RioGrande_Art

Hello, I’m Rio! I’ve loved drawing all my life, specifically drawing dragons. I love a variety of tv shows and books and someday I hope to improve my art and expand to drawing things outside of dragons, despite my fondness for them. Here’s some other things about me: -Im 16 -I have a LOVELY LOVELY girlfriend -my favorite color is blue

[riograndeart0430]

Happy Pride Month to all!!

I’ve made a new pfp for this month and I’m quite happy with it! Some parts were definitely awkward to figure out and draw and still look a little awkward, but this was definitely good practice. I decided to add neck scales this time around and try a slighty different shading method. I’m really proud of the background as well, and I got to try some more brushes. I lowk adore this pfp, so I might remove the rainbows after this month and make that my regular pfp idk yet..

I’m also realizing that there’s not a lot of what you could consider pride month related, just a rainbow w/ two more colors and Scorpion’s limited edition eyes, but hopefully that’s ok.

Rant aside, no matter what you identify as, or who you love, or if you’re questioning, or if you don’t feel love at all, you are all loved and accepted!!

[riograndeart0430]

Doodled this guy in French and finished him when I got home. I haven’t rly decided if he’s a wof dragon or just a random one although if he is, I imagine him to be mainly an Icewing w/ a bit of Nightwing and Mudwing mixed in

[riograndeart0430]

I was lowk procrastinating this for awhile but I finally finished it and I’m really happy with it! I’m still working on lighting/shading and this is my first stab at backgrounds so don’t come after me if it looks a bit wonky-

[riograndeart0430]

Double post today

This is my new pfp!!

[riograndeart0430]

I finally got around to making a new header image for tumblr! I remember there was a previous attempt that I did not commit to.. but this time I really got hit with motivation. The time to do this took forever but I’m so happy with the result!! I was thinking about shading, but only after I colored the line art and I rly didn’t want to go back and recolor 😭🙏. A few of these ocs I chose at random, but most of them are really special to me and I felt they need to be included. Now that the header image is done, I’ll work on a new pfp.

[riograndeart0430]

New oc dropped. This is Thrasher (based off a bird).

(For those who care I’ve changed my user from Just_a_Weeb to RioGrandeArt)

[riograndeart0430]

Sometimes when I get bored I’ll ask friends for an oc of theirs to draw and I asked my bestie and I was assigned Sunstone!!

From what I was told, he’s a sky/sand hybrid who works as a guard for a sandwing hatchery. His horn was broken and was welded back together with gold, which is the reason for the gold vein. He does wear quartz armor but I was too lazy to draw it.. (sorry bestie). He has a strange obsession with tuna sandwiches which is probably the most important thing.

(Just to clarify, this was not commission)

(I love and adore your art style and characters, bestie, you are so talented and don’t u ever forget that!!!)

[riograndeart0430]

My contribution to society

Ok ok ik I just posted these two, but these were the first that popped into my head (I forgot abt Perun and Flicker 😔) so here is Harpy x Dingo! Happy Pride Month!!!

[riograndeart0430]

Lately I haven’t had the motivation for digital art, but I finally mustered up enough to draw these dorks. Their og drawings are shown underneath:

Just to clarify if there’s any confusion, Harpy is a full blood Skywing. I like to draw Skywings with fur as well as with spikes.

[riograndeart0430]

Got bored and doodled goofy ahh creatures

These are the lovely references, kinda low quality

[riograndeart0430]

[riograndeart0430]

Redesigned Flicker again. He went from a noodle to a regular dragon back to a noodle and I love him. One of my few ocs thats not WoF related. I haven’t gotten all his character aspects down, but ik that he designs bandanas

[riograndeart0430]

Old lady dragon

[riograndeart0430]

Redesign

Older version

[riograndeart0430]

Another redesign. This time it’s Red’ tail, my Hivewing/Rainwing!!! They’re pretty old and rly needed an update <_< but I rly love how they turned out, especially their wings!! A little abt them: They love chemistry and spend most of their time in solitude just doing some cool stuff :D. I imagine them to have maybe a pet snakeee

This is their first ref!! Quite a difference!!!

[riograndeart0430]

Finally got around to updating my main wof oc, Scorpion!! Not much has changed from the original(bottom) but I really like the new design.

[riograndeart0430]

After not wanting to draw dragons for a while, I really kicked it into high gear and produced this fella. I feel his design is right on the line of too complicated and not too complicated, but I still really love how he turned out, although the bottom side of his wing looks a little wonky, but I’ll probably fix it in the future :))