
i decided to give her warm-colored armor to contrast her cool-colored fur... a warm outside but a cold inside, which is befitting of her role.
i also wrote up a new bio for her, which you can view on her artfight and toyhouse pages, OR below the cut! (which also has a remade icon for said pages):
Name: Audrey (formal title, Ser Audrey)
Species: Snow Leopard
Pronouns: she/her
Personality traits: Honest, reliable, observant, rash, impulsive
Orientation: Not even she knows
Age: 35
Short bio: A member of the Knights of Pyratia with a strong sense of justice and a fiery temper.
Bio: Audrey has always seen injustice in the world, and has always had an ambition to correct it. Her way of accomplishing this was by joining the Knights of Pyratia, an organization dedicated to protecting people and enforcing the rules on Pyratia. While training to join their ranks, she discovered that many of its members were not actually all that strong, nor were they interested in keeping anyone safe. This strengthened her resolve even further, and she began to believe that her way was the only correct one. Now a banneret of her own cavalry, she stalks around her station in the city on the lookout for criminals.
i'm gonna be taking a break from posting art this week, i just moved and my computer isn't set up so i can't upload anything at the moment! hope you all have a good rest of your week 💖
wanted to do a slight redesign of my spyro fan character, ratius! i wanted to simplify his design so that i could redraw it a little easier. so i decided to make a ref for him since i hadn't before!
ratius' toyhouse profile | ratius' artfight page
and since i was updating everything anyways i also drew an icon for his profiles:
finally drew pics of my problem sleuth fan characters, sweet tooth wraith and candy corn clown. they're best friends who love playing pranks on others and eating sweets! both of them use she/her pronouns :)
hi, it's been a minute! i made another design for a character i made up for my legend of spyro AU, TLoFaI! this guy was a character i came up with on impulse, and i concepted and wrote a bio for him pretty much all in one sitting :) i'm real excited about him!
however, his bio is pretty spoilery, so i had to truncate it pretty significantly for posting purposes. still, i hope it can give you a basic idea of who he is.
i'm pretty pleased with how this all came out, and it gives me an idea of how i should approach making references for the guardians once i'm ready to make those. if you're following me on tumblr or especially bluesky, you may have seen that i've been replaying the trilogy. but there's a twist: i've been texture hacking it to match with TLoFaI! and @shiftingshade has been helping me solidify designs for everyone, including a redesign of spyro :3 it's been a LOT of fun.
...but i'm getting a little off-track now. here's the bio for caelum!
Caelum is a mysterious Earth dragon with a very positive reputation. He travels frequently, and is known across the lands for his charming and generous personality. Some creatures even decide to leave their homes and travel with him, even if for a short time. However, despite how fondly creatures will speak of him, no one knows where he came from or who he is beyond his kind gestures.
Trivia:
His parents were masters of the Earth element, and taught him everything they knew.
Specializing in the Wind secondary of his Earth element enables him to manipulate gusts of wind in order to fly very fast. This allows him to travel great distances in a very short amount of time.
He loves gold, and can frequently be seen wearing various gold jewelry.
