Summerium-Kalimium

Pegasus, Griffon and Rainwing that Reblogs, Draws, Geology and politics. With love from the south of Europe

[bellas-wof-designs]

(To be deleted once all these characters are drawn)

I never posted this here, but this is the headshot concepts I did to make sure all of their colors were relatively homogeneous and enough to make them all look similar but still distinct in little ways. You can see my little freckled/moles headcanon here.

[bellas-wof-designs]

Tsunami

Design Notes Hidden Below…

Simple colors but complicated in the inclusion of all the bioluminescent spots and her wing patterns. (I'm not sure how happy I am with her bio patterns overall, but this is the best I can do without making it something I can never replicate)

Royal Wing talon patterns under her wings

Big arching sail on her neck and base of tail

Cut on the edge of her right wing

Long and low-er to the ground

[acroandy11]

i am a fucking animus dragon

[bellas-wof-designs]

Kinkajou

Design Notes Hidden Below…

She's so bright and yellow

Always kind of wavering between these hues, probably changes her horns between the light pink and dark pink because she can't ever design

Super petite and wiry

Heart motifs everywhere because she's sassy and sweet like lemonade

Very big ears and frills

[bellas-wof-designs]

Clay

Design Notes Hidden Below...

Mr. Cube

Freckle/beauty mark on the left side of his face. This is my fun little design thing to help tie he and his siblings together better!

Very big and bulky, fat, tall. Just a large dragon even for MudWing standards, like if you dragged the corner on an image and resized it.

The dragonbite viper scar is on his left back leg, a mix of burn marks and any of the other treatments used to dissolve and destroy the venom so the leg could be saved at least

His leg hurts chronically now, so when he needs it he wears a custom made leather sling fitted around his back, with a big square cut into the top for the wings to fit through. It fits comfortably with no extra straps because of the support of both his wings, neck, and spikes, and the general tension

Sometimes he puts some cloth in the stirrup of the sling to prevent any chafing because he sometimes moves his foot out of habit and without it, the leg kind of wiggles a little anyways.

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[dunkthebiscuit]

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.

[pencilcat]

Wings of Fire: Darkstalker Graphic Novel releases soon, so here's a quick little doodle to celebrate. It was a fun book to work on, and I hope all the fans enjoy it! 🐉😈

Darkstalker is a fun character to draw, I should do more in the future.

[flawseer]

Wondering, what are your thoughts on the scale of things in Wings of Fire? Like, it's pretty explicit that the dragons are quite big compared to the scavengers, yet it's explicit the rainwings eat and survive exclusively on fruit; there's even a scene in Darkstalker Legends where Darkstalker, Clearsight and Fathom are munching on blueberries of all things, which would probably be the relative size to them of mustard seed to humans. Yet in the Dragonslayer book (I think you've said you didn't read it, but this really isn't a spoiler) the human characters eat the exact same fruits and they seem to be normal sized? Maybe the graphic novels clear this up (I haven't read them) but for my friends and I reading the prose novels as they released, this was a common point of amusement trying to figure out what was going on with these mystery super-fruits.

Let's just say the size relations of different things in the Wings of Fire world are a subject of eldritch lore. It makes things easier.

For instance, you are seemingly correct about fruit being massive. Kinkajou feeds Winter's starving scavenger Bandit with a single blueberry. Pineapple makes mention of bananas growing in large bunches that need to be sawed free with multiple Rainwings. Sunny finds one carrot and shows it to Clay and talks about it like it's significant. The entire resolution of arc 2 relies on a strawberry which is large enough that an enormous dragon like Darkstalker can meaningfully interact with it.

And it's not just the produce either. Animals seem to be super-sized as well. Rainwings keep sloths as pets and they seem to be of a comfortably handle-able size. Winter sees one and thinks "this will be a decent meal" instead of "how can I get full on the equivalent of a single french fry?".

There is a magic hole in the Ice Kingdom you can pull seals from to feed yourself, which makes sense if you assume a seal is about meal-sized compared to a dragon (think of like a nice hamburger), but becomes strange if they retain their size compared to humans. I mean, it still works since the supply is infinite, so you can just pull out 50 of them. But at that point why not pick something of a more comfortable snack size, like a walrus or a small whale?

Moonwatcher catches a goat at one point and it's big enough to feed her and Qibli. The ancient Nightwings knew how to make cheese and thus presumably had cows or another milk animal large enough to milk. Riptide manages to knock himself out by swimming into a whale (could have been a really large whale like a blue whale, but still). Clay releases a flock of chicken and they don't seem to be bug-sized to him. A centipede/bug thing crawls onto Winter's face and is large enough to be noticed. And there are snakes massive enough that their bite can break dragon skin.

To stay sane among all of this chaos, I personally imagine that all fruit, plants, and animals in the setting are sized vaguely relative to the dragons, and then the scavengers are caught in a weird Gulliver's Travels scenario where they are unusually small compared to everything else.

Excerpt from WoF Graphic Novel. Incidentally makes a decent emote.

Anyway, you're right. I have not read Dragonslayer. But if I ever do, it better be about humans having to raise bugs as livestock and fending off man-sized chicken and rabbits while their hunting party returns from the woods with a single papaya that then feeds the entire village. Otherwise I'm going to be severely disappointed. I want them to see a melon and they're just awestruck because they've never seen so much food before. I want there to be joyous weeping in the scavenger streets at the melon feast. Then Coconut comes by and eats it before they can, and he becomes the devil-analogue in their new religion created in the following depression.

Let's not mention that concept art for that once-planned Wings of Fire TV series adaptation where Sunny was smaller than a scavenger. I don't know how to make that fit into this.

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[bellas-wof-designs]

Mulberry

[bellas-wof-designs]

Aurora

Design Notes Hidden Below...

Wanted her wings to be shiny and iridescent kind of like a real aurora

When I draw her brother, I want him to be the same but blue...

Don't ever forget her jewelry!

[bellas-wof-designs]

Platypus

Design Notes Hidden Below...

I was so tickled to be able to draw out what her glow in the dark scales looked like because they were so distinct to me in the book. Glow in the dark, not bioluminescent like SeaWings! So funny

I made her extra prickly

Her face is just like her sister Quokka's; she is also yellow like Quokka, but much less so.

I gave her spurs on her back leg as a reference to the spurs on real life platypusses. Platypi. Platypeese. Platypussies. My god