So fancyscales

Call me Sand :3 She/they/any

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Hi hi hi my good pal @sandshadow9 wrote a fic about crystal and blaze after queen glacier's death that tore my heart out and I think you should go read it if you haven't already

The fic is called "When Glaciers Melt" and you can find it right here!

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I've been getting back into wof lately bc of the new book, and I had to draw my fav girl again!!!!!!! glory is fr my goat she's one of my top 5 characters fs

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Some more wof sketches

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more Icewings

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Princess Orca making another one of her freaks (for morale and enrichment) i think i can make her a secret weirdo. she deserves it if i'm keeping her alive and Not Evil™. dont mind the worry lines on her forehead those are from perfectly normal and healthy amounts of stress in her everyday life (bonus panel)

sisterly bonding is also important.

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sneak peek for Icewing design set

will be out Jan 13

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i think SeaWings can have smoking as a part of their culture. as a treat.

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if you could change one sentence in the entire book series what word would you change and why?

oooo that's such a good question actually :0 there's a lot of dialogue that I want to change in the rewrite, but to do that, I have to change the circumstances in which they're said, ya feel me? for example: the whole Starflight and Sunny thing. you know what i'm talking about. we're gonna be tweakin' that. and what i mean by that is i'm gonna have this running bit that, instead of Starflight being head-over-tail for Sunny (eugh), she's gonna secretly be his favorite sibling. the affection and admiration is still there, but it's Different™ now. so when the "confession" scene comes up, it goes something like this:

you see my vision. you get it.

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Another Moon & Darkstalker sketch, still messing around with the colors & decided to add some deer elements to Moon, as well as some star-like freckles on both of them

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Tsunami artwork finished! I wanted to make her sharp, and took inspiration from sharks & sailfish ^^

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Here she is, tiny dragon with big words: Gylfie!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who is celebrating at this time :)

Below is more art, a size comparison, and my yapping! Next week I finish the Chaw of Chaws with 3 designs in one!!! I hope you'll enjoy >:)

And if there's any Ga'Hoole fans prowling the tags, what do you think of this version of Gylfie???

The elf owl was hard to translate into SandWing colours face-wise but the wings were an absolute blast. They have pretty unique patterning on there and turning it into a simplified WOF design was so fun.

And look! She's tiny!!

PineWings are also about the same size as an average human, and for her to properly come across as an elf owl Gylfie has to be super short. If I make Digger smaller than a regular SandWing like Sunny, then it just becomes a thing in this AU that SandWing hybrids are small XD

Gylfie (from Ga'Hoole)

Species: elf owl, Micranthene whitneyi

Miniscule strigiform, enormous words! It doesn't matter if you're ten times her size, Gylfie will stand up for herself without hesitation! Great grays are massive and yet Gylfie has no qualms squaring up to Twilight as soon as she meets him XD. She even uses words he doesn't recognize XD

Her attitude goes beyond just standing up for smaller owls, though. She flies by Soren's side in his quest to reach the Guardians of Ga'Hoole no matter how hard the journey is. Like him, she was snatched by St. Aggies, although her snatching wasn't an accident like Soren's was. She had jumped from her cactus hollow nest and, considering her personality, it makes sense she would want to try flying before she was ready. She actually owns up to it, however, unlike another character, which negatively influences Soren's opinion of them.

She and Soren also have a super deep and beautiful friendship. They've been together since the beginning and quite literally wouldn't have survived without each other. Gylfie, being a desert owl, knew about moon-blinking while Soren caught on to the way St Aggies tried to steal the meaning of their names. They did so much more together and it shows later in the series, where they do a sort of moving meditation to think over plans or times when they almost lose each other. I was sobbing when I thought they were in danger because Lasky wrote their friendship so beautifully.

Gylfie (the WOF version)

Tribes: SandWing/PineWing

Small dragon, big words! As a desert owl I started her design with a SandWing and completed it with the PineWing. It kind of works out because elf owls nest in cactuses and PineWings have quills like cactus spines XD

I didn't want to go too red for her main scale colour, but I think I handled the patterning relatively well. The face was tough since it relies more on colour than structure but I feel like I got her personality better. Dark scales around a SandWing's eyes just looks so cool too. When mixing sand/pine colours I tended to go more grey with the green and it ended up being well-suited for the more grey parts of the elf owl patterning.

This series could alternatively be called Happy Accidents: the Coincidence-ning for how well-suited the designs are. The Chaw of Chaws are just an awesome mix of varies owl species that happen to have really obvious WoF counterparts. I have thought of doing a few others in the future, like Ezylryb, but I can't think of a good combination for a whiskered screech owl. If any Ga'Hoole fans have ideas, let me know and I'll do a bunch of mini designs like they have in the books!

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Happy hatch day Winter Wings of Fire

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Queen Battlewinner GN panel redraw!!

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winter day once more 🥳🥳

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DoD + uninvited bum

i really wanted these to be 3 per page so i threw deathbringer in. at least its something he would do

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The Japanese The Brightest Night cover is revealed!