Heavenly Flying Dragon

The personal blog of some weird Canadian. Loves husbandos, dragons and puns. Chronic doodler. (Skymerald on FR)

[shantiyen]

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I PROBABLY NEED ONE OF THESE RIGHT

Hi there, I’m Dani / Shantiyen (she/her/they/them)! I love all things related to dragons, Monster Hunter, space aesthetics and hot anime men. Also puns. Lots and lots of puns. And gacha games that are not bad civ.

I also like drawing! Mostly dragons. But sometimes my OCs, like Jin as shown above.

If you want to get to know me past tumblr (uncensored!!! ooooo!!! I swear even more heehoo) or.... mebbe comm me... here’s some deets below vvv

bsky: latiasfinder ko-fi: latiasfinder Art TOS: https://latiasfinder.carrd.co/ Flight Rising: Skymerald

[shantiyen]

Nothing quite like realizing days later you forgot to buy the nature lair scene and extra of the fest apparel... don't suppose any fine folks in the tag would be willing to sell extras? <3

Edit: I have a few scenes now, ty!

[shantiyen]

Fine, you win this round, you Shrek lookin ahh lizard

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Vigils?

An Ancient breed from Flight Rising. Absolutely gremlin coded. Their anatomy - mostly on the body/legs - has proven to be incredibly difficult for me to work with on an adopt base.

I've had one pose I liked, but had to bin it because the legs just didn't look right to me :/

[shantiyen]

I like Vigils and all but oh my GOD I cannot begin to state how much I really dislike trying to draw them. I've struggled with bases before, this is just a whole new level of frustration....

[shantiyen]

Absolutely going to bite my tablet in half. Does anyone have tips on drawing dragon feet from varying perspectives? Every time I get to the feet on one of my adopt bases it just falls apart because I just can't get the digits looking right.

Please don't suggest looking up animal ref pics - I struggle even more with those :( My brain just doesn't infer the step by step process to it that easily.

[mudpuddle-fr]

Ok these are the pages I mentioned in the tags yesterday, from one of Undel/NeonDragon’s how to draw dragons books. I’m not sure if it is any help at all but I figured I’d share it anyways just in case it could be of use

[shantiyen]

Alas, these do not quite work for the pose I am doing right now, but they are valuable references for future arts. I really appreciate it, thank you kindly!

[shantiyen]

Absolutely going to bite my tablet in half. Does anyone have tips on drawing dragon feet from varying perspectives? Every time I get to the feet on one of my adopt bases it just falls apart because I just can't get the digits looking right.

Please don't suggest looking up animal ref pics - I struggle even more with those :( My brain just doesn't infer the step by step process to it that easily.

[shantiyen]

I've been in Lightning since I joined FR years ago and have been very cozy in it... but I keep getting a yearning to swap to Wind. It's constant enough that I'm really thinking about changing, but I have scattered and very loose lore I don't wanna edit. And it almost feels like a betrayal because I've been in Lightning for so long, which is silly because it's just a flight and I am but a drop in the bucket of users in it.

Pluuuuus the cost to return (if I miss Lightning too much) puts me off bc I have a bajillion projects wanting those gems :') I'm mostly musing since I'd be interested in joining Wind related Discord servers and want to know how chill they are (if the chat moves super fast it tends to make me anxious but I also don't want a super dead chat where no one talks LOL)

[shantiyen]

I so badly want to pick the brains of all the wonderful UMA/fest skin artists... please... tell a dummy all your art tips...

(No, really, I'd love to just chat with one to ask a million questions because I still fancy trying my hand at fest skins but there's a lot of techniques I just can't quite grasp haha)

[urvogel-arts]

Just finished another commission and wanted to show it off!

[shantiyen]

*points* It my girl Seidra!

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A totally normal progenitor family portrait :)

[shantiyen]

"My first Vigil egg hatched without a green colour in it, maybe the curse has abated a little... lemme spare a Noc egg"

The egg in question:

I live in hell. The green curse will never leave. Help.

[shantiyen]

Which scry?

Fathom (Wish)

Pearlcatcher (Smoke)

Voting ended onApr 9

Been a while since I had a little scry indecision, so I am asking for feedback! I don't have any male Pearlies yet, so the fact I actually really like that scry is notable. (Sadly Smoke doesn't look quite as nice on the Fathom pose)

[shantiyen]

i too wish i could sleep so soundly knowing i ate 2100 gems worth of scatters and had a green hue every time

[shantiyen]

Just finished this soapy lady today and it's so nice to save my gems from going extinct for a suitable UMA for once x)

(Accent is Frozen Aurora by alchem!)

[shantiyen]

should I make a scatter post for this absolutely cursed g1 primal eating my spare gems because I think she deserves some shaming

[shantiyen]

Anyone else have issues getting currency swaps in the big swap post on the forums? I posted in the evening yesterday for a treasure to gem swap, and got completely skipped over :/ It's not the first time this has happened and it's incredibly frustrating because I haven't been able to get gems through art in a while, so this is my only option to get them.