redraw of some art!!! lots of subtle ways ive improved, think the most important is the art representing my true self vs who i think i want to be!!! demonman and false angel's relationship is very toxic...
While I was reading the book, I had exactly this image of the character, as if he suddenly comes up to you, stares into your soul and mumbles some nonsense…
First of the tutorials I made based on questions from my design account @cywofdesign
I got questions on Instagram about how I utilize shapes / shape language, but that's more difficult to put into words for me. I would love to make some kind of guide for that too in the future.
hands are tricky, one of the parts of dragon drawing that just did not make sense for me until it did
i will absolutely answer any further questions in the comments, and if any of you want personal help you can totally DM me! I'm just chilling and drawing dragons and figuring things out myself, y'know
This is just some general advice: Never share your sweets with Carnelian unless you are prepared to lose all of them.
Headcanon time:
In terms of culinary culture, I imagine Skywings have a strong preference for intense and somewhat bitter flavor profiles. Roasting, charring, and smoking are all very common ways of food preparation up there, and overdoing it is preferable to underdoing it.
If you rolled up in a food wagon in their kingdom and started selling smash burgers... well first you would have a hard time getting the thing up the mountains, but once you're set up, you'd be good for the rest of your life.
On the flipside, very bland or particularly sweet flavors are mostly frowned upon. There is a bit of a stigma among Skywing warriors that sweets are for peacocks and dandies who cannot fight and are only good for squatting in the palace and kissing up to the Queen. While it is acceptable to eat fruit if you're holed up somewhere and it's the only thing you can get, you are expected to make a face and complain about it. If you don't, you will be seen as a fruit-eater, and fruit-eaters make poor warriors.
Carnelian secretly loves sweets (many Skywings do), but pretends that she doesn't because she is young and insecure about her reputation. If you were to leave something sweet where she can get it, she will be tempted to indulge, but only if she thinks she can get away with it undiscovered. Expect furious denial if caught, and threats and insults if you persist in pressing her about it.
Once something sweet has found its way into her mouth, she tends to lose all ability to moderate herself. If it's a beverage, she will drink the entire thing in one gulp, then put as much distance between herself and the empty glass as possible and pretend she is unaware of it.
Carnelian perceives herself as very sly and stealthy about this habit, but Moonwatcher generally notices every time it happens. Kinkajou thinks all of this is extremely funny.
Tangentially related, but Skywings have invented coffee. They habitually roast everything, and coffee is just roasted beans dissolved in water, so this is no big surprise. They tend to drink it black (Kestrel was a big coffee drinker, as was Glory because it helped her stay awake and study longer). An ancient Mudwing minister once greatly offended a visiting Skywing envoy by offering them coffee with cream in it. Of course this nearly resulted in a war.
Okay, I've babbled enough nonsense now, most of which is probably contradicted by the guidebook anyway! Enjoy the comic.
She's very heavily inspired by Jake Parker's design for Quokka, on account of they're sisters and they're described as looking similar in the book. She's also described as being spiky like Taipan, so she's got extra spikes and the same sort of plated underbelly scales. Gave her webbed talons because. Platypus. Since she's supposed to look vaguely similar to Euphoria she gets a Beetle/HiveWing-esque nose spike and horns. In my mind both her and Quokka have fangs because RainWing venom. And of course it wouldn't be Platypus Wings of Fire if she didn't look angry.
Lineart under the cut because it feels like a waste not to include it after spending a bunch of time on making a base for a canon character lolz.
Animated SilkWing and HiveWing flight headcanons! Featuring IRL inspiration from butterflies and dragonflies. Captions under the cut:
SilkWing flight
In Lepidopteran (butterfly and moth) flight, the wings are mechanically coupled and always flap together. The downward stroke of the forewing propels the hindwing. Also, the hindwing aids in aerial maneuverability and generating lift, by contributing to the total surface area of the wing.
HiveWing flight
Inspired by Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) who possess independent control of all four of their wings (made possible by flight muscles attached directly to the wings, versus the thorax). This gives them superior aerial capabilities, including the ability to fly backwards!
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